Maire O'Neill

Acting

Maire O'Neill

Born — Died

1886-01-11 — 1952-11-02

Place of birth

Dublin, Ireland

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Scrooge poster
7.4

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

Scrooge

1951

St. Martin's Lane poster
7.4

Pickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.

St. Martin's Lane

1938

Convoy poster
5.6

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Convoy

1940

Juno and the Paycock poster
4.6

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

Juno and the Paycock

1930

Love on the Dole poster
5.9

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Love on the Dole

1941

Peg of Old Drury poster
6.8

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

Peg of Old Drury

1935

Film credits

1950s · 5 titles

1940s · 14 titles

Convoy poster
5.6

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Convoy

1940

Love on the Dole poster
5.9

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Love on the Dole

1941

Piccadilly Incident poster
6.7

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

Piccadilly Incident

1946

The Hills of Donegal poster
4.5

Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).

The Hills of Donegal

1947

Murder in Reverse poster
6.7

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.

Murder in Reverse

1945

Send for Paul Temple poster
5.3

Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.

Send for Paul Temple

1946

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Those Kids from Town

1942

Penn of Pennsylvania poster
6.5

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.

Penn of Pennsylvania

1942

Let the People Sing poster
6.8

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Let the People Sing

1942

Great Day poster
7.4

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Great Day

1945

Theatre Royal poster
4.7

The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.

Theatre Royal

1943

Gaiety George poster
6.3

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.

Gaiety George

1946

Saints and Sinners poster
7.3

What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.

Saints and Sinners

1949

You Will Remember poster
7.0

Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.

You Will Remember

1941

1930s · 20 titles

St. Martin's Lane poster
7.4

Pickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.

St. Martin's Lane

1938

Juno and the Paycock poster
4.6

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures them into a false sense of prosperity. Captain Boyle, a boastful idler, squanders their meager resources, while his wife Juno holds the household together. When the fortune proves illusory, the family faces ruin, betrayal, and tragedy.

Juno and the Paycock

1930

Peg of Old Drury poster
6.8

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

Peg of Old Drury

1935

Spring Handicap poster
7.5

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

Spring Handicap

1937

Penny Paradise poster
6.7

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.

Penny Paradise

1938

Bulldog Drummond at Bay poster
6.3

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

1937

Sing As We Go poster
5.8

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Sing As We Go

1934

Come Out of the Pantry poster
9.0

A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.

Come Out of the Pantry

1935

Riders to the Sea poster
10.0

In this story of Western Ireland, the most famous work of Irelands greatest dramatist JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE is brought to the screen by Ulsters greatest film director BRIAN DESMOND HURST.

Riders to the Sea

1935

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery poster
7.2

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

1939

Oh, Boy! poster
9.0

A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...

Oh, Boy!

1938

On the Night of the Fire poster
5.4

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

On the Night of the Fire

1939

Ourselves Alone poster
7.5

In 1921, as Irish nationalists battle with British authorities, a young girl is torn between loyalty to her brother, an IRA leader, her fiance, a police inspector, and his comrade and rival in love, a British Army captain.

Ourselves Alone

1936

Glamorous Night poster
7.5

Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.

Glamorous Night

1937

Farewell Again poster
6.5

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.

Farewell Again

1937

No artwork available
9.0

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

Sword of Honour

1939

No artwork available
8.0

27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.

The Missing People

1939

Something Always Happens poster
6.5

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Something Always Happens

1934

My Irish Molly poster
9.0

Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.

My Irish Molly

1938

The Insect Play poster
7.0

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

The Insect Play

1939