Rachel Dowling Filmography

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The Tichborne Claimant

Actors: John Kani, Robert Pugh, Stephen Fry, Robert Hardy, John Gielgud

Synopsis: David Yates directed this $4 million fact-based British period drama, set in Victorian England and reminiscent of The Return of Martin Guerre and Sommersby. An elderly African-American man, Andrew Bogle (John Kani), dying in a London workhouse in 1895, reflects on the circumstances that led to Read More

1998
Bogwoman

Actors: Rachel Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown, Maria McDernottroe

Synopsis: Set in 1958, this drama chronicles the raising of an Irish housewife's socio-political consciousness over a ten year period. Desiring a better life for her son, the unmarried Maureen crosses the border into Northern Ireland to live in the town of Bogside in Derry. There she marries the easy-going Read More

1997
Widows' Peak

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In the Irish town of Kilshannon in the 1920s, a matriarchal clique of widows tightly sets the rules for behavior. Heading the town's ruling circle is the doughty Mrs. Counihan (Joan Plowright). The only non-widow in town is a reclusive middle-aged spinster, Miss O'Hare (Mia Farrow), who seems to Read More

1994
In the Name of the Father

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

1993
The Field

Actors: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar and Golden Globe) for his performance in The Field. The time is the mid-1930s; the place, western Ireland. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe (Harris) has been cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it Read More

12/20/90
Tears in the Rain

Actors: Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Anna Massey, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys to England in obedience to her late mother's last request. There she encounters the son of her mother's former beau and romantic sparks fly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
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