Johnny Murphy
Also Known As: John Murphy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: October 02, 1943
Deathday: February 22, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Commitments
Overview: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-14
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Waiting for Godot
Overview: Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-04
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Light Years Away
Overview: A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Our Boys
Overview: Mixing classroom dramatization with documentary material, interviews with former students who recall barbaric punishments in the name of learning, and a 1932 newsreel of a triumphant Catholic congress in Dublin, this piece poses a challenging and controversial exploration of the Christian Brothers' education system in the 50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
Overview: An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Overview: Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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The Commitments - Looking Back
Overview: Documentary about the 1991 film
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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War of the Buttons
Overview: War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Angela's Ashes
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Into the West
Overview: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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The Outsider
Overview: Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-02
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Fools of Fortune
Overview: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-20
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Pigs
Overview: A group of unemployed and marginalised souls eke out a meagre living by drawing welfare and occupying a derelict squat in an apocalyptic inner city Dublin. Among the undesirables are a gay man estranged from his wife, a pimp and his prostitute, a destitute businessman, and a paranoiac. The makeshift family soon find themselves subject of intimidation from the State, along with other external forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Katie: The Year of a Child
Overview: Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her father is in England seeking his fortune.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-13
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I Went Down
Overview: Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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