Richard Dormer
Also Known As: ریچارد دورمر
Biography: Richard Dormer is a Northern Irish actor, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. After to being accepted to the Royal College of Art Richard accepted a scholarship at the RADA school of acting in London. After living and working in London, he returned to Northern Ireland. He lives in Belfast and is married to director Rachel O'Riordan. Dormer is perhaps best known for his performance as Northern Irish Snooker star, Alex Higgins in Hurricane, which he wrote and starred in. The production received praise from critics and even from Higgins himself and saw Richard win The Stage award for best actor in 2003. He is currently the bookie's third favourite to play Higgins in the scheduled film of his life behind Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2004 Richard won the Irish Times Best Actor Award for his performance in Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and in 2005 completed a season with Sir Peter Hall at the Theatre Royal and performed Bath in the George Bernard Shaw play, You Can Never Tell, William Shakespeare's,Much Ado About Nothing, Noël Coward's play, Private Lives, and in a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Since, Dormer has written a number of plays including The Half and Gentleman's Tea Drinking Society which were produced through Belfast's Ransom theatre company. He has also provided the voices for over twenty BBC Radio 4 plays, documentaries and advertising campaigns. Following a run of film castings playing secondary characters, he was cast as the lead in the 2012 Good Vibrations which tells the story of Northern Ireland personality and punk rock visionary Terri Hooley. The film premièred at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded 'best film' at the Galway film awards. 2012 also saw Dormer taking over the role of Lord Beric Dondarrion, known as the "Lightning Lord", the leader of the "Brotherhood Without Banners" for Season 3 of HBO series Game of Thrones.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Birthday: November 11, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Ghost Machine
Overview: Two technicians battle a vengeful spirit that has infected their stolen military software.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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Jump
Overview: The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of Derry, Northern Ireland, in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. Johnny, a small-time crook, and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant, are both looking for a fresh start. Greta is on the verge of taking her own life and Pearse has a bounty on his head for asking difficult questions about his missing brother Eddie Kelly. As the clock ticks down to midnight and the night's events expertly fall into place, Jump weaves an existential portrait of the characters' lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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Good Vibrations
Overview: The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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SLR
Overview: SLR is a short thriller about a man obsessed with "voyeur pornography". When he makes a shocking discovery online, he is forced onto the trail of an anonymous photographer known only by his user name of ANORAK.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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Hyena
Overview: Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Shooting for Socrates
Overview: Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also follows the lives of passionate football supporter Arthur and his son Tommy from East Belfast. The lead up to a momentous day in the life of a young boy (his 10th birthday) mirrors the build up to the big day for the Northern Ireland football team as they play the greatest match of their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-11
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Dark Touch
Overview: Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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'71
Overview: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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11 Minutes
Overview: The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
Overview: Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-22
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My Boy Jack
Overview: Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-11
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Pumpgirl
Overview: The dark story of three people who become playthings of the devil: a man, Shawshank, human enough but with a glee for spoiling people’s lives. There’s what looks at first like a normal sexual triangle: a girl, Pumpgirl, who works in the local garage and thinks she’s one of the lads; a freewheeling jack-the-lad, Hammy, who’s in love with no-one but himself; and a woman, Sinead, neglected, lonely, out looking for a joyride of her own. Three people, one night; a night of sex and violence, resulting in consequences - and not just for them alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-02
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Overview: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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Wodehouse In Exile
Overview: An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-25
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Best: His Mother's Son
Overview: Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
Overview: The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true extent of the clerical abuse scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-13
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Overview: Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs. Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-08
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The Mighty Celt
Overview: Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal's mother, Kate, must adjust her life when O, a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-11
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Holy Cross
Overview: Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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Middletown
Overview: An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Puckoon
Overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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Scapegoat
Overview: This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: This musical celebration charts the lives and careers of some of the biggest selling acts in Irish rock, punk and pop from Van Morrison and Thin Lizzy to The Undertones and U2. From the pioneers of the showbands touring in the late 50s through to the modern day, the film examines their lineage and connections and how the hardcore, rocking sound of Belfast merged with the more melodic, folky Dublin tradition to form what we now recognise as Irish rock and pop.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Togo
Overview: The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-20
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A Further Gesture
Overview: Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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