Thaddeus O'Sullivan Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Cinematographer
Biography:: With 1995's Nothing Personal, director and cinematographer Thaddeus O'Sullivan produced one of the most brutal accounts of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland ever committed to celluloid. A searing, uncompromising drama that centered on the personal side of the troubles, rather than the...Read More

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Proof: Prescription for Murder

Crew: Director

Actors: Finbar Lynch, Orla Brady, Moya Farrelly, Conor Mullen

Synopsis: When the scientists of Chemacran create a remarkable new drug and begin to anticipate a takeover by a large U.S. pharmaceutical company, ethics are tested as potential for profit soars. Thankfully journalists Terry Corcoran (Finbar Lynch) and Maureen Bloand (Orla Brady) are more than willing to Read More

2005
Island at War

Crew: Director

Actors: James Wilby, Clare Holman, Philip Glenister, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: Spanning over six and a half hours, this U.K. television movie chronicles the harrowing experiences of the citizens of the Channel Islands during World War II. Produced for Masterpiece Theatre, Island at War is a fictionalized account of the five years spent under Nazi rule by the British Read More

2004
The Heart of Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Eleanor Bron, Luke Newberry

Synopsis: In the style of a Merchant-Ivory production, Thaddeus O'Sullivan directs the British costume drama The Heart of Me, based on Rosamond Lehmann's 1953 novel The Echoing Grove and adapted by Lucinda Coxon. The film opens in late '30s London at the funeral of a middle-class family patriarch survived Read More

6/13/03
Ordinary Decent Criminal

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman

Synopsis: Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, Michael Lynch, a thief, bigamist, liar, and criminal genius who robs from the rich to give to the poor. Michael is suave, sardonic, and sexy. When his Read More

1999
Witness to the Mob

Crew: Director

Actors: Nicholas Turturro, Tom Sizemore, Debi Mazar, Abe Vigoda, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The key figure in this two-part TV mob miniseries is Mafia snitch Sammy "The Bull" Gravano (Nicholas Turturro). Gravano ratted on John Gotti (Tom Sizemore), who manipulated the 1985 murder of mob boss Paul Castellano (Abe Vigoda). Gravano is seen rising in the mob ranks through various Read More

1998
Nothing Personal

Crew: Director

Actors: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon

Synopsis: Northern Ireland's civil unrest is the backdrop for this tense drama. In Belfast in 1975, a bomb blast rips open a pub in a Protestant neighborhood, killing the patrons inside. Following this attack, representatives from the Irish Republican Army and local Loyalist forces call a mutual truce Read More

1995
December Bride

Crew: Director

Actors: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide, Brenda Bruce

Synopsis: This 19th century period drama set in Northern Ireland tells the story of Sarah (Saskia Reeves), a young woman born into poor circumstances in a devoutly Presbyterian family. Sarah and her mother Martha (Brenda Bruce) are hired to work as housekeepers by a widowed farmer, Mr. Echlin (Geoffrey Golden Read More

1990
On the Black Hill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mike Gwilym, Robert Gwilym, Bob Peck, Gemma Jones, Nesta Harris

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Wales, On the Black Hill is adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin. This is the story of two Welsh brothers, identical twins. The film covers 80 years in the sibling's lives, touching upon their hopes, disappointments, romances and political entanglements. Rather than going Read More

1988
Ladder of Swords

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Shaw

Synopsis: Down on their luck, stranded out on the moors of England, the "Three D's" are a trio of circus performers (a bear trainer and his wife plus the bear) who have attracted the unwelcome attention of a policeman, to whom they appear to be altogether shady characters. Not only that, but after a Read More

1988
The Love Child

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sheila Hancock, Peter Capaldi, Percy Herbert, Lesley Sharp, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: Dillon is a very buttoned-down bookkeeper and appears to be just about as prim as it's possible to be. Perhaps that's because he is an illegitimate child raised by his unconventional grandmother after his parents died. Though he has become a rather conservative fellow, when a pair of aging Read More

1987
Rocinante

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Hurt, Ian Dury, Jimmy Jewel, Carol Gillies

Synopsis: Ostensibly about the 1984 miners' strike in England, this rambling drama veers into a story about Bill (John Hurt) a rootless man who lives in a rundown movie theater and Jess (newcomer Maureen Douglass) who is intent on sabotaging the mining company. Bill creates his own reality in the theater by Read More

1986
Anne Devlin

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brid Brennan, Bosco Hogan, Desmond McAleer, Gillian Hackett

Synopsis: This long, slow-paced but interesting historical docudrama, based on personal diaries, focuses on the role of Anne Devlin in a failed Dublin uprising in the 19th century. Anne was the daughter of a farmer in County Wicklow and when the Irish patriot Robert Emmet went into hiding in a nearby Read More

1984
Pigs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jimmy Brennan, George Shane, Maurice O'Donoghue, Liam Halligan, Kwesi Kay

Synopsis: In a series of character studies, director Cathal Black tells the story of Jimmy (Jimmy Brennan) and the people who end up living with him. After Jimmy, who is gay, leaves prison looking for a way to survive in the world, he finds an abandoned house in Dublin and settles in. Before long, others Read More

1984
Traveller

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alan Devlin

Synopsis: A young woman with a father who fences stolen property and a young man whose father is a lowly farmer get married in a wedding marred by quarrelsome relatives and quick-tempered family friends. After that inauspicious start, their life together spirals somewhat out of control. The father of the Read More

1981