James Ellis
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1931-03-15
Locus Natus: Belfast, Ireland
Et ut:
Conspiracy of Silence
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken...
release : 2003.05.15popularis : 1.577
The Long March
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 2.372
The Near Room
Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together...
release : 1997.04.11popularis : 5.912
The Glory Hole
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.
release : 1982.08.10popularis : 1.965
Priest
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon...
release : 1995.03.24popularis : 21.037
High Rise Donkey
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 2.798
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family -...
release : 1984.02.21popularis : 1.171
A Matter of Choice for Billy
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger...
release : 1983.05.10popularis : 2.663
Mark of the Devil
A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on...
release : 1984.09.05popularis : 1.794
Doctor Who: Battlefield
Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace, with the assistance of Brigadier...
release : 1989.09.27popularis : 0.718
No Surrender
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and...
release : 1985.09.11popularis : 4.803
Leapin' Leprechauns
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.
release : 1995.07.26popularis : 2.024
Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of...
release : 1996.10.19popularis : 1.711
Crossing the Floor
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...
release : 1996.10.05popularis : 2.274
Shadow of a Gunman
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men,...
release : 1995.10.07popularis : 0.931
Too Late to Talk to Billy
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.
release : 1982.02.16popularis : 0.883
Lorna
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna...
release : 1987.06.02popularis : 1.994
Resurrection Man
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A...
release : 1998.02.13popularis : 3.576
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
release : 2007.07.02popularis : 1.973
The Precious Blood
Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by...
release : 1996.06.08popularis : 2.178
Naming the Names
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
release : 1987.02.08popularis : 2.115