Cyril Cusack
Know for: Acting
Born: 1910-11-26
Place of birth: Durban, Natal, South Africa
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Harold and Maude (1971)
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold...
All the Way Boys (1972)
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in...
Les Misérables (1978)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
Where the Spies Are (1966)
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is...
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a...
Far and Away (1992)
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh...
The Power and the Glory (1963)
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...
True Confessions (1981)
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final...
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an...
Escape (1948)
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
King Lear (1971)
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire,...
Odd Man Out (1947)
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a...
Gideon's Day (1958)
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From...
The Small Back Room (1949)
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal...
Little Dorrit (1987)
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...
Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a...
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Floods of Fear (1958)
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
Gone to Earth (1950)
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...
Execution Squad (1972)
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have...
I Thank a Fool (1962)
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has...
Fear in the City (1976)
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night...
The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just...
The Homecoming (1973)
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and...
The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas....
The Man in the Road (1956)
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention...
Lovespell (1981)
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Brotherly Love (1970)
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
The Blue Veil (1951)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
David Copperfield (1969)
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...
Once a Crook (1941)
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and...
Esther Waters (1948)
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...
Galileo (1968)
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Soldiers Three (1951)
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an...
Andrina (1981)
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the...
Deirdre (1965)
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats...
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...
Knocknagow (1918)
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle....
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...
Miracle in Soho (1957)
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets...
As You Like It (1992)
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...
All Over the Town (1949)
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...
Passage Home (1955)
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a...
The Fool (1990)
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...
80,000 Suspects (1963)
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Run, Run, Joe! (1974)
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
The Italian Connection (1972)
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are...
I Was Happy Here (1966)
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return...
The Balloon Vendor (1974)
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea...
Horowitz in Dublin (1973)
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds...
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic...
A Passage to India (1965)
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard,...
W. B. Yeats: A Tribute (1950)
Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute.
Jacqueline (1956)
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...
The Outcasts (1983)
In pre-famine Ireland when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a magical world of the imagination through the...
Cry of the Innocent (1980)
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a...
The Ballroom of Romance (1982)
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
The Abdication (1974)
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
The March Hare (1956)
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell...
Don Juan in Hell (1962)
The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil,...
The Tenth Man (1988)
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the...
Saadia (1953)
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her...
The Kingfisher (1983)
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
Cradle of Genius (1960)
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady...
The Wedding Dress (1963)
Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset.
Poet Game (1972)
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against...
Juggernaut (1974)
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Oedipus the King (1968)
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for...
Johnny Nobody (1961)
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob...
Children of Rage (1975)
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been...
Don Camillo (1984)
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973)
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the...
Rainy Day Women (1984)
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2002)
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...
The Catholics (1973)
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has...
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
Dial M for Murder (1967)
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
The Man with the Power (1976)
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual...
Guests of The Nation (1935)
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond...
Poitín (1978)
A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
Memento Mori (1992)
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Once Upon a Tram (1960)
Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city while enjoying the clatter and clang of the old...
A Terrible Beauty (1960)
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can...
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as...
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984)
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity...
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949)
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
The Moon and Sixpence (1959)
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972)
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
The Monkey's Paw (1973)
An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's acquired - a monkey's paw which...
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' (1989)
An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)