Pat O'Connor

Pat O'Connor

1943-01-01 Ardmore, Ireland 15 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director. In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, County Mayo. He also directed Trevor's One of Ourselves for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, Co. Waterford. O'Connor has b...

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Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012

Director

6.6
Directing

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...

Sweet November

Sweet November

2001

Director

6.9
Directing

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very differ...

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998

Director

5.9
Directing

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997

Director

6.3
Directing

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, love...

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends

1995

Director

6.3
Directing

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. ...

Zelda

Zelda

1993

Director

Directing

Famous 1920s modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he...

Force of Duty

Force of Duty

1991

Director

Directing

RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually ...

Fools of Fortune

Fools of Fortune

1990

Director

5.3
Directing

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

The January Man

The January Man

1989

Director

5.0
Directing

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A we...

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars

1988

Director

4.4
Directing

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country

1987

Director

6.4
Directing

A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village...

Cal

Cal

1984

Director

5.8
Directing

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year e...

Night in Tunisia

Night in Tunisia

1984

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A widower tries to spark his son's interest in music in this period drama set in a seaside holiday setting in Ireland in the early 1960's.

The Ballroom of Romance

The Ballroom of Romance

1982

Director

7.2
Directing

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Mobile Homes

1979

Director

Directing

Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.