Milo O'SheaFilmography

Swing Vote

Actors: Andy Garcia, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky, Ray Walston, James Whitmore

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama set in the near future, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently overturned the Roe vs. Wade decision and thrown the issue of abortion rights back to the individual states. Alabama has subsequently outlawed abortion on demand and has prosecuted Virginia Mapes (Lisa Gay Hamilton) 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

Frasier: Shrink Rap

Synopsis: Milo O'Shea guest stars as Dr. Schachter, a "couples" specialist. During this particular session, the good doctor is counseling a most odd couple indeed -- namely, sibling psychiatrists Frasier and Niles Crane (Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce), whose relationship is in danger of collapsing. Read More

Murder in the Heartland

Actors: Tim Roth, Fairuza Balk, Brian Dennehy, Randy Quaid, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The miserable life and long-overdue death of thrill killer Charles Starkweather is the basis of the two-part TV movie Murder in the Heartland. Over a bloody few months in 1958, Starkweather (Tim Roth), a 19-year-old high school dropout, embarked on a killing spree, snuffing out 11 victims. Along Read More

The Playboys

Actors: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn, Milo O'Shea, Alan Devlin

Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish romance, taking place in a small Irish village in 1957, just before the first television set makes an appearance in this conservative hamlet. There is a scandal in the village concerning the beautiful and independent Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) Read More

Cheers: An Old-Fashioned Wedding

Synopsis: In Cheers' hour-long tenth season finale, Woody (Woody Harrelson) and Kelly (Jackie Swanson) experience last-minute trepidations about getting married -- but this doesn't stop them from a bit of pre-nuptial hanky panky. When the big day finally arrives, the loving couple must overcome such Read More

Only the Lonely

Actors: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago cop dominated by his harridan mother. Danny Muldoon (John Candy), in spite of being well known and well liked in his neighborhood, still lives at home with his mother Rose (Maureen O'Hara Read More

Opportunity Knocks

Actors: Dana Carvey, Robert Loggia, Todd Graff, Julia Campbell, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live star Dana Carvey had his first leading role on the big screen in this comedy. Eddie (Carvey) and Lou (Todd Graff) are a pair of small-time con artists deep in debt to Pinkie (Mike Bacarella), a loan shark. During a lean period, Eddie and Lou resort to breaking and entering to Read More

The Dream Team

Actors: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris

Synopsis: The eponymous team consists of four residents of a New Jersey psychiatric hospital: ex-postal worker Henry Sikorsky (Christopher Lloyd), who fancies himself a doctor; one-time ad agency exec Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle), suffering from a Messiah/martyr complex; writer Billy Caulfield (Michael Keaton Read More

Once a Hero

Synopsis: In this fantasy, a comic-book hero, worried that he will simply fade away because of his dwindling fans and a burned-out creator, decides to enter the real world and see if he can bolster his flagging reputation while simultaneously cleaning up crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel in Green

Synopsis: In Angel in Green, an unlikely alliance between a Jesuit missionary and a trained-for-combat Green Beret trooper is formed to help protect the island natives from insurgent-spawned violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Broken Vows

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole, M. Emmet Walsh, Milo O'Shea, David Groh

Synopsis: This drama explores the inner turmoil of a parish priest who begins to question his beliefs and his celibacy after he becomes mixed up with the girlfriend of a murder victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Two by Forsyth

Synopsis: A wealthy man attempts to keep his fortune from falling into the hands of his avaricious relatives upon his death, and a temperate man has had it with a gossip columnist in these two shorts adapted from stories by Frederick Forsyth. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

No Comebacks

Synopsis: This British double-feature is comprised of mysteries based on Frederick Forsyth stories. The first, A Careful Man centers upon an ailing millionaire who bilks his greedy relatives out of their rightful inheritance. In Privilege, an ingenious stamp salesman uses the law to get revenge upon a Read More

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Van Johnson

Synopsis: Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local movie house. She becomes so enraptured by the Read More

Ellis Island

Synopsis: The seven-hour TV miniseries Ellis Island was adapted from a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. Per its title, the film is a mosaic of subplots involving several European immigrants who passed through New York's Ellis Island before taking up residence in the Big Apple. Most of the characters are based Read More

The Verdict

Actors: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: In Sidney Lumet's powerful courtroom drama The Verdict, Paul Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an alcoholic Boston lawyer who tries to redeem his personal and professional reputation by winning a difficult medical malpractice case. Frank, down on his luck, is presented with the case of his life when Read More

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

Synopsis: Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger was written by Blanche Hanalis, a specialist in turning out quality teleplays with a feminist slant. Bonnie Franklin stars as pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, who in the early part of the 20th century conducted a 25-year battle to Read More

A Time for Miracles

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the real-life story of Native America's first declared saint, Elizabeth Bayley Seton. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Arabian Adventure

Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puncet Sira

Synopsis: A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love in this colorful fantasy, which features high adventure and plenty of special effects. The hero must overcome a number of dangers, along the way receiving help from a beautiful street urchin and a magical rose. ~ Judd Blaise, All Read More

