David Kelly

David Kelly

July 11, 1929 · 97 years old

David Kelly (July 11, 1929 – February 12, 2012) was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, Kelly was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin End…

Known For

16 titles
1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005 · 1h 55m · Movie

Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

6.7
2
Mean Machine

Mean Machine

2001 · 1h 39m · Movie

A football star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.

6.4
3
Waking Ned Devine

Waking Ned Devine

1998 · 1h 31m · Movie

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

7.3
4
Laws of Attraction

Laws of Attraction

2004 · 1h 30m · Movie

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

5.9
5
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

2004 · 1h 40m · Movie

With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

4.5
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Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ordinary Decent Criminal

2000 · 1h 33m · Movie

Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.

6.3
7
Pirates

Pirates

1986 · 2h 1m · Movie

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

6.0
8
Greenfingers

Greenfingers

2001 · 1h 31m · Movie

A prison inmate with a green thumb goes on to compete in a national gardening competition. Based on a true story.

6.8
9
Into the West

Into the West

1992 · 1h 37m · Movie

Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.

7.0
10
The Jigsaw Man

The Jigsaw Man

1983 · 1h 34m · Movie

An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.

5.1
11
Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes

1964 · 1h 31m · Movie

In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still-married landowner.

6.9
12
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1982 · 1h 42m · Movie

Disfigured man Quasimodo (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is feared and tormented by the townspeople of Notre Dame, but he has a sensitive nature of which few are aware.

6.3
13
A Man of No Importance

A Man of No Importance

1994 · 1h 39m · Movie

A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.

6.7
14
The Run of the Country

The Run of the Country

1995 · 1h 49m · Movie

In a small village on the border of Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland, the relationship between a short tempered policeman and his rebellious son becomes even more strenuous when the young man falls for a "wrong" girl.

6.2
15
Moondance

Moondance

1995 · 1h 32m · Movie

30ish Patrick and teenage Dominic are two brothers living alone in a remote farmhouse in the Southwest of Ireland, while their mother is away traveling. When their aunt comes visiting, with her arrives Anya, a young woman from Ger...

6.0
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Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

1975 · 1h 35m · Movie

Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).

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