Connection
Brefni O'Rorke is a Actor Irlandais born on 26 june 1889 at Dublin (Irlande)
Brefni O'Rorke (1889–1946) was an Irish film actor. He was the stepfather of Cyril Cusack.
Source : Wikidata
Brefni O'Rorke
- Infos
- Photos
- Best films
- Family
- Characters
- Awards
Usually with
Filmography of Brefni O'Rorke (32 films)
Actor
Add to a movie list
Jassy (1947)
, 1h40Directed by Bernard Knowles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Ernest Thesiger, Nora Swinburne, Basil Sydney
Roles Fielding - Footman
Rating63%
A fine country estate has just been lost at the roll of a dice, and the Hatton family have to move out as the Helmars take possession.
The Root of All Evil (1947)
, 1h50Directed by Brock Williams
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, John McCallum, Brefni O'Rorke, Moore Marriott, Hazel Court
Roles Farnish
Rating66%
Jeckie Farnish (Calvert) has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle (John McCallum), but takes him for granted and feels that he lacks the spark or ambition to match her determination to make something of herself. Instead she pursues Albert Grice (Hubert Gregg), son of a wealthy grocery store owner, and believes they have an understanding. She is horrified when Albert goes on holiday, and returns newly married to another woman.
The Upturned Glass (1947)
, 1h30Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Morland Graham, Brefni O'Rorke, Henry Oscar
Roles Dr. Farrell
Rating68%
A medical school class attends a lecture on the psychology of crime. The unnamed lecturer (James Mason) announces that while his past lectures have covered criminals with abnormal psychology, today's lecture will focus on "the sane criminal" who may have a "strong sense of justice". He then describes the case of a murderer who is a "perfectly sane, valuable member of society", a surgeon to whom he gives the fictitious name of "Michael Joyce" (also played by Mason). The film depicts Michael's story in flashbacks narrated by the lecturer, indicating to the film viewing audience that unbeknownst to the medical school class, the lecturer is telling his own story and that he and Michael are one and the same.
Green Fingers (1947)
Directed by John Harlow
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer, Moore Marriott, Brefni O'Rorke
Roles Coroner
Rating60%
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
, 1h52Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Brenda Bruce
Roles Michael O'Callaghan
Rating69%
In May 1944, during World War II, when nationalistic Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) turns 21, she sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream engendered by listening to her late father's stories of the Irish Revolution. She leaves her small rural village and goes to Dublin. On the way, she shares a train compartment with J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), but believing him to be English, she is very brusque with him. Once in the city, she seeks out a famous ex-radical her father had supposedly fought alongside, Michael O'Callaghan (Brefni O'Rorke), and asks him to help her join the Irish Republican Army. However, he has mellowed as the situation in Ireland has improved and tries unsuccessfully to dissuade her from her overly romantic notion.
Perfect Strangers (1945)
, 1h42Directed by Alexander Korda
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason
Roles Mr. Hargrove
Rating70%
Robert and Cathy Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr) are a timid married couple in 1940 London. He is a bookkeeper, she a bored housewife. However, their tedium-filled lives are drastically changed by the war. He enlists in the Royal Navy, while she (against his wishes) joins the Wrens. During the three years the couple are apart, they are transformed, each becoming much more self-confident.
The Rake's Progress (1945)
, 2hDirected by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones, Margaret Johnston, Guy Middleton
Roles Bromhead
Rating65%
The plot follows the career of upper-class cad Vivian Kenway (Rex Harrison). He is sent down from Oxford University for placing a chamber pot on the Martyrs' Memorial. Sent to South America, he rebels against plantation life, eventually becoming a car racing driver. He descends to a life of woman-chasing and drunkenness, which causes the death of his father, Colonel Kenway (Godfrey Tearle). The plot diverges from the theme of the Rake's Progress paintings by having him redeem himself by a hero's death in World War II.
