Known for Acting
Milo Donal O'Shea was an Irish actor. He received nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his breakthrough role in Ulysses (1967), and was twice nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play for his performances in Broadway productions of Staircase (1968) and Mass Appeal (1982).
Born
June 2, 1926
Died
April 2, 2013 (age 86)
Birthplace
Dublin, Irish Free State
Filmography
58 films, 36 shows


Mystics
2003 · 1h 30m
country: Ireland
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.


Puckoon
2002 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.


Rough for Theatre I
2000 · 17m
country: Ireland
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.


Swing Vote
1999 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.


The Butcher Boy
1998 · 1h 50m
country: Ireland
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.


The Matchmaker
1997 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.


The Playboys
1992 · 1h 57m
country: Ireland
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).


Only the Lonely
1991 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.


Opportunity Knocks
1990 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.


The Dream Team
1989 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.


Angel in Green
1987 · 1h 36m
country: New Zealand
While a group of Special Forces train a village to defend itself against Terrorists, the Captain of the group locks horns with the resident America Nun, who seems to be slightly better at everything that he is good at.


Broken Vows
1987 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the deceased man. Father Joseph and the woman, whom he discovers to be the "Nim" in question, embark upon an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man's death.


Once a Hero
1987 · 1h 14m
country: United States
In a world gone mad, one man lives to turn wrong to right, bad to good, and despicable to black-and-blue. One man lives to beat back the forces of evil with a legendary arsenal of superpowers. One man lives to kiss the babies, impress the ladies, and make grown men weep. He is Captain Justice, and this is his story. The Cicero Gang, the dregs of society, a vicious pack of power-hungry psychopaths, has taken Captain Justice's number one fan, Woody, and his mom hostage. Once again, evil reigns and innocent lives lay in danger. Can anyone survive? Is this really curtains for rosy cheeks, bubble gum and mom's apple pie? But wait! What is that speck on the horizon, blasting through the Forbidden Zone like a rocket? It's a force beyond the imagination. The man, the myth, the ultimate comic book superhero - it's Captain Justice, speeding towards perilous adventure and various acts of bravery. 74-minute movie is an assembly edit of various episodes from the TV show.


The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.


Arena
1985 · 58m
country: Unknown
Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s popularity. Mistaking the cries of teenage girls at crowded concerts for devotees screaming his name, the Doctor makes his way to Earth so he can lead his faithful masses. Once he discovers the kids don't want an evil Doctor, he goes about trying to destroy the source of the real desires a rock concert taking place at the Oakland (Calif.) Colesium.


The Verdict
1982 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.


A Time for Miracles
1980 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.


The Pilot
1980 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.


Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.


Arabian Adventure
1979 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
An evil caliph offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan has to overcome genies, fire-breathing monsters, and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira.


That's Carry On!
1977 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.


Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.


Circasia
1976 · 11m
country: Ireland
Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.


Percy's Progress
1974 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.


Professor Popper's Problems
1974 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's not the only problem that faces the professor and his friends.
Magic Powder
Magic Powder
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an a ntidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Follow That Skate
Follow That Skate
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Pursued
Pursued
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Monster
Monster
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Descent to Danger
Descent to Danger
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown
1974
country: United Kingdom
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks


Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1973 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!


Steptoe & Son Ride Again
1973 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.


Theatre of Blood
1973 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.


And No One Could Save Her
1973 · 1h 13m
country: United Kingdom
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.


The Love Ban
1973 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.


Sacco & Vanzetti
1971 · 2h 5m
country: France
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.


The Angel Levine
1970 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?


Loot
1970 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.


Paddy
1970 · 1h 37m
country: Ireland
An Irish lover tries to juggle varied sexual encounters with uninspired home life in ordinary comedy-drama.


The Adding Machine
1969 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.


Something in the Cellar
1969 · 50m
country: United Kingdom
Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.


Barbarella
1968 · 1h 38m
country: France
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.


Romeo and Juliet
1968 · 2h 18m
country: Italy
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.


Journey Into Darkness
1968 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown 1968)": 'The New People (1968)" (Episode 1.1) and "Paper Dolls (1968)" (Episode 1.16).


Our World
1967 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
Various international presentions are featured through satellite uplink.


Ulysses
1967 · 2h 12m
country: Ireland
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.


Silent Song
1966 · 1h
country: Unknown
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.


Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
1965 · 1h
country: United Kingdom
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby, with an attention to detail closer to obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?


Bloomsday
1964 · 2h 17m
country: Unknown
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.


Never Put It in Writing
1964 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
An executive, passed over for a promotion, sends an angry letter to his bosses while in Ireland. Learning he's up for a better job, he rushes to retrieve the letter.


Carry On Cabby
1963 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!


Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
Two convicts escape from prison, complicating life for their widowed mother when they return home to hide out.
Night School
Night School
1960 · 1h
country: United Kingdom
The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant.


This Other Eden
1959 · 1h 20m
country: Ireland
A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.


Rooney
1958 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.


Talk of a Million
1951 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!


Contraband
1940 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.