Acting

Dermot Kelly

Born 1917-05-15 · County Laois, Irish Republic

Acting credits

The Yellow Rolls-Royce poster
6.1

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964

The Wrong Arm of the Law poster
6.7

The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.

The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963

Crooks Anonymous poster
6.1

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Crooks Anonymous

1962

Breakout poster
7.1

In 1943, an Italian-administered POW camp for captured Allies embark on a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.

Breakout

1959

Malta Story poster
6.3

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

Malta Story

1953

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

Cover Girl Killer poster
5.1

A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.

Cover Girl Killer

1959

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter poster
5.1

Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

1968

Cup Fever poster
8.0

The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. But Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with boss man Matt Busby.

Cup Fever

1965

Staircase poster
5.7

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

Staircase

1969

The Plank poster
6.2

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

The Plank

1967

Devil's Bait poster
7.0

The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.

Devil's Bait

1959

Another Shore poster
5.7

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Another Shore

1948

Gold Is Where You Find It poster
7.0

A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold rush.

Gold Is Where You Find It

1968

No artwork available
5.0

An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.

Broth of a Boy

1959

The Criminals poster
NR

A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.

The Criminals

1958

Sally's Irish Rogue poster
10.0

A sincere young woman straightens out a wild and irresponsible ladies man

Sally's Irish Rogue

1960

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize poster
7.4

A 1968 British musical short film (30 mins) starring Judy Huxtable and Anthony May. It was directed by Douglas Hickox. It tells the story of a young man (May) cycling around the Hampstead (NW3) area of London on a Raleigh RSW16. After crashing into a billboard he falls in love with a fashion model (Huxtable) depicted on it. Despite the title, the Belsize Park area does not actually feature. There is almost no spoken dialogue, and the soundtrack to the film is musical virtually throughout. The title song of the film has been a hit for Mireille Mathieu and Engelbert Humperdinck (a top ten hit in the UK and a top 40 hit in the USA) amongst others. The title is derivative of the French film, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; apart from a musical theme there is no other obvious link.

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

1968

No artwork available
8.0

Children decide to keep the local newspaper running while their father is ill.

Headline Hunters

1968