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...
Complete Filmography
Private Peaceful
2012
Director
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
2001
Director
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
1998
Director
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Inventing the Abbotts
1997
Director
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
1995
Director
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
1993
Director
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
1991
Director
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
1990
Director
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
The January Man
1989
Director
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
1988
Director
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
A Month in the Country
1987
Director
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
1984
Director
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
1984
Director, Producer
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
1982
Director
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Mobile Homes
1979
Director
Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.