Acting
Shelah Richards
Born 1903-05-23 · Dublin, Ireland
Acting credits
5.8Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Hungry Hill
1947
6.4Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of "Othello," is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. The man relays to Welles a strange tale of an encounter he had once before at the same isolated location.
Return to Glennascaul
1952
10.0Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904. Oscar Nominee: Best Documentary Short
Cradle of Genius
1960
A sculptor is tortured from childhood by jealousy of the son of the woman who had him trained, but marriage and a family cures him.
My Hands Are Clay
1948
5.0During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives.
Guests of The Nation
1935
10.0In 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