P.H. Moriarty
P.H. Moriarty is a British actor best known for playing hard men and gangsters. He began acting late in life, having worked for many years in several professions including a boxer and a longshoresman. It was whilst working in the latter role that his film career started; a production company, shooting on the docks spotted him one day and asked him to act in their film. Moriarty's film credits include Guy Ritchie's feature film debut Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Long Good Friday, Jaws 3-D and the Western-inspired sci-fi film Outland (1981). He also has starred in various British television programmes and TV movies.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.207 |
Birthday | 1939-01-27 |
Place of Birth | Deptford, London, UK |
Also Known As | P. H. Moriarty, |
1998
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
8.118/6628
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull...
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1980
The Long Good Friday
7.1/358
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia t...
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The Long Good Friday
2007
The Riddle
4.8/23
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub...
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The Riddle
The Chelsea Cowboy
0/0
The rise and fall of underworld hard-man turned actor Bindon, who despite a successful acting career and passionate romantic liaisons with various soc...
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The Chelsea Cowboy
1985
Number One
5/2
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Number One
1980
Bloody Kids
6.2/9
Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulativ...
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Bloody Kids
1983
Jaws 3-D
4.5/1293
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
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Jaws 3-D
1992
Chaplin
7.435/1086
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...
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Chaplin
1991
Palmer
7/1
Eddie Palmer attempts to run a private investigation bureau while coping with eccentric staff, an acrimonious divorce and a wayward daughter.
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Palmer
2014
Evil Never Dies
4.8/8
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
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Evil Never Dies
1992
Patriot Games
6.68/1633
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1989
The Accountant
0/0
London middle class Jewish accountant Lionel is preparing for his son's bar mitzvah when he does a little favour for a friend, and ends up getting mi...
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The Accountant
1980
Fox
1/1
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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Fox
1979
Scum
7.107/193
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
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Scum
2005
Submerged
4.567/116
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The...
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Submerged
1983
Slayground
4.6/7
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and b...
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Slayground
1985
A Sense of Freedom
6.4/19
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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A Sense of Freedom
1981
Outland
6.4/606
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cos...
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Outland
2006
Manilla Envelopes
0/0
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and repor...
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Manilla Envelopes
1979
Quadrophenia
7/258
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While af...
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Quadrophenia
1990
Dear Sarah
0/0
Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as s...
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Dear Sarah
1983
The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
5/2
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
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The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
2021
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
5.694/31
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders i...
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
1982
Jake's End
0/0
' Motors can stall, shooters can jam. But Jake's end of it'll be all right.' Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain-and a...
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