Tony Quinn
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: June 27, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 01, 1967
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I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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No Apologies
Overview: As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Moon in the Yellow River
Overview: Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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The Great Van Robbery
Overview: Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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The Rising of the Moon
Overview: Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-10
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They Got What They Wanted
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-30
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Alive and Kicking
Overview: Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-13
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Song of Paris
Overview: An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-10
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Danny Boy
Overview: A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-25
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The Runaway
Overview: In this espionage film, set just before the Germans invaded France, a chemist in Paris moonlights as a Soviet spy. To escape the Nazi invaders, the chemist and his wife steal government money and try to escape to South America.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Murder Ahoy
Overview: During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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The Unstoppable Man
Overview: Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Undercover Girl
Overview: Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Overview: During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-01
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The Gentle Gunman
Overview: The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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Headline
Overview: A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-16
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Overview: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Ourselves Alone
Overview: One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-27
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Tons of Trouble
Overview: An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Shadow of a Man
Overview: After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Diamond City
Overview: Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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Satellite in the Sky
Overview: A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Satellite in the Sky
Overview: A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Booby Trap
Overview: An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Hungry Hill
Overview: Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Unpublished Story
Overview: Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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Thunder Rock
Overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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The Beachcomber
Overview: Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Boys in Brown
Overview: Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Wanted for Murder
Overview: The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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The Long Dark Hall
Overview: A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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Non-Stop New York
Overview: A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-13
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It's in the Bag
Overview: Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-07
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Read All About It
Overview: An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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Saints and Sinners
Overview: What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Uneasy Terms
Overview: Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-06
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The Man Without a Body
Overview: A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. The business man decides to steal the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Golden Rabbit
Overview: A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him to overcome his nerves and rescue his girlfriend who has been kidnapped to force him to sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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Bernard Shaw
Overview: George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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