Milo O’Shea

Milo O’Shea

1926-06-02 Dublin, Irish Free State 55 Credits

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Mystics

Mystics

2003

as Locky

5.3
Acting

A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

Puckoon

Puckoon

2002

as Sgt. McGillikuddie

6.2
Acting

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

Rough for Theatre I

Rough for Theatre I

2000

as B

4.0
Acting

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...

Swing Vote

Swing Vote

1999

as Justice Harlan Greene

5.6
Acting

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious...

The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy

1998

as Father Sullivan

6.8
Acting

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

1997

as Dermot O'Brien

6.2
Acting

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,...

The Playboys

The Playboys

1992

as Freddie

6.0
Acting

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...

Only the Lonely

Only the Lonely

1991

as Doyle

6.0
Acting

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns the...

Opportunity Knocks

Opportunity Knocks

1990

as Max

5.7
Acting

Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine th...

The Dream Team

The Dream Team

1989

as Dr. Newald

6.2
Acting

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accident...

Angel in Green

Angel in Green

1987

as Father Mahon

5.2
Acting

While a group of Special Forces train a village to defend itself against Terrorists, the Captain of the group locks horns with the resident America Nu...

Broken Vows

Broken Vows

1987

as Monsignor Casey

5.0
Acting

When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes hi...

Once a Hero

Once a Hero

1987

as Abner Bevis

Acting

In a world gone mad, one man lives to turn wrong to right, bad to good, and despicable to black-and-blue. One man lives to beat back the forces of evi...

Arena

Arena

1985

as Dr. Duran Duran

8.0
Acting

Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s populari...

The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985

as Father Donnelly

7.4
Acting

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. ...

The Verdict

The Verdict

1982

as Judge Hoyle

7.4
Acting

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...

A Time for Miracles

A Time for Miracles

1980

6.0
Acting

Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tr...

The Pilot

The Pilot

1980

as Doctor O'Brian

6.7
Acting

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an ...

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

1980

as Michael Higgins

Acting

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court u...

Arabian Adventure

Arabian Adventure

1979

as Khasim

5.8
Acting

An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by ...

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

1977

as Brisly

7.0
Acting

A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.

Circasia

Circasia

1976

as Clown

5.0
Acting

Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.

Percy's Progress

Percy's Progress

1974

as Dr. Klein

3.6
Acting

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.

Professor Popper's Problems

Professor Popper's Problems

1974

6.0
Acting

Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's no...

Monster

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his form...

Magic Powder

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an a ntidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his for...

Into the Unknown

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his form...

Follow That Skate

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his form...

Pursued

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his form...

Descent to Danger

1974

Acting

An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his form...

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

1973

as Dr. Jameson

4.6
Acting

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

1973

as Doctor Popplewell

6.8
Acting

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at th...

Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood

1973

as Inspector Boot

6.7
Acting

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

And No One Could Save Her

And No One Could Save Her

1973

as Patrick Dooley

6.0
Acting

The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to...

The Love Ban

The Love Ban

1973

as Father Andrew

3.0
Acting

In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

Sacco & Vanzetti

Sacco & Vanzetti

1971

as Fred Moore

7.6
Acting

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist politi...

The Angel Levine

The Angel Levine

1970

as Dr. Arnold Berg

5.7
Acting

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He...

Loot

Loot

1970

as Mr. McLeavy

5.8
Acting

Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral ...

Paddy

Paddy

1970

as Harry Redmond

Acting

An Irish lover tries to juggle varied sexual encounters with uninspired home life in ordinary comedy-drama.

The Adding Machine

The Adding Machine

1969

as Mr. Zero

5.5
Acting

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

Barbarella

Barbarella

1968

as Concierge / Durand-Durand

6.0
Acting

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual peop...

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

1968

as Friar Laurence

7.4
Acting

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their dest...

Journey Into Darkness

Journey Into Darkness

1968

as Matt Dystal

Acting

"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown 1968)": 'The New People (19...

Our World

Our World

1967

as Self

Acting

Various international presentions are featured through satellite uplink.

Ulysses

Ulysses

1967

as Leopold Bloom

6.0
Acting

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...

Silent Song

Silent Song

1966

as Brother Arnold

Acting

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?

1965

as Henry Wilkes

Acting

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.

Never Put It in Writing

Never Put It in Writing

1964

as Danny O'Toole

Acting

An executive, passed over for a promotion, sends an angry letter to his bosses while in Ireland. Learning he's up for a better job, he rushes to retri...

Carry On Cabby

Carry On Cabby

1963

as Len

6.5
Acting

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears ...

Night School

1960

as Walter 'Wally' Street

Acting

The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant.

This Other Eden

This Other Eden

1959

as Pat Tweedy

Acting

A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects ...

Rooney

Rooney

1958

as Hurling Fan

5.5
Acting

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Talk of a Million

Talk of a Million

1951

as Signwriter

Acting

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the sce...

Contraband

Contraband

1940

as Air Raid Warden

6.9
Acting

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved ...

Contraband

Contraband

1940

as Air Raid Warden (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved ...