Stanley Townsend

Stanley Townsend

August 20, 1961 · 65 years old

Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He…

Known For

22 titles
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Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016 · 1h 51m · Movie

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

6.6
2
What a Girl Wants

What a Girl Wants

2003 · 1h 45m · Movie

An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.

5.8
3
The Voices

The Voices

2014 · 1h 43m · Movie

A likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.

6.3
4
The Current War

The Current War

2018 · 1h 42m · Movie

The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

6.4
5
The Physician

The Physician

2013 · 2h 35m · Movie

In 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

7.2
6
Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky

2008 · 1h 58m · Movie

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

7.0
7
The Libertine

The Libertine

2004 · 1h 54m · Movie

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

6.2
8
Flawless

Flawless

2007 · 1h 48m · Movie

In 1960s London, an elderly janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.

6.7
9
Rory O'Shea Was Here

Rory O'Shea Was Here

2004 · 1h 44m · Movie

When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintellig...

7.7
10
The Regime

The Regime

2024 · 50m · TV Show

A year in the palace of the chancellor of a modern European authoritarian regime on the verge of collapse.

6.0
11
One Chance

One Chance

2013 · 1h 43m · Movie

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007).

6.8
12
The Nativity Story

The Nativity Story

2006 · 1h 41m · Movie

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

6.8
13
Killing Bono

Killing Bono

2011 · 1h 54m · Movie

Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.

6.4
14
The Song of Names

The Song of Names

2019 · 1h 53m · Movie

Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.

6.5
15
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

2019 · 1h 35m · Movie

On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.

6.0
16
Burton and Taylor

Burton and Taylor

2013 · 1h 23m · Movie

Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

6.4
17
Blackshore

Blackshore

2025 · TV Show

A police detective returns to her home town and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark history.

6.8
18
Standby

Standby

2014 · 1h 30m · Movie

Twentysomething Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. It's there he comes face...

5.8
19
Monsieur N.

Monsieur N.

2003 · 2h 0m · Movie

How could Napoleon, the man of war and pioneering military strategist, meekly accept being locked up on a storm-lashed rock in the middle of the Atlantic ocean? What system of defence, and thus of attack, can he dream up to loosen...

6.5
20
Hilde

Hilde

2009 · 2h 17m · Movie

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

6.7
21
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

2026 · 1h 32m · Movie

A beleaguered cinema owner's worst Friday night becomes his crowning moment of glory when a packed show descends into chaos and unites the community. Told in real-time during the movie playing ('Breathless' starring Richard Gere).

6.7
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King Lear

King Lear

2014 · 3h 30m · Movie

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

7.9