
Conor McDermottroe
Actor · b. 1960 · Sligo Town - County Sligo - Ireland
Since 1979 Conor has worked in a variety of roles in Theatre, Film and Television. He started as an ASM for the Irish Theatre Company and quickly moved to acting including the Abbey, the Gate and touring the UK. Conor spent ten years in Australia, primarily acting in Film and Television, however, he also co-wrote and developed a feature film screenplay and directed two plays. Returned to Ireland to work with the Druid Theatre Co in 1991. Three years at the Abbey Theatre and other theatre companies in Dublin. Irish Film and Television work from 94 to 97. Worked at the Royal National Theatre London in 1998. In 1999 Conor formed Benrae Productions Ltd, and is writing, directing and producing film, television and theatre projects.
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Movie6.7WesternAmerican Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
Quigley Down Under
1990 · 443 votes
Movie6.7HistoryDramaIn Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.
Jimmy's Hall
2014 · 211 votes
Movie5.4AdventureDramaUnderrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his romantic rival, a dashing but dangerous cattleman, but also with a villainous creditor who craves the land left to Bergen by her late father. By nature of its plotline and setting, Wrangler can't help but invite comparisons to the popular The Man From Snowy River. Still, the stars and director Ian Barry keep up the appearances of freshness and originality
Minnamurra
1989 · 9 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeA raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Intermission
2003 · 180 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceMarcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
The Matchmaker
1997 · 52 votes
Movie8.5ThrillerCrimeCriminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
Vicious Circle
1999 · 2 votes
Movie5.2ActionThrillerA story of youthful misadventure set against the backdrop of a lawless border terrain during the last gasps of the Irish boom.
Black Ice
2013 · 3 votes
Movie5.0ActionCrimeEve flees to Australia with daughter Chrissie when Riley, her ex-lover, resurfaces. Two IRA men hunting Riley for shooting their comrade join forces with a vengeful biker Eve wronged. All paths converge in Barossa Valley.
Run Chrissie Run!
1986 · 6 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaAfter spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.
Coney Island Baby
2002 · 1 votes
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TV6.9DramaAction & AdventureBugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
Bugs
1995 · 18 votes
TV5.2DramaAction & AdventureThe Henderson Kids is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.
The Henderson Kids
1985 · 5 votes
TV10.0DramaAt the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thriving river boat trade. While trying to mediate in the dispute between the shearers and the riverboat skippers, Brenton Edwards is framed and sentenced to imprisonment in Melbourne. Without Brenton, Delie is faced with a custody battle over her children and the not altogether unwanted attentions of Cyrus James, a charming, but mysterious overseas entrepreneur. Alone she must fight to keep her family and the riverboat "Philadelphia".
All The Rivers Run II
1990 · 1 votes
TV7.7CrimeDramaOn 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in untraceable cash. The robbery had been so brilliantly planned and executed that police were left without a single clue–and so strict was the robbers’ code of silence that not even the underworld was aware of their identities.
The Great Bookie Robbery
1986 · 3 votes
- TV9.0Crime
DDU is a serial police drama that was first aired on RTÉ in 1997 as "Making the Cut" and ran for 8 episodes. It starred Sean McGinley.
DDU: District Detective Unit
1999 · 1 votes