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T. P. McKenna 536p8
Popularity:0.7506 32m1j
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1929-09-07
Place of Birth:Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
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Also Known As:T.P. McKenna, Thomas Patrick McKenna

Straw Dogs (1971) 13394j
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David...

Villain (1971) 492d6q
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing of Parliament.

Red Scorpion (1988) 8203h
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians...

Percy's Progress (1974) 1b6h1d
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

Girl with Green Eyes (1964) 1n1kp
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

The Beast in the Cellar (1970) 2t5j6d
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

Perfect Friday (1970) 5p6c13
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady...

Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965) 3y4v3l
Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students...

Beasts: Baby (1976) 41286g
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) 636f4n
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...

Young Cassidy (1965) 4x1ql
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family,...

Ulysses (1967) 5j612a
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship...
Deirdre (1965) 5k4a3n
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...
The Rivals (1970) 6n4156
The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Monarch (2000) 53
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler...

Freedom to Die (1961) 5u14k
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the...

Random Moments in a May Garden (1981) 5m6hg
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.

Shoot to Kill (1990) 4i2g3k
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six...

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) 5r3ig
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

The Doctor and the Devils (1985) 4m45r
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple...

Events at Drimaghleen (1991) 5a1q4a
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary...
Blood of the Lamb (1969) 6p2a1c
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic...

A Warm December (1973) 2i5x23
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself...
Love Lies Bleeding (1977) 4y4v5t
Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are...

Crimes (1982) 1k4s2o
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they...

Unreported Incident (1988) d2x6y
Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably...

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle (1984) 21s52
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
Exposure (1978) c4o27
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel...

A Child's Voice (1978) 5o5r5r
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story,...

Downfall (1964) 21426f
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife

The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) 63123i
A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.

The 5th Day of Peace (1970) 4s574z
Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel...

Strong Medicine (1986) 251w4l
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious...

The Law Lord (1992) f3r3p
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment...

Valmont (1989) 153418
Set in Baroque , a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that...

The Scarlet and the Black (1983) 2k2j
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families....

The Changeling (1974) 1ve4
Sexual ion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. ...

To the Lighthouse (1983) 5rl35
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley,...

Pascali's Island (1988) fn3l
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who...

Longitude (2000) 2a4c1n
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988) 1b251j
The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a...

Silver Dream Racer (1980) 4u3f6c
Nick Freeman is a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race...

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) 691m2o
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...

All Creatures Great and Small (1975) 6n2216
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his...

Memed My Hawk (1984) 1xn2i
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the...

The Libertine (2004) 3d4630
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Percy (1971) 5u591j
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the...

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989) 2g5y6h
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major...

The Outsider (1979) 6e184r
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to the cause of his grandfather, Seamus...

The Quare Fellow (1962) 6s4p12
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...

Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut (2003) 1z3b6j
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

Stones (1976) 316h18
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

Britannia Hospital (1982) 6n314l
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

Moving on the Edge (1984) 495h1w
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

Pasmore (1980) 2d734
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

Lady Killer (1973) 6v361m
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

The Next Victim (1975) 3j4511
A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.

Deasey (Desperate) (1979) 282b5j
Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish...

Produced by Ireland's National Television with the assistance of Richard Ellmann, the program was shot in Joyce’s tracks in Dublin, Trieste,...

Johnny Nobody (1961) 5w165k
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob...

The Sweeney (1975) 5j5m6x
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

Thriller (1973) 2s6i11
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a...

Blake's 7 (1978) p572h
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

Doctor Who (1963) 532n51
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

The Avengers (1961) 1ce42
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an...

Heartbeat (1992) 182i1o
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Jason King (1971) 2i1s2t
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering...

Minder (1979) 6nmq
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Crown Court (1972) 4b41e
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

Rumpole of the Bailey (1975) 1e2c3p
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

The Saint (1962) 2q93s
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

Callan (1967) i6z25
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later...

Lovejoy (1986) 551o6a
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

Waking the Dead (2001) 3q4h3w
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) 4p1r3a
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Beasts (1976) 5m5s5x
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...

Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) b1z16
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...
The Venturers (1975) 534p60
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama...

No Hiding Place (1959) 47851
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

Target (1977) 4a3hn
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

The Duchess of Duke Street (1976) 2n554w
Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned...

Levkas Man (1981) 4r32r
Levkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove a theory about prehistoric man. It was shot on...

Fall of Eagles (1974) 5c5tj
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing...

Man in a Suitcase (1967) 5m4z8
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983) 11y31
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.

Lady Killers (1980) 4p3k2u
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

BBC Play of the Month (1965) 5a1f10
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

Quiller (1975) 501i1h
Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series...

Father Brown (1974) q5d6a
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.

Napoleon and Love (1974) 2f4r3v
Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series...

Thriller (1973) 2s6i11
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a...

BBC Play of the Month (1965) 5a1f10
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

Justice (1971) 1a4sx
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974....

Casualty (1986) 4a1cc
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

Casualty (1986) 4a1cc
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

Scarlet and Black (1993) 3x4m28
An ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.

Jack the Ripper (1988) 55411i
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified...

Kings in Grass Castles (1998) 6b6j39
The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century. Based on a 1959 book of history by Dame Mary Durack.

Manhunt (1970) 55p3x
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.

Longitude (2000) 2a4c1n
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve...

Crown Court (1972) 4b41e
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

Shoot to Kill (1990) 4i2g3k
A reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982...

Testament: The Bible in Animation (1996) x2i56
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer...

The Manions of America (1981) 204m1a
Epic mini-series chronicling the lives of two 19th-century families -- one Irish, the other English -- and the American family dynasties they began.

Bleak House (1985) 28303w
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it...

The Play on One (1988) 59jz
A series of plays specially written for television.

The Wednesday Play (1964) 6i14p
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988) hb2u
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik...

Holocaust (1978) 2k6j3l
Berlin, , 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the...

Liberation (1994) 4rl2
Epic independence fight in 21st century. Turkish independence war against occupying forces (Greece, England, , Italy) in her land.

The Troubleshooters (1965) 1h432
The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the...