Dermot Walsh

Acting

Dermot Walsh

Born 1924-09-10 · Dublin, Ireland

Acting credits

Sea of Sand poster
6.5

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.

Sea of Sand

1958

The Wicked Lady poster
4.9

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.

The Wicked Lady

1983

Emergency poster
6.0

When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.

Emergency

1962

The Hide-Out poster
4.4

An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.

The Hide-Out

1956

Torment poster
7.0

A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. They are both in love with their shared-stenographer-secretary.

Torment

1950

The Flesh and the Fiends poster
6.6

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

The Flesh and the Fiends

1960

The Blue Parrot poster
5.9

'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.

The Blue Parrot

1953

Counterspy poster
6.3

While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.

Counterspy

1953

The Challenge poster
5.5

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

The Challenge

1960

My Sister and I poster
7.0

A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.

My Sister and I

1948

Echo of Diana poster
5.8

When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.

Echo of Diana

1963

Bedelia poster
5.3

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

Bedelia

1946

The Tell-Tale Heart poster
6.1

A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

The Tell-Tale Heart

1960

A Woman of Mystery poster
6.0

UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.

A Woman of Mystery

1958

To the Public Danger poster
6.2

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

To the Public Danger

1948

Ghost Ship poster
5.3

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.

Ghost Ship

1952

Hungry Hill poster
5.8

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Hungry Hill

1947

Bond of Fear poster
6.5

An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

Bond of Fear

1956

The Breaking Point poster
5.8

A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.

The Breaking Point

1961

The Cool Mikado poster
9.0

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.

The Cool Mikado

1963

The Bandit Of Zhobe poster
10.0

British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.

The Bandit Of Zhobe

1959

The Switch poster
7.0

A wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.

The Switch

1963

The Frightened Man poster
6.5

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

The Frightened Man

1952

Third Time Lucky poster
7.5

A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.

Third Time Lucky

1949