David Kelly
David Kelly (July 11, 1929 – February 12, 2012) was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, Kelly was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned Devine.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.692 |
| Birthday | 1929-07-11 |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Also Known As | 大衛·凱利, |
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7.05/14751
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1998
Waking Ned
7.1/279
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
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Waking Ned
1992
Into the West
6.558/43
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
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Into the West
2001
Greenfingers
6.308/65
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their im...
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Greenfingers
2001
Mean Machine
6.227/553
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and h...
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Mean Machine
2006
The Kovak Box
5.9/102
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happ...
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The Kovak Box
1964
Girl with Green Eyes
6.7/28
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
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Girl with Green Eyes
1977
The Purple Taxi
5.84/25
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patien...
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The Purple Taxi
2003
Mystics
5.2/9
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
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Mystics
2000
Rough for Theatre I
4/1
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the me...
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Rough for Theatre I
1995
The Run of the Country
7/9
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
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The Run of the Country
1994
A Man of No Importance
6.2/15
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and...
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A Man of No Importance
2007
Stardust
7.278/3918
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...
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Stardust
2004
The Calcium Kid
5.6/51
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world s...
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The Calcium Kid
1983
The Jigsaw Man
4.833/33
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to...
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The Jigsaw Man
2004
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
5.545/604
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device be...
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2002
The Last
0/0
A short film about a shoemaker who pledged his fiancé he would make her the most beautiful pair of shoes for their wedding. Now, some fifty years late...
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The Last
1970
The McKenzie Break
6.019/26
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
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The McKenzie Break
1986
Pirates
6.205/249
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a...
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Pirates
1970
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
4.7/7
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung...
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1969
The Italian Job
6.99/704
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose...
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The Italian Job
2000
Ordinary Decent Criminal
6.1/219
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determin...
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
1983
Red Monarch
4.667/9
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still...
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Red Monarch
1967
Ulysses
6/16
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship a...
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Ulysses
2002
Puckoon
6.6/5
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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Puckoon
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.839/28
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1978
The Light Princess
7/1
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
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The Light Princess
1962
The Quare Fellow
5.8/9
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 meti...
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The Quare Fellow
1983
The Comedy of Errors
6.7/3
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just de...
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The Comedy of Errors
1984
Anne Devlin
5/1
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
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Anne Devlin
1978
The Legion Hall Bombing
0/0
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this...
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The Legion Hall Bombing
2004
Laws of Attraction
5.804/405
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
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Laws of Attraction
1974
Fugitive
0/0
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts r...
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Fugitive
1975
Philadelphia, Here I Come
6.8/5
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come
1973
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
6.6/5
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
1958
Dublin Nightmare
5.5/3
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
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Dublin Nightmare
1988
Joyriders
0/0
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
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Joyriders
1977
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6/5
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1966
Billy Budd
0/0
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
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Billy Budd
1997
The Matchmaker
6.3/43
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory,...
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The Matchmaker
1995
Moondance
5.6/11
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brothe...
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Moondance
1956
The Wrong Man
7.1/513
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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The Wrong Man
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
8/3
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
1970
Young Man in Trouble
0/0
A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise.
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Young Man in Trouble
1974
The Virgins
0/0
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.
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