Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.915 |
| Birthday | 1961-08-20 |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Also Known As |
2006
The Nativity Story
6.986/212
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua...
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The Nativity Story
2008
Happy-Go-Lucky
6.6/438
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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Happy-Go-Lucky
2004
The Libertine
5.9/441
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn p...
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The Libertine
2004
Wondrous Oblivion
6.6/16
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the fathe...
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Wondrous Oblivion
2005
Dot.Kill
4.4/17
Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As...
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Dot.Kill
2005
Isolation
5.4/177
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
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Isolation
2007
Flawless
6.684/523
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
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Flawless
2009
Holy Water
5.7/61
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its pe...
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Holy Water
2003
Monsieur N.
6.308/26
This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon...
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Monsieur N.
2011
Killing Bono
6.3/99
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 be...
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Killing Bono
1996
My Friend Joe
8.4/5
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they becom...
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My Friend Joe
2003
Mystics
5.2/9
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
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Mystics
2010
The Pizza Miracle
5/1
A pizza chef's death causes his son to reconsider their relationship.
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The Pizza Miracle
2013
Burton and Taylor
6.3/52
Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."
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Burton and Taylor
2013
Lovely Louise
5.3/3
André, 55, lives with his mother Louise, 80, and leads an unspectacular life. He works as a taxi driver while the elderly diva dreams of bygone days a...
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Lovely Louise
2014
Standby
6.088/34
Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his...
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Standby
2014
The Voices
6.244/1710
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving f...
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The Voices
2011
Cars 2
6.124/7626
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...
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Cars 2
2001
Rat
6.239/23
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wa...
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Rat
1993
In the Name of the Father
7.905/1710
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He a...
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In the Name of the Father
2013
The Physician
7.3/1049
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many ye...
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The Physician
2004
Fallen
6/1
Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to los...
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Fallen
2009
Hilde
5.4/13
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
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Hilde
2003
Byron
5/9
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
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Byron
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
6.667/1436
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
2001
Station Jim
7/1
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriende...
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Station Jim
2003
What a Girl Wants
6.256/1588
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...
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What a Girl Wants
2005
Omagh
6.6/21
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relativ...
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Omagh
2014
National Theatre Live: King Lear
6.9/7
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Co...
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National Theatre Live: King Lear
2019
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
8.5/14
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, be...
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National Theatre Live: All About Eve
1993
The Snapper
6.34/75
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father,...
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The Snapper
1996
The Van
6.338/68
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips w...
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The Van
2004
Inside I'm Dancing
7.406/202
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eile...
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Inside I'm Dancing
2018
The Current War
6.702/1042
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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The Current War
2013
One Chance
6.662/272
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night...
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One Chance
2019
A Girl From Mogadishu
5.8/4
The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.
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A Girl From Mogadishu
2019
The Song of Names
6.8/146
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his fi...
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The Song of Names
2019
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
5.852/54
On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.
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Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
1988
Ink
0/0
Graduation short from Paul Duane.
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Ink
2009
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
9.5/4
A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian...
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National Theatre Live: Phèdre
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
2022
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
0/0
Philip Parris Lynott took the world by storm when he dominated the stage with his most notable rock band Thin Lizzy. The Irish frontman battled his wa...
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Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2018
Psychomanteum
1/1
A portmanteau style feature length film made up of several very different short horror films shot in the UK.
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Psychomanteum
1988
Taffin
5.6/39
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
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Taffin
2000
Altmann's Tongue
0/0
A rare adaptation of a short story by cult American Horror Author Brian Evenson. The action involves three misfit characters who gather in a wood wher...
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Altmann's Tongue
2024
The Teacher
0/0
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with a volunteer...
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The Teacher
1995
Beyond Reason
0/0
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have...
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