Known for Art
John Paul Kelly is an Irish production designer, known for his critically acclaimed work on 'A Haunting in Venice', 'The Theory of Everything', 'Stan and Ollie' and 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. JP has won a number of awards for his work having designed a wide variety of feature film and television productions.
Born
January 6, 1969 (age 57)
Birthplace
Dublin, Ireland
Filmography
28 films, 3 shows


A Haunting in Venice
2023 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.


Persuasion
2022 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.


Operation Mincemeat
2022 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.


Blithe Spirit
2020 · 1h 39m
country: Australia
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.


Blackbird
2019 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.


Stan & Ollie
2018 · 1h 38m
country: Canada
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public


Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · 2h 3m
country: France
After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.


The Theory of Everything
2014 · 2h 3m
country: United Kingdom
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.


About Time
2013 · 2h 3m
country: United Kingdom
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.


360
2012 · 1h 50m
country: Austria
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.


The Guard
2011 · 1h 36m
country: Ireland
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.


A Number
2008 · 1h 13m
country: Unknown
A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.


The Other Boleyn Girl
2008 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.


Venus
2006 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.


Lassie
2005 · 1h 40m
country: France
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.


A Cock and Bull Story
2005 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.


Enduring Love
2004 · 1h 40m
country: France
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...


I Capture the Castle
2003 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a decaying English castle.


Bloody Sunday
2002 · 1h 47m
country: Ireland
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.


Secret Society
2000 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.


The Last Yellow
1999 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.


TwentyFourSeven
1998 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.


Under the Skin
1997 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.


The Spy Who Caught a Cold
1995 · 11m
country: United Kingdom
Ten-year-old Clossie is having the worst holiday of her life – dragged to a seaside naturist resort by her fun-loving single mother. When Mum starts flirting with a fishmonger called Nick, there’s nothing for it but her to tail them with binoculars to try and unravel the adult mysteries of attraction.


The Clearing
1994 · 7m
country: United Kingdom
In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.


The Token King
1993 · 55m
country: United Kingdom
Pupils Vicky and Paul are operating a lucrative business trading school dinner tokens. It started well but can it continue that way?