Seamus Deasy Filmography

Occupation:
Cinematographer
  • 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

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