John Keane Filmography

Tara Road

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale suddenly dies while celebrating his fifteenth Read More

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Clémence Poésy, Richard Coyle, Emilia Fox, Tim McInnerny

Anna Karenina

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Helen McCrory, Kevin McKidd, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: In 1978, America's PBS made the wise decision of running the ten-part 1977 British adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's tragic novel Anna Karenina. Twenty-two years later, the Boston-based public TV station WGBH entered into another felicitous partnership with the BBC, and the result was a shorter Read More

The Russian Bride

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lia Williams, Douglas Hodge, Sheila Hancock, Jason Watkins, Ralph Riach, Robin Soans, Bob Kingdom

Synopsis: A beautiful Russian bride seeking to start a new life in America finds her dreams shattered when an internet marriage agency sets her up with an abusive husband. When Natasha (Lia Williams) received word that she had found a new husband, she began to feel as if her future was finally looking up. Read More

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

Synopsis: A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Created by Anthony Zuiker, the CBS cop series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which first aired on October 6, 2000, could be described as "Quincy for the 21st century." Set in Las Vegas, the weekly, 60-minute series focused on the activities of that city's Crime Scene Investigations Bureau. Read More

Monsignor Renard

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell

Synopsis: Created by Russell Lewis, the four-episode British miniseries Monsignor Renard was set in the French town of St-Josse-des-Bois during the Nazi occupation of the 1940s. The title character, played by John Thaw of Inspector Morse fame, initially tried to keep himself above politics. Ultimately Read More

Wives and Daughters

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Francesca Annis, Justine Waddell, Keeley Hawes, Anthony Howell

Synopsis: Debuting November 28, 1999, over BBC1, the four-part British miniseries Wives and Daughters was the second of two TV adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel (the first aired in 1972). Set in the early 1800s, the story takes place in a small, gossip-driven English town. Upon the Read More

Hundred Percent

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Darion Basco, Dustin Nguyen, Garrett Wang, Tamlyn Tomita, Adam Collis

Synopsis: Eric Koyanagi made his feature directorial debut with the triple plot threads weaving throughout this comedy. Romantic coffeeshop worker Isaac (Dustin Nguyen), hoping for his ideal woman, is taken aback by leather-lady Thaise (Tamlyn Tomita). Actor Troy (Garrett Wang), fed up with casting Read More

Hideous Kinky

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mohcine Barmouni, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. Read More

Far From the Madding Crowd

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paloma Baeza, Nathaniel Parker, Nigel Terry, Jonathan Firth

Synopsis: Produced for Granada Television and first shown in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre, Far From the Madding Crowd is based on author Thomas Hardy's novel of the same name. Dorset, England is the setting for what becomes a passionate love quadrangle centred around the beautiful but tempermental Read More

A Further Gesture

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Alfred Molina, Stephen Rea, Jorge Sanz, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Rosana Pastor

Synopsis: An IRA volunteer tries to leave his life of violence behind -- only to discover it's waiting for him in America -- in this drama based on a story by leading man Stephen Rea. Dowd (Rea) is a convicted terrorist with the Irish Republican Army who is serving a sentence in a prison in Northern Read More

Hey Baby it's You! Easter Parade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this installment of Hey Baby It's You, an Easter theme is presented. Intended for young children and babies, this video is the visual equivalent of a simple picture book, with lots of colorful images of babies being babies -- smiling, laughing, crawling, and doing all the other things that Read More

Hey Baby it's You! Our Favorite Pets

Crew: Musical Performer

Trojan Eddie

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of a nomadic peddler who travels about the countryside selling housewares from his van. Trojan Eddie's unusual moniker comes from the logo upon his van. He works for John Power, the owner of several such traveling vans. Read More

Letters from the East

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: Anna and her father fled Estonia during WW II and moved to England. At the time, she believed that her mother was dead. In 1989, Anna's father dies and shortly thereafter she finds a bunch of old photographs and letters. Reading them, she begins to reassemble a clearer picture of her Read More

