Richard Hayward
Actor
Richard Hayward was an English-born Irish actor, writer, and musician. In the 1930s, he produced and acted in some of the first films made on the island of Ireland. He was also influential in the world of literature and theatre. He was killed in a car accident in 1964.
Movies7
Movie7.7DramaActionThe sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
A Night to Remember
1958 · 304 votes
- Movie8.0CrimeDrama
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.
Irish and Proud of It
1936 · 1 votes
Movie9.0An English spy goes to Jacobite Scotland and falls for the daughter of the family he is staying with. She laments his nationality yet he eventually rescues her from death and they ride off together as lovers. The first Scottish sound film.
Flame in the Heather
1936 · 1 votes
Movie9.0'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)
The Luck of the Irish
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA puritanical woman tries to enforce her rigid views on her Irish home village, Ballytober. She forms the wholesome Uplift League in the village in an attempt to persuade people to reform and accept higher moral standards.
The Early Bird
1936 · 2 votes
Movie7.0A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
Shipmates o' Mine
1936 · 2 votes
Movie9.0Sam, a sheep-driver, arranges a village concert to raise funds for a seaside restaurant, and saves a young girl who is carried out to sea by the current and is stranded on Devil's Rock.
Devil's Rock
1938 · 1 votes