J.G. Devlin
James Gerard Devlin was a Northern Irish actor who made his stage debut in 1931, and had long association with the Ulster Group Theatre. In a career spanning nearly sixty years, he played parts in TV productions such as Z-Cars, Dad's Army, The New Avengers and Bread
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.228 |
Birthday | 1907-10-08 |
Place of Birth | Belfast - Northern Ireland |
Also Known As |
1991
The Miracle
5.8/18
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild storie...
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The Miracle
1962
I Thank a Fool
5.4/5
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
1961
Attempt to Kill
0/0
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears th...
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Attempt to Kill
1956
Jacqueline
6/3
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...
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Jacqueline
1962
The Hard Knock
0/0
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
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The Hard Knock
2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
0/0
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-prod...
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The Bannfoot Ferry
1988
The Raggedy Rawney
5.9/7
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to esca...
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The Raggedy Rawney
1961
Johnny Nobody
6.5/12
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...
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Johnny Nobody
1980
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
6.6/9
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
1985
No Surrender
6.2/10
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish...
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No Surrender
1970
The Reckoning
7.2/10
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to hi...
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The Reckoning
1959
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
6.7/146
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him...
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1972
Innocent Bystanders
7.2/4
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name...
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Innocent Bystanders
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
1964
The Comedy Man
7.2/4
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit...
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The Comedy Man
1992
Far and Away
6.759/1170
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklah...
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Far and Away
1961
The Frightened City
6.2/22
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in h...
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The Frightened City
1960
A Terrible Beauty
4.9/6
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...
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A Terrible Beauty
1959
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
9/1
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
1980
Chance of a Lifetime
0/0
Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in N...
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Chance of a Lifetime
1974
According to the Rules
0/0
When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. Bu...
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According to the Rules
1972
The Folk Singer
0/0
A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as...
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The Folk Singer
1972
Carson Country
0/0
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Prot...
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Carson Country
1967
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
5.6/5
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former com...
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1957
The Rising of the Moon
6.9/20
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...
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The Rising of the Moon
1969
Guns in the Heather
4.5/3
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass t...
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