
Tony Quinn
Actor · 1899 – 1967 · Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
Tony Quinn was an Irish actor, cinematographer, producer, and director. He was on June 27th, in Nass, County Kildare, Ireland. As an actor, Tony Quinn acted in movies such as Ourselves Alone (1936), in which he portrays Maloney, The Beachcomber (1954) in which he portrays the Captain, Case Study (2007) as Dentist, Gift Horse (1952) portraying McConalog the Bartender, The Story of Esther Costello (1957) as an Irish pub customer), and Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) as character: Joe Cooney. He was married to Rosalind Emma Murray. He died on Thursday, June 1st, 1967 at the age of sixty-eight (68) in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Movie5.4DramaScience FictionA bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Satellite in the Sky
1956 · 21 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCrimeA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · 299 votes
Movie7.1DramaThrillerDuring an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Murder Ahoy
1964 · 161 votes
Movie5.2CrimeInterpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaA man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
The Last Man to Hang
1956 · 8 votes
Movie6.5DramaThrillerProud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
I See a Dark Stranger
1946 · 26 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaThree vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
The Rising of the Moon
1957 · 22 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaA devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
The Long Dark Hall
1951 · 10 votes
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An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Read All About It
1945 · 9 votes
Movie4.2HorrorScience FictionLearning that he has a brain tumor, wealthy businessman Karl Brussard seeks medical help, finding a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. Brussard steals the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
The Man Without a Body
1957 · 9 votes
Movie5.4CrimeNightclub employee Joan Foster assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Undercover Girl
1958 · 6 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeA young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Non-Stop New York
1937 · 12 votes
Movie8.0ActionCrimeMitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
The Unstoppable Man
1961 · 1 votes
Movie7.2MysteryDuring a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939 · 12 votes
Movie7.1ComedyThree elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Alive and Kicking
1959 · 7 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaThe son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Wanted for Murder
1946 · 34 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
High Treason
1951 · 11 votes
Movie5.8DramaLife becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Hungry Hill
1947 · 6 votes
Movie6.2CrimeJackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Boys in Brown
1949 · 12 votes
Movie5.8CrimeDramaAn absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Booby Trap
1957 · 4 votes
Movie7.8ComedyAn archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Song of Paris
1952 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerDramaThe relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
The Gentle Gunman
1952 · 13 votes
- Movie5.7Comedy
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
It's in the Bag
1944 · 7 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarMorale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Unpublished Story
1942 · 7 votes
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TV8.0CrimeDramaA half-hour 1950s detective television series that took different forms and titles during its run. From October 1951 to June 1954, ABC Mystery Theater stars Tom Conway as the titular character, a plainclothes English detective working with the NYPD Homicide Division. The Vise (seasons 1–4): Donald Gray portrays Saber as a one-armed private detective based in London. Broadcast on ABC from October 1954 to June 1957. Saber of London (seasons 5–7): Gray reprises his role in this final iteration, broadcast on NBC from September 1957 to May 1960.
Mark Saber
1954 · 2 votes
TV7.0Action & AdventureThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956 · 5 votes
TV6.5Action & AdventureDramaThe Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. Produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment, the series ran for 13 one-hour monochrome episodes. Some episodes were edited into a 1962 feature film Our Man in the Caribbean. Argentinian Carlos Varela is a successful import-export agent based in London, whose company takes him into unusual and sometimes dangerous situations. Impeccably dressed, cigar smoking and using wit, ingenuity, and charm, which often involves a damsel in distress, he is typically assisted by Chin, a resourceful Chinese manservant, and Miss Carter, an ultra-efficient secretary.
The Sentimental Agent
1963 · 4 votes
TV7.1DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
Quatermass and the Pit
1958 · 24 votes
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Charlesworth is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC in 1959. A police procedural, it starred Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth, with Tony Church as Detective Sergeant Spence. It followed on from the previous year's Charlesworth at Large.
Charlesworth
1959 · 1 votes
TVDramaA docudrama loosely based on real events. In 1972, an 8 game ice hockey series is arranged where Canadian pro stars of the National Hockey League play the the Soviet Union national team. Tho most Canadian fans were convinced that the Soviets would be no match for the pros, what followed was a bitter struggle as Team Canada faught to win a series that would change Canadian hockey's history forever.