David Kelly Filmography

Kovak Box

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lucia Jimenez, David Kelly, Gary Piquer, Georgia Mackenzie

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, Made in Heaven) stars in the direct-to-video psychological thriller The Kovak Box. He portrays David Norton, a novelist and control freak who builds his life around the strategic manipulation of his characters and storylines. But suddenly, Norton watches his own Read More

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Actors: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: Director Tim Burton brings his unique vision and sensibility to Roald Dahl's classic children's story in this lavish screen interpretation. Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) is the secretive and wildly imaginative man behind the world's most celebrated candy company, and while the Wonka factory is Read More

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old CIA operative Cody Banks (played by Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz) is back in action in this comedy adventure, which sends the youthful secret agent to Old Blighty. Banks returns to Kamp Woody, the CIA training center disguised as a summer camp, where he's given a new Read More

The Calcium Kid

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Omid Djalili, Michael Peña, Michael Lerner, Tamer Hassan

Texas

Actors: Garth Adam, Billy Dean Cochran, Russell Crowe, David Kelly, Stewart Kirwin

Synopsis: 30 Odd Foot of Grunts are a meat-and-potatoes roots rock band from Australia who haven't quite reached the pinnacle of international stardom just yet. As a result, several of the members have day jobs to help pay the rent when they're not busy playing music. The lead singer has done just a bit Read More

Puckoon

Actors: Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, Daragh O'Malley, John Lynch, Griff Rhys Jones

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Irish comedian Spike Milligan, Puckoon is a political satire about a town cut in half by the partitioning of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1924. The action takes place in a town known as Puckoon where an ordinary fellow named Dan Madigan wakes up Read More

Greenfingers

Actors: Clive Owen, David Kelly, Helen Mirren, Natasha Little, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer

Synopsis: A fish-out-of-water comedy in the vein of 1997's oft-imitated The Full Monty, Greenfingers takes as its inspiration the true story of a group of British criminals who bettered themselves through the delicate art of gardening. Croupier's Clive Owen plays Colin Briggs, a taciturn inmate doing time Read More

Mean Machine

Actors: Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Vas Blackwood

Synopsis: The classic Burt Reynolds football-behind-bars flick The Longest Yard crosses the pond and gets an appropriate British accent in the process in this rough-and-tumble mixture of sports and action-comedy. Danny Mehan (Vinnie Jones) was one of the biggest stars in British football (what Americans Read More

Waking Ned Devine

Actors: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt

Synopsis: Just as the charming British film The Full Monty told the story of simple men willing to shed their clothes for money, Waking Ned Devine is the story of older Irish men who pursue money and take off their clothes. Commercial director Kirk Jones makes his feature directing debut with a story about Read More

The Matchmaker

Actors: Janeane Garofalo, David Patrick O'Hara, Milo O'Shea, Jay O. Sanders, Rosaleen Linehan

Synopsis: An American woman on a business trip in Ireland finds love knocking at her door, no matter how sternly she refuses to answer, in this romantic comedy. Marcy Tizard (Janeane Garofalo) is an assistant to Senator John McGlory (Jay O. Sanders), a congressman from Boston in the midst of a hard-fought Read More

Moondance

Synopsis: Two teenaged lads vie for the attention of a nubile young German tourist visiting the beautiful Irish countryside in this heartfelt coming-of-age drama. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

A Man of No Importance

Actors: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: A middle-aged Irish bus conductor with a passion for the writings of Oscar Wilde causes controversy when he attempts to stage Wilde's Salome in this period drama set in early 1960s Dublin. Alfie Byrne (Albert Finney) is a well-liked local figure, a life-long bachelor who charms his bus passengers Read More

Into the West

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Ruaidhri Conroy, Patrick Doyle, David Kelly

Synopsis: Mike Newell directs Jim Sheridan's screenplay (based on a story by Tim Palmer) in this enchanting and magical modern-day fairy tale. Gabriel Byrne plays Papa Reilly, a widower who lives with his two young sons, Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy), in the slums of Dublin. There Read More

Joyriders

Actors: Patricia Kerrigan, Andrew Connolly, Billie Whitelaw, David Kelly, John Kavanagh

Synopsis: Mary (Patricia Kerrigan) is a battered wife with two small children, living in a grim section of Dublin. Unable to stand the abuse any longer, she runs away from home, leaving her kids behind. Without money or a place to stay, she's befriended by a somewhat shady character named Perky (Andrew Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

Actors: Brian Schulz, John Manfredi, Robert Rickman, Tim Quill, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Stryker (Brian Schulz) is a wounded Vietnam vet who sets out to avenge the kidnapping of his girlfriend in this low-budget, blood-spurting slasher film. When Sally (Cheryl Hanson) is abducted, Stryker and his Army buddies go after the leader of a cult, who resembles none other than Charles Manson (Sam Raimi Read More

Beaks: The Movie

Actors: Christopher Atkins, Michelle Johnson, Sonia Infante

Synopsis: Spanish hack Rene Cardona, Jr. (of Aztec Mummy fame) directed this gory rip-off of The Birds (not a parody as its goofy title suggests) which follows a reporter/photographer team (Michelle Johnson & Christopher Atkins) as they investigate frequent reports of lethal bird attacks on humans. They Read More

