Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyril Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
as Clemenceau
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more ...
As You Like It
1992
as Adam
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad ...
Far and Away
1992
as Danty Duff
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...
Memento Mori
1992
as Percy Mannering
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
The Fool
1990
as The Ballad Seller
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
1989
as Self
An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
as Doc Spencer
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a pi...
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989
as Lord Castlewelland
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and...
The Tenth Man
1988
as The Priest
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execu...
Little Dorrit
1987
as Frederick Dorrit
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Priest
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
as Charrington
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984
as Steiner
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for mo...
Rainy Day Women
1984
as Mr Reed
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of wa...
Don Camillo
1984
as vescovo
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
The Comedy of Errors
1983
as Aegeon
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...
The Outcasts
1983
as Myles Keenan
In pre-famine Ireland when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a magical world of the imagination through the mysteriou...
The Kingfisher
1983
as Hawkins
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
The Ghost Downstairs
1982
as Mr. Fishbane
British TV-Drama
The Ballroom of Romance
1982
as Mr. Dwyer
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Lovespell
1981
as Gormond of Ireland
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Andrina
1981
as Captain Bill Torvald
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the d...
True Confessions
1981
as Cardinal Danaher
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Cry of the Innocent
1980
as Tom Moloney
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a se...
Les Misérables
1978
as Fauchlevent
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
Poitín
1978
as Michil
A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
The Man with the Power
1976
as Adler
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual vo...
Fear in the City
1976
as Giacomo Masoni
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night p...
Children of Rage
1975
as David's father
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been g...
The Balloon Vendor
1974
as Balloon Vendor
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
The Abdication
1974
as Oxenstierna
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
Juggernaut
1974
as Major O'Neill
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
as Parkintosh
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
Horowitz in Dublin
1973
as Tom
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himse...
The Catholics
1973
as Father Manus
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin...
The Monkey's Paw
1973
as Mr. White
An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange possession he's acquired - a monkey's paw which ca...
The Homecoming
1973
as Sam
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and int...
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Gunsmith
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...
The Bloody Hands of the Law
1973
as The Judge
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the c...
All the Way Boys
1972
as Matto
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in ...
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
1972
as Mr. Reece
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
The Italian Connection
1972
as Corso
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispa...
Poet Game
1972
as Dr. Saunders
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against th...
Execution Squad
1972
as Stolfi
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begu...
Harold and Maude
1971
as Glaucus
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold ...
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
as Frederick Katzmann
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist politi...
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970
as Vicar Julian Ainsley
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wand...
King Lear
1970
as Albany
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom. Daughters Goneril and Regan profess th...
Brotherly Love
1970
as Dr. Maitland
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
David Copperfield
1969
as Barkis
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...
Galileo
1968
as Galileo
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Oedipus the King
1968
as Messenger
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invo...
Dial M for Murder
1967
as Chief Insp. Hubbard
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
The Taming of the Shrew
1967
as Grumio
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptis...
Fahrenheit 451
1966
as Captain Beatty
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to...
I Was Happy Here
1966
as Hogan
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to...
Where the Spies Are
1966
as Rosser
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co...
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as Control
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one...
A Passage to India
1965
as Mr Fielding
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, an...
Deirdre
1965
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...
80,000 Suspects
1963
as Father Maguire
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
The Power and the Glory
1963
as Tench
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant ...
The Wedding Dress
1963
as Mr Berry
Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset.
Don Juan in Hell
1962
as The Devil
The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil, ...
I Thank a Fool
1962
as Captain Ferris
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
as Dr. Grogan
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, some...
Johnny Nobody
1961
as Prosecuting Counsel O'Brien
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens...
Cradle of Genius
1960
as Self
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Greg...
Once Upon a Tram
1960
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city while enjoying the clatter and clang of the old How...
A Terrible Beauty
1960
as Jimmy Hannafin
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can h...
The Moon and Sixpence
1959
as Dr. Coutras
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Chris Noonan
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes ...
Floods of Fear
1958
as Peebles
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
Gideon's Day
1958
as Herbert 'Birdie' Sparrow
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
The Rising of the Moon
1957
as Inspector Michael Dillon (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashio...
Miracle in Soho
1957
as Sam Bishop
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets ...
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957
as Captain Sandy Rendel
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
The Spanish Gardener
1956
as Garcia
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harri...
Jacqueline
1956
as John Flannagan
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from ...
The Man Who Never Was
1956
as Taxi Driver
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
The Man in the Road
1956
as Dr. Kelly
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
The March Hare
1956
as Lazy Mangan
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell h...
Passage Home
1955
as Bohannon der Steward
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passe...
Saadia
1953
as Khadir
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
The Blue Veil
1951
as Frank Hutchins
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951
as Edward "Limey" Cockerell
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an ...
Soldiers Three
1951
as Pvt. Dennis Malloy
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Chauvelin
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Gone to Earth
1950
as Edward Marston
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack ...
W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
1950
Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute.
All Over the Town
1949
as Gerald Vane
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's par...
The Blue Lagoon
1949
as James Carter
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island...
The Small Back Room
1949
as Cpl. Taylor
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal office...
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949
as Duggie
A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Esther Waters
1948
as Fred
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter....
Escape
1948
as Rodgers
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Odd Man Out
1947
as Pat
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Once a Crook
1941
as Bill Hopkins
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Ra...
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941
as Postal Sorter
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an...
Guests of The Nation
1935
as IRA member
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond wit...
Knocknagow
1918
as Brian's child
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle. Adapte...