Danger in the Skies

Synopsis: An airline pilot wages a desperate battle against the alcoholism that is destroying his life and risking the lives of others in this drama. The film is also known as Danger in the Skies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Synopsis: A Marguerite Henry novel was the source for the made-for-TV Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion. Recording artist Leif Garrett assumes the title role, a teen-aged boy growing up in the years just prior to the Civil War. The adventuresome Lundy signs on as a rider for the new Pony Express Read More

It's Not the Size That Counts

Actors: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with Leigh Lawson taking over for Hywel Bennett in the leading role. The plot concerns a chemical that contaminates the world's water supply; as a result, every man is rendered Read More

Professor Popper's Problems

Actors: Charlie Drake

Synopsis: In this comedy an odd-ball science teacher and his young protege begin experimenting with their new shrinking formula. Unfortunately, it works too well. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

And No One Could Save Her

Actors: Lee Remick, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: Lee Remick made her TV movie debut in And No One Could Save Her. She plays an American heiress whose husband (Frank Grimes) has apparently disappeared in the middle of a transcontinental flight. Remick heads to Ireland, her husband's original destination, to get to the bottom of things. And No One Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Actors: Clovissa Newcombe

Synopsis: The exploits of the title sheepdog provide the basis of this family-oriented comedy fantasy. Digby started out as an ordinary puppy but then one day got in to a bowl full of Project X, a special formula meant to grow larger vegetables. As he galumphs along in the countryside causing all kinds of Read More

The Love Ban

Synopsis: Few theatre marquees could accommodate the title It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World, so most British exhibitors chose the film's alternate title, The Love Ban. Based on a potty-mouthed stage play by Kevin Laffan, this comedy concerns the tribulations of a devoutly Catholic couple, played by Nanette Newman Read More

Sacco and Vanzetti

Synopsis: One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in the Italian Sacco and Vanzetti. There is no denying that Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volontè) were anarchists. But it is highly Read More

The Angel Levine

Actors: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster

Synopsis: Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's Read More

Paddy

Actors: Milo O'Shea, Des Cave, Dearbhla Molloy, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: Paddy Maguire (Des Cave) is the wild Irish rogue who works as a butcher in Dublin. Harry (Milo O'Shea) is his good friend and drinking companion. He has an affair and his first sexual encounter with the attractive widow Mrs. Kearney (Maureen Toal). He eventually takes a job with an insurance Read More

Loot

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Joe Orton's black comedy farce has been adapted to the screen in a fast-paced, but ultimately ineffective, adaptation. Hywed Bennett and Roy Holder are two lay-abouts named Dennis and Hal who decide to improve their lot in life by robbing a bank. After pulling the job, they have to hide the loot Read More

The Adding Machine

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Milo O'Shea, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Chaplin, Julian Glover

Synopsis: This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years of slavish devotion to the company by getting fired just prior to retirement and being replaced with an adding machine. Now, with only his nagging wife waiting at home to add Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery

Synopsis: Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was touted at the time of its release (successfully, if the box-office receipts are any indication), as something of a "youth trip" movie. This is because Zeffirelli broke the long-standing tradition of casting over-aged Read More

Barbarella

Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, David Hemmings, Joan Greenwood, Maria Theresa Orsini, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier

Synopsis: A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic 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

Bing Crosby: A Little Bit of Irish

Actors: Bing Crosby, Siobhan McKenna, Milo O'Shea, The Ludlows, Bernadette Greevy

Synopsis: The late velvet voiced crooner Bing Crosby headlined the 1967 television special, Bing Crosby: A Little Bit of Irish, which originally aired on American networks. Shot live in Dublin circa 1966 as a tribute to the country of St. Patrick and the great potato famine, A Little Bit of Irish features Read More

Never Put It in Writing

Actors: Pat Boone, Milo O'Shea, Fidelma Murphy, Reginald Beckwith, Harry Brogan

Synopsis: Pat Boone plays Stephen Cole, a young Irish man who believes himself to be worthy of a promotion from his employer. Believing that his boss instead is practicing nepotism, giving the promotion to his own nephew, Stephen writes--and mails--the company a caustic letter. Before long, however, Stephen Read More

Carry On Cabby

Actors: Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: The seventh film in the long-running "Carry On" series (24 more were to follow), this chapter features Sidney James as Charlie, owner of the Speedee Cab Company. Business has been good for Charlie, so good that it's been a source of great aggravation for his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques), who Read More

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

Synopsis: In this British comedy drama, a dotty old widow finally finds a new love and happiness until her unruly sons bust out of prison and beg her to hide them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

This Other Eden

Synopsis: This British comedy is set in 1945 Ireland and tells the story of a small town that plans to erect a monument to honor an IRA rebel during the 1920s. The son of the British colonel responsible for the killing strongly objects. After the statue has been unveiled, the rebel's mischievous son Read More

You Can't Beat the Irish

Actors: Jack Warner, Barbara Mullen

Synopsis: The blarney is as thick as the characters' brogues in You Can't Beat the Irish. Jack Warner stars as lazy but enterprising Irish paterfamilias Bartley Murnahan. To support his family, Bartley has hit upon a foolproof scam. By arranging a series of subtle subterfuges, he convinces his neighbors Read More

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