Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

Birthday: 1910-11-26

Place of Birth: Durban, Natal, South Africa

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyril Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

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All the Way Boys
All the Way Boys

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for i...

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Les Misérables
Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

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Where the Spies Are
Where the Spies Are

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd...

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The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...

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Far and Away
Far and Away

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they...

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The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to per...

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True Confessions
True Confessions

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute....

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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in P...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brot...

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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an...

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The Secret of Convict Lake
The Secret of Convict Lake

After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the...

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Escape
Escape

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a l...

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King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of t...

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Waltz of the Toreadors
Waltz of the Toreadors

General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and s...

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Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery....

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The Man Who Never Was
The Man Who Never Was

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the ...

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Gideon's Day
Gideon's Day

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-vi...

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The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...

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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...

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Sacco & Vanzetti
Sacco & Vanzetti

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried...

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Danny the Champion of the World
Danny the Champion of the World

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life toget...

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Ill Met by Moonlight
Ill Met by Moonlight

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle...

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Floods of Fear
Floods of Fear

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress....

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Gone to Earth
Gone to Earth

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in part...

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Execution Squad
Execution Squad

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt...

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I Thank a Fool
I Thank a Fool

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license a...

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The Comedy of Errors
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 Homecoming
The Homecoming

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor v...

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The Spanish Gardener
The Spanish Gardener

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small c...

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The Man in the Road
The Man in the Road

A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret f...

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The Ballad of Tam Lin
The Ballad of Tam Lin

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorc...

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Lovespell
Lovespell

Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde....

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Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love

Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor t...

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The Blue Veil
The Blue Veil

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse....

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David Copperfield
David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

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Once a Crook
Once a Crook

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Syd...

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Esther Waters
Esther Waters

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William...

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Galileo
Galileo

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un...

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The Elusive Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine....

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Soldiers Three
Soldiers Three

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India....

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The Rising of the Moon
The Rising of the Moon

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of th...

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Andrina
Andrina

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young...

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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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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (G...

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Knocknagow
Knocknagow

The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land tha...

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The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a...

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Miracle in Soho
Miracle in Soho

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, wit...

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As You Like It
As You Like It

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguis...

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All Over the Town
All Over the Town

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. ...

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Passage Home
Passage Home

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...

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The Fool
The Fool

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper ...

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80,000 Suspects
80,000 Suspects

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a ...

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Run, Run, Joe!
Run, Run, Joe!

When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must ...

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The Italian Connection
The Italian Connection

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is frame...

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I Was Happy Here
I Was Happy Here

Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor ...

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The Balloon Vendor
The Balloon Vendor

A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father....

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Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. ...

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Horowitz in Dublin
Horowitz in Dublin

A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young w...

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

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A Passage to India
A Passage to India

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month stran...

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W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
W. B. Yeats: A Tribute

Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produc...

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Jacqueline
Jacqueline

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised...

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The Outcasts
The Outcasts

In pre-famine Ireland, when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a mag...

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Cry of the Innocent
Cry of the Innocent

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their ...

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The Ballroom of Romance
The Ballroom of Romance

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom....

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The Abdication
The Abdication

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church....

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The March Hare
The March Hare

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the hors...

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Don Juan in Hell
Don Juan in Hell

The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode dep...

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The Tenth Man
The Tenth Man

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation...

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Saadia
Saadia

Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful o...

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The Kingfisher
The Kingfisher

An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years....

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Cradle of Genius
Cradle of Genius

Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the nation...

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The Wedding Dress
The Wedding Dress

Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset....

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Poet Game
Poet Game

Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, tryi...

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Juggernaut
Juggernaut

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he ha...

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Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own f...

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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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Children of Rage
Children of Rage

The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the ch...

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Don Camillo
Don Camillo

A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together....

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The Ghost Downstairs
The Ghost Downstairs

British TV-Drama...

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The Bloody Hands of the Law
The Bloody Hands of the Law

When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate c...

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Rainy Day Women
Rainy Day Women

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controv...

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The Catholics
The Catholics

Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholi...

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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that th...

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Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder

A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film....

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The Man with the Power
The Man with the Power

Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian wil...

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Guests of The Nation
Guests of The Nation

During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two Britis...

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Poitín
Poitín

A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in t...

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Memento Mori
Memento Mori

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph...

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Once Upon a Tram
Once Upon a Tram

Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city w...

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A Terrible Beauty
A Terrible Beauty

In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O...

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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta...

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Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Fischer of Geneva

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man e...

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Once a Jolly Swagman
Once a Jolly Swagman

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer....

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The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Sea...

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The Hands of Cormac Joyce
The Hands of Cormac Joyce

A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village....

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The Monkey's Paw
The Monkey's Paw

An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange ...

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Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'

An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)...

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Fear in the City
Fear in the City

The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull o...

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