Dan O'Herlihy
Birthday: 1919-05-01
Place of Birth: Wexford, Ireland
Biography: Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005) was an Irish film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Marshal Ney in Waterloo, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1954 film Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
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Fail Safe
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, clutching the y...
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RoboCop
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from...
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RoboCop 2
After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacifi...
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The Black Shield of Falworth
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, ...
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The Last Starfighter
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video ...
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler....
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Larceny
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi...
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Imitation of Life
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black...
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Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter
Starring Dan O Herlihy as Mark Twain, this PBS special was created by renowned Twain scholars....
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Macbeth
Three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, ...
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate....
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100 Rifles
When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fle...
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The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo...
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Odd Man Out
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery....
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Invasion, U.S.A.
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union....
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The Young Land
An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war....
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The Dead
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some...
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The Tamarind Seed
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian age...
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The Big Cube
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in ...
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The Carey Treatment
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge....
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Love, Cheat & Steal
Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's...
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Robinson Crusoe
An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal...
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That Woman Opposite
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice La...
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Actors and Sin
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigge...
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Home Before Dark
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital....
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Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil ...
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The Cabinet of Caligari
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman....
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The Purple Mask
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpern...
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler o...
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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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At Sword's Point
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is ...
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One Foot in Hell
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medici...
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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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Bengal Brigade
Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. F...
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MacArthur
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...
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The Quest: The Longest Drive
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd...
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Operation Secret
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder a...
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Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Ran...
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Waterloo
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...
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Deadly Game
A military convoy is transporting something apparently for disposal. They pass by Sheriff Abel Marsh...
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The People
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secre...
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The Whoopee Boys
Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sn...
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A Waltz Through the Hills
When Sammy Dean and her older brother Andy are suddenly orphaned, they fear that they will be separa...
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Death Ray 2000
A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retri...
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Good Against Evil
Dack Rambo and Elyssa Davalos star as sweethearts Andy Stuart and Jessica Gordon. The course of true...
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Dark Mansions
A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family's estate in Oregon. She d...
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The Iroquois Trail
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French...
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Artemis '81
Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by ...
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Hungry Hill
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune....
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Sword of Venus
An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and stea...
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Hunters of the Deep
Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and M...
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The Rat Pack
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's mai...
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Cloo...
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Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
A traveling horse trader and his young nephew travel the west in search of the boy's prize Arabian h...
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Buñuel in Hollywood
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program ...
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The Blackwell Story
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor....
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How to Steal the World
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world....
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