Joseph Tomelty Filmography

Born:: Ireland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Though primarily associated with British theater, Irish playwright and character actor Joseph Tomelty had an extensive film career that spanned three decades. In 1956, injuries from a serious auto accident during the filming of Bhowani Junction temporarily derailed Tomelty's career. Following his...Read More

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The Black Torment

Actors: John Turner, Heather Sears, Ann Lynn, Peter Arne

Synopsis: This staid British thriller stars John Turner as 18th-century nobleman Sir John Fordyce, whose blissful honeymoon holiday is cut brutally short by angry locals who accuse him of raping a woman from the village. Worse, they claim to have seen the ghost of his first wife riding through town on Read More

1965
Sword of Lancelot

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Archie Duncan, John Longden

Synopsis: Cornel Wilde co-produces, directs, and stars with his wife Jean Wallace in this uneven version of fabled King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Wilde, a skilled fencer, is Lancelot and appropriately enough, Wallace is his lady-love Guinevere. This time around, their traditionally chaste Read More

1963
Life Is a Circus

Actors: Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold, Charlie Naughton

Synopsis: This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are busy sweeping up for the almost bankrupt circus they work for. The owner of a rival carnival endeavors to put them out of business for good. The Crazies manage to foil his Read More

1960
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

Actors: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: This crime caper based on a legendary robbery stars Aldo Ray as Norgate, the ringleader of the thieves out to steal a bundle from the Bank of England. But it is a young Peter O'Toole as the guard Fitch who steals the show -- two years before Lawrence of Arabia would make him an internationally Read More

1960
Hell Is a City

Actors: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him. The gritty industrial town of Manchester and its outlying moors provide a somber backdrop to the action. Read More

1960
The Captain's Table

Actors: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding high on the success of his 1956 A Town Like Alice. Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) brings a part of his freighter experience with him as he takes charge of an ocean liner for Read More

1960
Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

1960
Tread Softly Stranger

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two crooked brothers, an embezzler and a gambler, find themselves in deep trouble when the embezzler steals from a steel mill so he can buy his lover fancy clothes. During the theft, he kills a night guard. This spawns an investigation by the slain watchman's son who locates a Read More

1959
A Night to Remember

Actors: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Jane Downs, Jill Dixon

Synopsis: This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter Lord, and it preceded the blockbuster Titanic by almost 40 years. The film covers the life and death of the huge vessel from its launching celebration to that fateful night of Read More

1958
The Atomic Man

Actors: Gene Nelson

Synopsis: Based on a story by prolific if uninspired sci-fi writer Charles Eric Maine, The Atomic Man stars Peter Arne in the title role. Fished out of the Thames with a bullet in his back, Arne is discovered to be highly radioactive. He turns out to be a missing atomic scientist, whose exposure to Read More

1956
Moby Dick

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Seamus Kelly, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly Read More

1956
John and Julie

Actors: Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley, Noelle Middleton, Moira Lister, Peter Sellers

Synopsis: Scads of color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth was strategically deployed in John and Julie. The story involves two little provincial children (Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudley) whose parents have no plans to attend the Coronation. Left to their own devices, John and Julie run Read More

1955
A Prize of Gold

Actors: Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: A U.S. military officer is motivated by love and compassion to begin a life of crime in this action adventure story. Sgt. Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is an American Army officer who, while stationed in Berlin shortly after the end of WWII, falls in love with Maria (Mai Zetterling), a refugee Read More

1955
A Kid for Two Farthings

Actors: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Brenda de Banzie, Joe Robinson

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, Carol Reed tries for a bit of neo-realist whimsy that takes place in the London slums of Petticoat Lane. The film centers upon Joe (Jonathan Ashmore), a six-year-old London East-ender who believes strongly in the magical power of unicorns. Joe and his lonely mother Read More

1955
Simba

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are targeted for extermination by the zealously nationalistic Mau Maus. Native doctor Joseph Tomelty, whose brother had earlier been killed under questionable Read More

1955
Bedevilled

Actors: Anne Baxter, Steve Forrest, Simone Renant, Maurice Teynac, Robert Christopher