Small Faces

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Clare Higgins, Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directed and co-wrote (with brother Billy MacKinnon) this semi-autobiographical drama set in the working class Glasgow of 1968. Thirteen-year-old Lex Maclean (Iain Robertson) is torn between his brothers, his only male role models. Alan (Joseph McFadden) is an Read More

Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Hard Promises

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William L. Petersen, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry

Synopsis: William Petersen's High Horse Films produced this romantic comedy that endeavors to recall the glory days of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Petersen stars as Joey Coalter, a roving adventurer who has been married to his wife Chris (Sissy Spacek) for almost thirteen years but has rarely been home. Read More

The Last of His Tribe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Graham Greene, Jon Voight, Anne Archer, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Graham Greene stars as Ishi, the lone survivor of the Yahi Indian tribe, who is discovered and cared for by anthropologist Albert Kroeber (Jon Voight) in this made-for-cable docudrama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Keep the Change

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Palance, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas McGuane, this made-for-TV feature stars William Petersen as Joe Starling, a painter suffering from creative block. For inspiration, he returns to his family's Montana home, only to find the land coveted by a malevolent developer (Jack Palance). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Bruce Davison, Reese Witherspoon, Joseph Mazzello, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis: When his daughter Renee Witherspoon is stricken with leukemia, father Bruce Davison hopes to find a bone-marrow transplant within his own family. The most likely candidate is Renee's half-brother Joe Mazzello. But Joe's natural mother (and Renee's stepmother) Joanna Kerns, fearful that her son Read More

The Hummingbird Tree

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Susan Wooldridge

Synopsis: Until not so very long ago, European-ruled islands in the Caribbean had a very distinct class structure, with European-born whites at the top, followed by the local variety, mulattos of every kind in the middle, and fully ethnic people of color at the bottom. Despite that, in this film set in Read More

The Gravy Train Goes East

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: This four-part, four-hour British miniseries was a sequel to Malcolm Bradbury's 1990 TV effort The Gravy Train. Christoph Waltz returned to the role of Dorfman, a terminally idealistic member of the European Economic Council. This time around, the teeny-tiny Balkan state of Slaka hoped to join the Read More

The Resurrected

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Laurie Briscoe

Synopsis: This low-budget film from Alien scriptwriter Dan O'Bannon (his first film since the 1985 zombie hit Return of the Living Dead) is one of the more loyal adaptations of fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft, taking as its source the short story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Set in Lovecraft's home town Read More

Chattahoochee

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Since Chattahoochee is a story based on true events, it may seem absurd to suggest that the actual events of Chattahoochee are pirated from other true-life tales like Gideon's Trumpet. But it certainly seems as if true stories are just as derivative as any fictional narrative coming out of Read More

Murder East - Murder West

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Gravy Train

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Anita Zagaria, Jacques Sereys, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: The Gravy Train was the first of two British miniseries focusing on the seriocomic misadventures of Dorfman (Christoph Waltz), a new member of the European Economic Council. Embarking upon his diplomatic career with stars in his eyes, Dorfman was quickly disillusioned by the infighting, pettiness Read More

The Kitchen Toto

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Edwin Mahinda, Kristen Hughes, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: In the vernacular of Kenyan whites of the 1950s, a "kitchen toto" was a native black servant. One such "toto" is 12-year-old Mwangi (Edwin Mahinda). The son of a black clergyman who has been slain by Mau Mau for his moderate beliefs, Mwangi is taken into the household of British police-chief Bob Peck Read More

Nanou

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Imogen Stubbs, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Christophe Lidon, Valentine Pelca

Synopsis: This drama concerns a young woman who takes far too long to grow up. Nanou (Imogen Stubbs) skips out of England to bum around Europe and have some adventures. Leaving Geneva behind after a stint at waitressing, she meets and eventually moves in with a roust-about named Luc (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey). Read More