Bryan Murray

Acting

Bryan Murray

Born 1949-07-13 · Dublin, Ireland

Acting credits

The Professor and the Madman poster
7.1

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

The Professor and the Madman

2019

Boy Eats Girl poster
4.9

A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

Boy Eats Girl

2005

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8.0

A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.

Betzi

1978

Torment poster
NR

A woman unable to grieve fixates on an architect as her escalating madness consumes her.

Torment

2018

Mrs. Santa Claus poster
6.2

Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the neighborhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Mrs. Santa Claus

1996

The Weight of Eyes poster
10.0

An architect finds himself fighting for his life and sanity when subjected to physical and psychological torture at the hands of a grief-stricken couple.

The Weight of Eyes

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6.5

Wilson Pomade, a totally insignificant but pleasant young man, has gone through life unnoticed and unrecognized by others until one day when he encounters the beautiful and elegant Marian Pronkridge, whose only flaw is her blindness. Wilson saves Marian's life, but is overwhelmed by her beauty, unable to speak with her and runs away. However, fate or is it destiny...brings the two together again and they embark on a journey of personal discovery that culminates in a significant, yet unexpected twist in "The Disturbance at Dinner".

The Disturbance at Dinner

1998

Interviewers From Hell poster
NR

John Cleese training video about interviewers

Interviewers From Hell

1989

Rifleman poster
NR

Private Semple returns to his Antrim home after the Battle of the Somme, the village's sole survivor from all the 'brave boys of Ulster' who volunteered; but the battle scars go far deeper than anyone suspects.

Rifleman

1980

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NR

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book written by Joyce's friend, the artist Frank Budgen, entitled "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses". Amongst those interviewed is author Anthony Burgess.

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

1988

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie poster
NR

As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's political powerful father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Arrested for corrupting Lord Douglas' morals, Wilde spends a debilitating five years in Reading Gaol, emerging a shattered shell of his former self

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

1985

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man poster
6.3

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 of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty, and politics. However, his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977

Gates of Gold poster
7.0

Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the area, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet Presbyterian backwaters. The year is 1959.

Gates of Gold

1983

Bread or Blood poster
NR

Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century

Bread or Blood

1981

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain poster
7.0

Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but feels lost in the traffic.

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain

1981

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol poster
5.8

On the anniversary of Jacob Marley's death, his business partner Ebenezer Scrooge finds unwelcome company in the form of three spirits from Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

2012

10 Arenas of Marwood poster
5.0

Marwood has become addicted to running a clinic that treats addiction. He decides to solve his problems with landlords, the taxman, and the authorities by making a film about them. But first, he must confront the nature of his own addiction.

10 Arenas of Marwood

2011