Seamus Deasy Filmography

Occupation:: Cinematographer

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The Tiger's Tail

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, John Kavanagh

Synopsis: Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a no-nonsense real-estate developer who isn't above Read More

2006
In My Country

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane, Sam Ngakane

Synopsis: The many emotional scars left by South Africa's history of institutionalized racism come under the microscope in this drama. As South Africa comes to terms with the legacy of apartheid, their government has created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which the perpetrators of racial Read More

3/11/05
The Mighty Celt

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Tyrone McKenna, Ken Stott

Synopsis: A young boy from a broken home learns the harsh realities of life after adopting an awkward greyhound and befriending a mysterious figure from his mother's past in this tender coming of age story starring Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, and Tyrone McKenna. Donal (McKenna) and his single mother Read More

2005
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery, John Light, Tom Murphy

Synopsis: If one is to believe this made-for-cable biopic, America's most notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold sold out his country primarily for the love of a woman. Acknowledged as a hero of the Revolutionary War by his commanding officer, General George Washington (Kelsey Grammer), after bringing about the Read More

2002
The Seventh Stream

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Scott Glenn, Saffron Burrows, Joseph Kelly

Synopsis: John Gray wrote and directed this 2001 television production set in a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland in 1909. The 100-minute film gives Irish folklore a new character type, a seal that becomes a lovely human enchantress. The strange metamorphosis takes place after nine days of high Read More

2001
An Everlasting Piece

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: Director Barry Levinson attempts to repeat the success of several recent, low-budget British imports such as The Full Monty (1997), Waking Ned Devine (1998), and Saving Grace (2000) with this comedy about a pair of prison barbers trying to make a success of a hairpiece business in Northern Read More

12/25/00
When the Sky Falls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Jimmy Smallhorne

Synopsis: In this crime drama adapted from a true story, Sinead Hamilton (Joan Allen) is a public relations agent turned journalist who is appalled at the corruption and drug trafficking in her native Dublin; determined to do something about it and make the city a safer place in which to bring up her son Read More

2000
Accelerator

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Gavin Kelty, Aisling O'Neill, Mark Dunne, Georgina McKeritt

Synopsis: In this action picture from Ireland, Johnny T (Stuart Sinclair Blyth) from Belfast makes his living stealing cars but wants to get out of the business while luck is still on his side. However, he's been having troubles with Whacker (Gavin Kelty), a thief from Dublin who wants to take his piece of Read More

1999
The General

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Sean McGinley

Synopsis: John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen color (but printed in sharp black-and-white), The Read More

12/18/98
Angela Mooney Dies Again

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mia Farrow, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa O'Reilly, Alan Devine, Patrick Bergin

Synopsis: A tale of lost-love, idealism and steadfast commitment that alternates between comedy and drama. Passionate and tragic Angela Mooney (Mia Farrow) is a woman prepared to die for her ideals and attempts suicide rather frequently, something that never fails to draw a crowd. Outwardly, her reason for Read More

1997
The Boy from Mercury

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This sprightly, nostalgic and ultimately sentimental Irish drama is suitable for family viewing. It centers on an 8-year-old boy who devises an imaginative way to cope with his grief and loneliness after his father dies. Set in Dublin around 1960, the tale centers on Harry Cronin, who decides, in Read More

1996
The Bishop's Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: A young, priest falls irredeemably from grace in this Irish drama that is comprised of two films put together. He is defrocked and sent to a home for troubled priests. There he meets a bishop who has come home after being exiled to remote missions overseas after he too stumbled and fell. The Read More

1995
Two Nudes Bathing

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This sprightly British drama speculates upon the origins of the anonymous painting, Two Nudes Bathing, which hangs in the Louvre. The painting depicts two beautiful, naked young women engaged in a tender act. The tale begins as a portrait painter makes his way to the home of the parsimonious Comte Read More

1995
Budawanny

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Donal McCann, Peadar Lamb

Synopsis: In this thoughtful black-and-white drama, the story of a priest living and working on Clare Island in County Mayo, Ireland is shown. Except for his vocation, he is a fairly normal fellow, so when a lovely woman is fished out of the sea and delivered into his care, he can't help but notice that Read More

1987
End of the World Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Hewitt, Maureen Dow, Michael Knowles, Leanne O'Malley, Ian Morrison

Synopsis: Though geared for children, the Irish End of the World Man contains a cautionary lesson with grim underpinnings. Leanne O'Malley plays a hoydenish young conservationist anxious to save the last tree on earth, which stands in the middle of a Belfast playground. The government wants to bulldoze the Read More

1985
Poitin

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Niall Toibin, Donal McCann, Mairead Ni Conghaile

Synopsis: Impoverished Irish moonshiners are the focus of this gritty, bleak drama, allegedly the first motion picture ever shot in Gaelic. Director Bob Quinn reportedly created the work in response to what he perceived as cultural myths propagated by John Ford's movie The Quiet Man (1952) -- some 27 years Read More

1979