Derrick O'ConnorFilmography

Unrest

Actors: Corri English, Joshua Alba, Scot Davis, Jay Jablonski, Marisa Petroro, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: A first-year medical student discovers that death may not be as final as she once believed when the spirit of the cadaver assigned to her in Gross Anatomy class attempts to resolve some unfinished business in the mortal realm. When the sheet is drawn back and Alison's (Corri English) cadaver is Read More

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) returns to the screen for another round of supernatural adventures on the high seas in this spirited sequel to the 2003 Disney hit, which re-teams original director Gore Verbinski with original screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. As Will (Orlando Bloom) Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

Synopsis: Monk (Tony Shalhoub) sets about to locate the world-famous Alexander diamond, for which a million-dollar reward has been offered. Quickly absorbing the clues at hand, Monk deduces that the diamond was stolen by Danny Chasen (Daniel Browning Smith). Alas, Chasen has already been murdered, so Monk Read More

Daredevil

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau

Synopsis: One of Marvel Comics' most popular characters comes to the screen for the first time in this sci-fi action-thriller. Matthew Murdock (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer whose father, a prizefighter, was killed by gangsters when Murdock was just a boy. Since then, Murdock has devoted his life to bringing Read More

Alias: The Prophecy

Synopsis: Erstwhile "James Bond" Roger Moore guest stars as Edward Poole, an SD-9 leader who has startling information about a turncoat in the Alliance of Twelve. Elsewhere, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is not the only one who is astonished to find her own image on a sketch drawn 500 years earlier by the Read More

Alias: Rendezvous

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is in Paris, poised to foil the sinister schemes of Khasinau (Derrick O'Connor). Also in the City of Light is Will (Bradley Cooper), who has teamed with Jack (Victor Garber) to locate "Deep Throat." Meanwhile, Sloane (Ron Rifkin) Read More

Alias: The Enemy Walks In

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger established at the end of season one, season two of Alias begins with college student-cum-secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) coming face to face with her presumed-dead mother, KGB agent Irina Derevko (Lena Olin, making her first appearance as a series regular). Read More

Alias: Almost Thirty Years

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Syd (Jennifer Garner) and Jack (Victor Garber) join forces against both the SD-6 and CIA for the sake of their too-inquisitive friend, Will (Bradley Cooper). Also looking out for Will's safety is Vaughn (Michael Vartan), who in putting an end to a vital Read More

End of Days

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: 1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the Read More

Deep Rising

Actors: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Stephen Somers wrote and directed this $50 million science-fiction action-thriller. Set in the South China Sea, the story has been described as a cross between The Poseidon Adventure, Alien, and Die Hard. On the maiden voyage of the luxury liner Argonautica, pickpocket Trillian (Famke Janssen) is Read More

Soul Survivors

Actors: Ian McShane, Margi Clarke, Isaac Hayes, Antonio Fargas, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: The two-part British miniseries Soul Survivors was all about second chances. Ian McShane was cast against type as Otis Cooke, a disc jockey on a Liverpool soul music station. After the cancellation of his radio program , Otis whimsically headed to America in hopes of reuniting his favorite soul Read More

How to Make an American Quilt

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

A Question of Guilt

Actors: Cherie Lunghi, Derrick O'Connor, Gillian Barge

Synopsis: This courtroom drama centers on a team of attorneys as they try to figure out a way to defend an unusually beautiful woman who has been accused of infanticide. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stark

Actors: Michael Edward-Stevens

Synopsis: Based on a novel by satirical comedian (and dedicated environmentalist) Ben Elton, the British miniseries Stark was set in the bleak near-future, with mankind facing utter extinction due to rampant pollution. The action took place in Australia, home base for the Stark Conspiracy, a secret Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

Synopsis: An old "urban legend" stemming from an incident at the 1893 Paris Exposition is the inspiration for this episode. While visiting London, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) comes across a corpse in her hotel room. She summons the authorities, only to find that the corpse has disappeared--and subsequently Read More

Dealers

Actors: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'Connor, John Castle, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: The financial and personal dealings of high finance set the stage for this drama. The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner (Simon Slater) commits suicide by putting a Read More

Lethal Weapon 2

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon 2 re-teams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" L.A. detective Martin Riggs and his partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going Read More

Hope and Glory

Actors: Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis

Synopsis: An affectionate reverie about war, childhood, and British stoicism, John Boorman's Hope and Glory is the veteran filmmaker's recollection of the bombing of London during World War II. Set on the British home front during the early days of the war, this episodic movie shows the blitz through the Read More

Brazil

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild Read More

Honest, Decent and True

Actors: Derrick O'Connor, Adrian Edmondson, Juliette Mole, Gary Oldman, Richard E. Grant

Synopsis: Its title dripping with sarcasm, Honest, Decent and True strikes a few more-than-glancing blows at the advertising industry. The scene is a British brewery, where the conservative executive board bemoans a steady loss of revenue. Into this rarefied atmosphere bursts a team of yuppie ad Read More

Knockback

Synopsis: When a prison volunteer and a convicted murderer who is serving a life sentence meet and fall in love, despite all the problems involved in the relationship, the couple decide to challenge the criminal justice system. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloody Kids

Synopsis: The "Bloody" in Bloody Kids is meant in both its scatological in literal sense. Two restless teens (Derrick O'Connor and Gary Holton) from the South End of London go on a Saturday-night spree. When girls and booze lose their appeal, the boys add murder to their itinerary. A surreal, high-energy Read More

The Missionary

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission Read More

Time Bandits

Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm

Synopsis: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Read More

Hawk the Slayer

Actors: Jack Palance, John Terry, Bernard Bresslaw, Ray Charleson, Peter O'Farrell

Synopsis: Hawk the Slayer will appeal most to undiscriminating fans of the sword-and-sorcery genre. The title character, played by John Terry, is on a lifelong quest for "The Power", an enchanted flying sword. Alas, Hawk's evil brother Voltan (Jack Palance) likewise covets The Power. A plethora of violence Read More

One Joke Too Many

Sweeney 2

Actors: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Denholm Elliott, Georgina Hale, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: The Sweeney started out as a British TV detective program all about Scotland Yard's Flying Squad. Its popularity spawned a reasonably satisfying 1976 feature film, starring the TV series' Tom Thaw. In Sweeney 2, Thaw is called upon to solve a series of carefully orchestrated bank robberies, which Read More

Jabberwocky

Actors: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular beast in this broadly comic fantasy. The first solo outing of director Terry Gilliam, who served as animator and co-director on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, returns to the Read More

The Final Programme

Actors: Hugh Griffith, Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: Jon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius, swinging London's leading scientific genius, in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock. As the world teeters on the brink of collapse following a nuclear war, Jerry discovers that a batch of microfilm containing "the Read More