Pauline Delaney

Acting

Pauline Delaney

Born 1925-06-08 · Dublin, Ireland

Pauline Delaney was an Irish stage, screen and television actress. Born in Dublin Delaney trained at the Brendan Smith Academy of Acting and then went on to make her mark at the Globe Theatre. She later took her talents to London and enjoyed a highly successful career in British theatre and television. Despite being based in London she still found time to act in Dublin. Her daughter Sarah remembers her as being "tremendously proud of being Irish and most especially of being a Dubliner".

Acting credits

Fothergill poster
NR

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.

Fothergill

1981

Brannigan poster
6.0

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.

Brannigan

1975

Circle of Friends poster
6.3

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?

Circle of Friends

1995

No artwork available
NR

Can Theodore Quill, a self-styled Casanova, face the truth of his affairs?

Love Life

1967

Trenchcoat poster
5.8

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Trenchcoat

1983

Young Cassidy poster
6.4

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.

Young Cassidy

1965

Percy poster
4.3

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...

Percy

1971

Nothing But the Best poster
6.1

Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!

Nothing But the Best

1964

The Quare Fellow poster
5.7

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 meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

The Quare Fellow

1962

The Policeman and the Cook poster
10.0

Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.

The Policeman and the Cook

1970

The Achurch Letters poster
NR

1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.

The Achurch Letters

1977

No artwork available
NR

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

The Seagull

1978

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective poster
6.2

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

The Very Edge poster
5.3

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.

The Very Edge

1963

The Love Ban poster
3.6

In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

The Love Ban

1973

The Kitchen poster
NR

Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - where it was the first widely recognized production by Théâtre du Soleil in 1967, Moscow, Montreal and Zurich.

The Kitchen

1977

The Two Faces of Evil poster
5.6

A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.

The Two Faces of Evil

1980

No artwork available
10.0

A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

Bam! Pow! Zap!

1969

Your Man from Six Counties poster
10.0

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past.

Your Man from Six Counties

1976

Ambush in Leopard Street poster
6.3

A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise

Ambush in Leopard Street

1962

No artwork available
6.2

A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover.

A Question of Suspense

1961