Marie Kean Filmography

Born:: Rush, Ireland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Character actress, onscreen from the '50s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Actors: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice

Synopsis: Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is a middle-aged "maiden lady" piano teacher living in 1950s Dublin. Timid and self-deprecating, Judith permits herself to yearn over her new boarding-house neighbor, hotel entrepreneur Bob Hoskins. Hoskins thinks that Judith has enough money to bankroll his latest Read More

12/23/87
The Dead

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Rachel Dowling, Cathleen Delaney, Helena Carroll

Synopsis: The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and Julia Morkan (Cathleen Delany). At the home of these Read More

12/17/87
Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema - John Huston and the Dubliners

Actors: John Huston, Anjelica Huston, Tony Huston, Donal McCann, Roberto Silvi, Tom Shaw

Synopsis: The legendary filmmaker John Huston is the focus of this documentary as he directs his last film The Dead. Taken from a story by James Joyce, Huston insist his actors are well-prepared while allowing for active participation from the performers. Huston's son Tony collaborated with his father on Read More

1987
Angel

Actors: Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin, Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Honor Heffernan

Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Jordan's debut feature is a tense thriller played out amid the violence in Northern Ireland. Stephen Rea stars as Danny, a saxophone player in a traveling band who witnesses the brutal murders of the manager of the band (who is involved in some extortion payoffs) and a deaf Read More

1982
Macbeth

Actors: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench

Synopsis: This 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth was originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1978. The company's artistic director Trevor Dunn directs the cast on a small bare stage with mostly black costumes and minimal props. After the witches (Susan Dury, Judith Harte, Marie Kean) Read More

1978
Barry Lyndon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel depicts the rise and fall of a sensitive rogue in the British aristocracy. Young Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) leaves home to seek his Read More

1975
Ryan's Daughter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, John Mills

Synopsis: The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular." Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan Read More

1970
Great Catherine

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Hawkins, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine made it to the screen. Where is the justice in this? Anyway, Jeanne Moreau braves it through the nearly unplayable role of Read More

1968
Time Lost and Time Remembered

Actors: Sarah Miles, Cyril Cusack, Julian Glover, Sean Caffrey, Marie Kean

Synopsis: It can't have been box-office considerations that motivated the title-change of the British I Was Happy Here to the American-release title Time Lost and Time Remembered. Director Desmond Davis both directed and wrote this nostalgic story of a London housewife (Sarah Miles), who leaves her husband Read More

1966
The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Actors: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This lush and lively Disney adventure chronicles the young man's tumultuous ascension to the throne and his attempts to unite the Read More

1966
Cul-de-Sac

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, William Franklyn

Synopsis: The fact that there isn't a single likeable character in Cul de Sac does not diminish its artistic value in the least. Ageing, furtively kinky Donald Pleasence is married to sexy young Francoise Dorleac. The couple's hermitlike tranquility is shattered when wounded gangsters Jack MacGowan and Lionel Stander Read More

1966
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

1964
Stork Talk

Actors: Tony Britton, Anne Heywood, John Turner, Daphne Anderson

Synopsis: Dr. Paul Vernon (Tony Britton) is a gynecologist who is estranged from his wife in this situation comedy of errors. He gets drunk at a party, picks up a pretty French girl and takes her home for a night of pleasure. The perplexed physician wakes up to find the French femme has spent the night in Read More

1962
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

1962
The Poacher's Daughter

Actors: Julie Harris, Tim Seely, Harry Brogan, Marie Kean, Brid Lynch

Synopsis: One of the few Irish-made films of the 1950s to get an American release, The Poacher's Daughter stars Broadway actress Julie Harris, supported by members of the Abbey Players. Harris portrays an Irish colleen who sets her cap for Tim Seely, a young roisterer who's inherited a farm. Seely is a Read More

1958
Rooney

Actors: John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: Rooney (John Gregson) is a handsome but unambitious Irish sanitation worker. Rooney's landladies would love to see him married to one of their daughters, or nieces, or whatever, but Rooney ain't buyin'. Barry Fitzgerald plays Rooney's elderly bedridden neighbor, whom the young man befriends, turns Read More

1958
Jacqueline

Actors: John Gregson, Kathleen Ryan, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Jacqueline, played by Jacqueline Ryan, is the daughter of a Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil, played by John Gregson. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through Read More

1956