David Kelly
Birthday: 1929-07-11
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Biography: 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 Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned Devine.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the worl...
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Waking Ned
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money....
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Billy Budd
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...
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Joyriders
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars....
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The Matchmaker
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a...
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Into the West
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coo...
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Greenfingers
Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts ...
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Mean Machine
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting...
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The Kovak Box
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his chara...
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Girl with Green Eyes
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice h...
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Moondance
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitiv...
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The Wrong Man
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mista...
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The Purple Taxi
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of th...
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Mystics
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead....
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Rough for Theatre I
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter ...
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The Run of the Country
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family....
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Stardust
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that h...
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A Man of No Importance
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quie...
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of th...
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The Calcium Kid
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action,...
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The Jigsaw Man
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plas...
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Young Man in Trouble
A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise....
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The Virgins
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryde...
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Ant...
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The Last
A short film about a shoemaker who pledged his fiancé he would make her the most beautiful pair of s...
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The McKenzie Break
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland....
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: t...
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The Italian Job
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a hig...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge e...
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Ulysses
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering...
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Red Monarch
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampan...
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Puckoon
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen....
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmer...
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The Light Princess
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness....
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The Quare Fellow
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, d...
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Anne Devlin
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, ...
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The Comedy of Errors
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and m...
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The Legion Hall Bombing
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in...
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Laws of Attraction
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love....
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Fugitive
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too mu...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him...
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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican....
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Dublin Nightmare
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are lef...
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The Next Man
Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state ...
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker, however, Hell is just the beginning. ...
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Gaybo Laughs Back
Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy hig...
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The Statue and the Rose
The love affair of Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell with a married woman, Kather...
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