Synopsis: In this dark drama, a young American is on his way to take his final vows as a priest when he encounters a troubled nightclub singer with a checkered past. He honestly wants to help her and soon falls for her and finds himself tempted by her seductive ways. But giving in to temptation could have Read More

1955
Hell Below Zero

Actors: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: Hell Below Zero was one of several 1950s films made in Britain by Hollywood's Alan Ladd. The star plays Duncan Craig, who signs onto a whaling ship to get the facts behind the death of Judy Nordahl's (Joan Tetzel) father. While on a whaling expedition near Antarctica, Craig becomes suspicious of Read More

1954
Tonight's the Night

Actors: David Niven, A.E. Matthews, Noelle Middleton, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and generous, Niven quickly earns the animosity of the locals. Eventually they draw lots for the privilege of bumping Niven off. Before the cad is humanized by the love of Yvonne DeCarlo Read More

1954
Chance Meeting

Actors: Odile Versois, David Knight, Joseph Tomelty, Paul Carpenter, Theodore Bikel, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Also known as Chance Meeting, The Young Lovers can be described as an Iron Curtain romance. The boy, Ted (David Knight), works as a code expert at the American Embassy in London. The girl, Anna (Odelle Versois), is the daughter of a communist dignitary. When Ted and Anna fall in love, they find Read More

1954
Devil Girl from Mars

Actors: Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott

Synopsis: In this low-budget British science fiction tale (which, not surprisingly, has gained a cult following), Nyah (Patricia Laffan), a statuesque, leather-clad woman from another world, lands near a small Scottish town with her trusty robot in tow. It seems that Mars has recently seen a dramatic drop Read More

1954
The Death of Michael Turbin

Synopsis: This video features two stories in one. The first story chronicles the escape of a man living in an Eastern block country who was slated for execution. The second story centers on an Irish immigrant who left his native Erin after a love affair goes sour. Once in the New World, he becomes morally Read More

1954
Front Page Story

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan, Eva Bartok, Derek Farr, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he remains in his office and deals with a series of fascinating stories. They include: four children tossed out of their home, a woman accused of euthanasia, an alcoholic journalist's search for an atomic Read More

1954
Hobson's Choice

Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales

Synopsis: A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills Read More

1953
Melba

Actors: Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum, John Justin, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: American opera and musical-comedy soprano Patrice Munsel plays the title role in this filmed biography of famed Australian diva Nellie Melba. The story begins on Nellie's father's cattle farm, where she grew up under her given name of Nelly Mitchell. While studying in Paris with the great Madame Read More

1953
Meet Mr. Lucifer

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway plays Hollingsworth, an actor who is playing Lucifer in a stage production. While being hoisted through a trap door, Hollingsworth is knocked cold. While unconscious, he is Read More

1953
The Oracle

Actors: Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: The Oracle stars Robert Beatty as a weary British reporter sent on assignment to Ireland. While in a remote village, Beatty hears a man's voice emanating from a deep well. The voice turns out to be a modern-day oracle, gifted with the ability to foresee the future. Needless to say, the once-sleepy Read More

1952
You're Only Young Twice

Synopsis: A notorious Irish rebel poet disguises his true identity while working as a gatekeeper at a Scottish university. He also moonlights as a bookie and things go well until a pretty young relative shows up and spills the beans. Comedy ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1952
Treasure Hunt

Synopsis: This comedy is set in an Irish mansion and centers on its enigmatic owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1952
The Gentle Gunman

Actors: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Barbara Mullen

Synopsis: During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of peaceful persuasion, and refuses direct orders to blow up a London railway station. The gunman's impatient brother (Dirk Bogarde) find his sibling's new approach to be Read More

1952
Breaking the Sound Barrier

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan

Synopsis: Breaking the Sound Barrier juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story. Ralph Richardson plays a wealthy aircraft manufacturer, stubbornly determined to develop a jet that will travel faster than the speed of sound. Richardson's seemingly cavalier attitude Read More

1952
Odd Man Out

Actors: James Mason, Fay Compton, Robert Newton, Robert Beatty, Kathleen Ryan, Maureen Delaney, W.G. Fay, F.J. McCormick, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but idealism forces him out of hiding in order to raise Read More

1947