Pirates

Actors: Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis

Synopsis: Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a difference. Captain Red (Walter Matthau) runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor (Cris Campion). One day Capt. Red is Read More

Birds of Prey

Actors: Jorge Montesi, Joseph Patrick Finn, Linda Elder, Maurice Brand

Synopsis: Shot for a mere $400,000 (Canadian) in a little over a month at the end of 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta, this tepid thriller readily betrays its low-budget, hasty origins. Beware of a film with characters with names like "Lever" and "Smarm" that is produced, written, edited, directed, and starred in Read More

The Jigsaw Man

Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray

Synopsis: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963. But this fictional, unsophisticated, if not naive Read More

Red Monarch

Actors: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: Presented in a series of ostensibly farcical or irreverent episodes without any particular connection to each other, and based on short stories written by Yuri Krotkov's own personal knowledge of Stalin, the Red Monarch sketches the infamous Russian dictator as something of a buffoon suffering Read More

Whoops! Apocalypse [TV Series]

Actors: Barry Morse, John Barron, Richard Griffiths, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer

Synopsis: Imagine Monty Python's Flying Circus crossed with Dr. Strangelove, and you'll have a pretty good idea of what went on in the uproarious "black" British sitcom Whoops! Apocalypse. Three of the world's superpowers collide head-on in their efforts to replace the recently deposed Shah of Iran: U.S. Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud

Synopsis: While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this 1982 TV adaptation was the fourteenth filmization of the Hugo novel. Anthony Hopkins, barely recognizable under mounds of disfiguring body makeup, plays Read More

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Actors: Bosco Hogan, John Gielgud, T.P. McKenna, Maureen Potter

Synopsis: Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego Stephen Daedelus, an irrepressible boy at eternal odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and Read More

Strumpet City

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Peter Ustinov, David Kelly, Bryan Murray

Synopsis: One of the most turbulent eras in Dublin history is detailed in this adaptation of the James Plunkett novel directed by Tony Barry and starring Peter Ustinov and Peter O'Toole. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Straight Time

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that Read More

Un Taxi Mauve

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Agostina Belli, Peter Ustinov, Fred Astaire

Synopsis: An ambitious musical adaptation of Michel Déon's best-selling novel, Un Taxi Mauve is set in Ireland during a time in which the nation announced it would no longer demand income taxes of artists, bringing a steady stream of creative bohemians to the Emerald Isle. Novelist Philippe (Philippe Read More

Deep Jaws

Actors: David Kelly, Anne Gaybis, Candy Samples

Synopsis: A movie mogul down on his luck hopes that sex really does sell in this irreverent comedy for adults only. Uranus Studios have built their reputation around respectable and critically acclaimed films suitable for family viewing, but in the late '70s, that's the last thing anyone wants to see, and Read More

Oh Father! [TV Series]

Actors: Derek Nimmo, Laurence Naismith, Pearl Hackney, David Kelly

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

Actors: Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder, Eileen Colgan, Seamus Ford, May Ollis

Synopsis: Quackser Fortune (Gene Wilder) is a carefree fertilizer merchant in Dublin. Something of a local "character," Quackser becomes the object of fascination for wealthy American visitor Zazel Pierce (Margot Kidder). At first, the radical differences in their stations in life make little difference to Read More

The McKenzie Break

Actors: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Patrick O'Connell, Caroline Mortimer

Synopsis: The McKenzie Break is an unusual POW escape drama in that the would-be escapees are German prisoners, held in a Scottish camp. When a Luftwaffe pilot is murdered in the compound, British major Ian Hendrey investigates. He suspects that the killing is tied in with a complex escape plan, engineered Read More

The Italian Job

Actors: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Read More

Ulysses

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan, Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Martin Dempsey

Synopsis: Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a student/poet in Dublin. Focusing more upon the characters' thoughts and fantasies than upon their actions, it features some of Joyce's previously banned prose. This drama was Read More

Girl With Green Eyes

Actors: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Julian Glover

Synopsis: Rita Tushingham was propelled into stardom with The Girl with Green Eyes. She plays a gawky young rural Irish girl who takes a room with a wise-cracking Dublin lass (Lynn Redgrave). Enter a middle-aged writer (Peter Finch), who makes a beeline for the shy, lonely Tushingham--completely ignoring Read More

The Quare Fellow

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Harry Brogan, Dermot Kelly, Jack Cunningham

Synopsis: Brendan Behan, the quixotic, eternally sloshed Irish poet/playwright, peppered his play The Quare Fellow with plenty of "gallows humor." The film version dispenses with most the play's morbid jests, leaving us with a grim, straightforward account of a Dublin death-row prison guard (Patrick McGoohan Read More

The Hand

Synopsis: In this odd crime film, Scotland Yard begins searching for the one-armed killer behind a series of gruesome murders. The story begins in Burma during WW II with the capture and torture of a British captain and his two men. The soldiers refuse to give the Burmese information, and their Read More

The Wrong Man

Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his customary fabricated suspense yarns, through the simple expedient of walking before the camera and telling us as much (this introductory appearance replaced his planned cameo role Read More