T. P. McKenna
Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.899 |
| Birthday | 1929-09-07 |
| Place of Birth | Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland |
| Also Known As | T.P. McKenna, |
1971
Straw Dogs
7.151/901
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David an...
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Straw Dogs
1971
Villain
6.2/38
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
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Villain
1988
Red Scorpion
5.95/251
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians a...
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Red Scorpion
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
1970
The Beast in the Cellar
4.717/30
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...
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The Beast in the Cellar
1965
Ferry Cross the Mersey
6.3/7
Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students b...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965
Young Cassidy
6.2/18
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family,...
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Young Cassidy
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
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
1965
Deirdre
0/0
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats delibera...
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Deirdre
1961
Freedom to Die
5.2/3
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the c...
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Freedom to Die
1990
Shoot to Kill
0/0
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist...
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Shoot to Kill
2000
Monarch
6/1
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arr...
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Monarch
1982
Crimes
0/0
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committe...
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Crimes
1978
A Child's Voice
0/0
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, w...
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A Child's Voice
1964
Downfall
6.5/2
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
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Downfall
1970
The 5th Day of Peace
5.3/17
Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel...
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The 5th Day of Peace
1960
The Siege of Sidney Street
2/1
A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
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The Siege of Sidney Street
1986
Strong Medicine
7/1
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious...
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Strong Medicine
1970
Perfect Friday
6.568/22
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he de...
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Perfect Friday
1989
Valmont
6.712/250
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that h...
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Valmont
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
7/54
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His...
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The Scarlet and the Black
1974
The Changeling
7/1
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Fil...
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The Changeling
1983
To the Lighthouse
5.4/7
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spe...
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To the Lighthouse
1988
Pascali's Island
6.421/19
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who...
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Pascali's Island
2000
Longitude
7.3/29
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
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Longitude
1988
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
7/4
The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-c...
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1980
Silver Dream Racer
5.222/10
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is d...
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Silver Dream Racer
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
5.9/59
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1975
All Creatures Great and Small
6.568/22
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous...
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All Creatures Great and Small
1984
Memed My Hawk
5/3
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province'...
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Memed My Hawk
2004
The Libertine
5.894/439
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn p...
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The Libertine
2003
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
6/20
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
1971
Percy
4.3/10
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the d...
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Percy
1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
6.6/25
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is...
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1980
The Outsider
5.6/8
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterli...
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The Outsider
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
2003
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
7/1
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
1976
Stones
0/0
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
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Stones
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.4/60
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
1984
Moving on the Edge
0/0
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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Moving on the Edge
1980
Pasmore
0/0
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
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Pasmore
1973
Lady Killer
6.7/3
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
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Lady Killer
1975
The Next Victim
0/0
A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
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The Next Victim
1974
Percy's Progress
3.9/8
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
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Percy's Progress
1976
Beasts: Baby
0/0
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and...
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Beasts: Baby
1981
Random Moments in a May Garden
0/0
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
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Random Moments in a May Garden
1973
A Warm December
6.4/14
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attra...
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A Warm December
1970
The Rivals
6/1
The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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The Rivals
1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
7.026/116
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
6.3/51
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple wa...
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The Doctor and the Devils
1991
Events at Drimaghleen
0/0
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary te...
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Events at Drimaghleen
1969
Blood of the Lamb
0/0
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austria...
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Blood of the Lamb
1977
Love Lies Bleeding
0/0
Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are...
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Love Lies Bleeding
1988
Unreported Incident
0/0
Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixe...
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Unreported Incident
1984
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
0/0
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1978
Exposure
0/0
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel wit...
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