They Were Sisters (1945)
, 1h55Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, Thorley Walters, Hugh Sinclair
Roles Coroner
Rating67%
The film focuses on the lives of three sisters; Lucy (Phyllis Calvert), Charlotte (Dulcie Gray) and Vera (Anne Crawford). The film opens at a dance in 1919, establishing the personalities of the four main protagonists and following them through courtship and marriage. While the sisters have remained close to one another over the years, both their characters and the paths down which their lives have travelled are very different. Lucy is the most stable of the three, a sensible and practical woman in a happy marriage, whose greatest sadness in life is her inability to have children which she sublimates by lavishing affection on her nephews and nieces. Vera is married with a child but the relationship is humdrum and loveless and she is restless and bored with her dreary home life, indulging her appetite for adventure and excitement through a series of flirtations with other men which sometimes go beyond the bounds of the socially acceptable towards the promiscuous. Charlotte is a cowed, fearful and flinching drudge, suffering severe physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her manipulative, brutal husband Geoffrey (James Mason), who constantly belittles and humiliates her in front of their three children.
Murder in Reverse? (1945)
, 1h20Directed by Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Chili Bouchier, Brefni O'Rorke, John Slater, Dinah Sheridan
Roles Sullivan
Rating68%
After many years serving a prison sentence for a murder he didn't commit, a man tries to seek the truth behind the crime and search out the real culprit. This has complex consequences. His life has been altered as he was taken from his beloved daughter (Clark) who has now grown up not knowing her true identity (Sheridan as an adult). He seeks revenge on his awful degenerate wife (Bouchier) and the man he was accused of murdering.
Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Richard Greene, Alfred Drayton, Patricia Medina, Moore Marriott, David Horne, Joan Hickson
Roles Charles, Lord Chaunduyt
Rating64%
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
, 1h37Directed by Karel Lamač
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Beatty, Marjorie Rhodes, Kathleen Harrison, Ernest Butcher, Moore Marriott, Judy Kelly
Roles Engineer
Rating65%
Tawny Pipit (1944)
, 1h21Directed by Bernard Miles, Charles Saunders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis, Jean Gillie, Lucie Mannheim, Brefni O'Rorke
Roles Uncle Arthur
Rating65%
During the Second World War Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis), a fighter pilot just released from hospital, and his nurse (now his girlfriend) Hazel Broome (Rosamund John) are on a walking tour through the countryside. They arrive at the fictional village of Lipsbury Lea and, being keen birdwatchers, discover that a pair of tawny pipits, which are rarely seen in England, are nesting nearby.
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
, 1h24Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister, Mary Clare, Richard Attenborough, Niall MacGinnis
Rating59%
Un comptable se trouve obligé de trouver un deuxième travail dans un champ de courses au guichet des paris. Il va se trouver mêlé aux agissements de criminels.
The Flemish Farm (1943)
, 1h22Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter, Wylie Watson, Philip Friend, Ronald Squire
Roles Minister
Rating59%
In May 1940, as German forces sweep across France and Belgium, the remains of the Belgian Air Force are bottled up near the Flemish coast, and billeted at a farm in the Flemish countryside. Ordered by their government to surrender, the commander gives orders that the regimental colours be honorably buried, rather than surrendered to the invaders. The few pilots with serviceable aeroplanes fly to England to join the Allied airforces, while those remaining are forced to surrender.
The Lamp Still Burns (1943)
, 1h27Directed by Maurice Elvey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle, Cathleen Nesbitt, Margaret Vyner, John Laurie
Roles Mr. Lorrimer
Rating61%
During the Second World War, Laurence Rains (Stewart Granger) is annoyed when female architect Hilary Clarke (Rosamund John) insists he must enlarge the first aid room in his factory to satisfy government regulations, despite having the best safety record in the country. He encounters her once again, now a nurse trainee assisting a doctor treat one of his employees. He finds out that Clarke only became an architect to please her father, who had no sons to follow in his profession. When she saw how her young assistant at her firm, seriously injured in a traffic accident, was tended to by the nurses, she found her true vocation. Pamela Siddell (Margaret Vyner), a violinist and Rains' fiancee, sees his attraction to Clarke.