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T. P. McKenna

T. P. McKenna

Birthday: 1929-09-07

Place of Birth: Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland

Biography: Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.

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Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...

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Villain
Villain

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the ...

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Red Scorpion
Red Scorpion

A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his...

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Percy's Progress
Percy's Progress

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the wo...

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Girl with Green Eyes
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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The Beast in the Cellar
The Beast in the Cellar

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sist...

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Perfect Friday
Perfect Friday

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he beco...

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Ferry Cross the Mersey
Ferry Cross the Mersey

Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through th...

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Beasts: Baby
Beasts: Baby

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their ...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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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Young Cassidy
Young Cassidy

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restr...

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Ulysses
Ulysses

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering...

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Deirdre
Deirdre

The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier lite...

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The Rivals
The Rivals

The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan....

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Monarch
Monarch

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

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Freedom to Die
Freedom to Die

Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valua...

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Random Moments in a May Garden
Random Moments in a May Garden

A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another gr...

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Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 ...

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Blood of the Lamb
Blood of the Lamb

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, th...

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Events at Drimaghleen
Events at Drimaghleen

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begu...

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Anne of the Thousand Days
Anne of the Thousand Days

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,...

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The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, ...

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A Warm December
A Warm December

Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there,...

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Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding

Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set again...

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Crimes
Crimes

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, fou...

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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score...

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Unreported Incident
Unreported Incident

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish bor...

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Exposure
Exposure

Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three sur...

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A Child's Voice
A Child's Voice

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange ...

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Downfall
Downfall

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young...

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The Siege of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street

A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) ...

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The Fifth Day of Peace
The Fifth Day of Peace

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW c...

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Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine

TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new mi...

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The Law Lord
The Law Lord

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secre...

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Valmont
Valmont

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recen...

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The Scarlet and the Black
The Scarlet and the Black

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped pris...

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The Changeling
The Changeling

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautifu...

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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, ...

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Pascali's Island
Pascali's Island

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are...

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Longitude
Longitude

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate gr...

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Silver Dream Racer
Silver Dream Racer

Nick Freeman is a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...

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All Creatures Great and Small
All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of S...

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Memed My Hawk
Memed My Hawk

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in ma...

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The Libertine
The Libertine

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and d...

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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
The Boys & Girl from County Clare

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a mu...

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Percy
Percy

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors ...

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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the appa...

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The Outsider
The Outsider

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to...

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The Quare Fellow
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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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."...

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Stones
Stones

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem...

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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...

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Moving on the Edge
Moving on the Edge

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family....

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Pasmore
Pasmore

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagin...

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Lady Killer
Lady Killer

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware t...

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The Next Victim
The Next Victim

A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer....

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Deasey (Desperate)
Deasey (Desperate)

Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a ...

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The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work
The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work

Produced by Ireland's National Television with the assistance of Richard Ellmann, the program was sh...

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Johnny Nobody
Johnny Nobody

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Iris...

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The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree

A dying woman recalls the happier days of her past....

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