Stanley Townsend
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1961-08-20
Place of Birth:Dublin, Ireland
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
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.

The Nativity Story (2006)
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and...

The Libertine (2004)
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...

Wondrous Oblivion (2004)
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...

Dot.Kill (2005)
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...

Isolation (2005)
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Flawless (2007)
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

Altmann's Tongue (2000)
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...

National Theatre Live: Phèdre (2009)
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...

Holy Water (2009)
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...

Monsieur N. (2003)
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...

Killing Bono (2011)
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...

My Friend Joe (1996)
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...

Mystics (2003)
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

The Pizza Miracle (2010)
A pizza chef's death causes his son to reconsider their relationship.

The Miracle (1991)
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...

Burton and Taylor (2013)
Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye (2022)
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...

Psychomanteum (2018)
A portmanteau style feature length film made up of several very different short horror films shot in the UK.

Lovely Louise (2013)
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...

The Teacher (2024)
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his...

Taffin (1988)
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.

Standby (2014)
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...

The Voices (2014)
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...

Cars 2 (2011)
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...

Rat (2001)
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...

Beyond Reason (1995)
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...

In the Name of the Father (1993)
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...

The Physician (2013)
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...

Fallen (2004)
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...

Hilde (2009)
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Byron (2003)
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Station Jim (2001)
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...

What a Girl Wants (2003)
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,...

Omagh (2005)
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...

National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014)
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,...

National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
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....

The Van (1996)
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...

The Snapper (1993)
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...

Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
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...

The Current War (2018)
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

One Chance (2013)
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...

A Girl From Mogadishu (2019)
The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.

The Song of Names (2019)
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the...

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019)
On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.

Saddam's Tribe (2007)
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought a dramatic end to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. But behind the headlines lay an even more extraordinary story...

Another Turn of the Screw (1970)
England 1907: A young woman achieves her ambition to work as assistant to the great novelist Henry James; but her arrival at his lonely coastal home...

Kinked (2023)
Having recently lost a close friend, a young woman explores her sexuality as a way of processing trauma, as well as joy. However, disrupting this...

One Night Only (1970)
Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd...

Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott (2006)
A look at the life of Phil Lynott, lead singer of the band; a man whose talent was known worldwide, but whose early life was less well documented....

Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it...

Heartbeat (1992)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Spooks (2002)
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The...

Sherlock (2010)
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

The Commander (2003)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.

Zen (2011)
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology...

Quirke (2014)
Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates...

Galavant (2015)
Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to...

Murder City (2004)
Murder City is a British police drama that centres on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases.

Ballykissangel (1996)
A young British priest adjusts to life in a rural Irish community where life revolves around the church and the local pub. Everyone knows everyone...

Fresh Meat (2011)
A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!

Toast of London (2013)
Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

Hustle (2004)
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Peak Practice (1993)
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

The Ambassador (1998)
The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC written by Hugh Costello. The series starred Pauline Collins in the title...

Jonathan Creek (1997)
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

Waking the Dead (2001)
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Wire in the Blood (2002)
Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from...

Death in Paradise (2011)
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

Becoming Elizabeth (2022)
The fascinating story of the early life of England’s most iconic Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who became embroiled in the...

Ripper Street (2012)
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division...

Fleming (2014)
Set at the outbreak of WWII – mischievous playboy Ian Fleming is untroubled by the specter of impending war – chasing women, collecting...

Jake's Progress (1995)
Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.

Call the Midwife (2012)
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling...

Whistleblower (2008)
Whistleblower is a two-part IFTA-winning fact-based RTÉ drama which focuses on the Michael Neary scandal that erupted in the 1990s. Neary is a...

Blackshore (2024)
A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark...

The Regime (2024)
The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.

Resistance (2019)
This follow up to the Rebellion miniseries unfolds at the height of what became known as Ireland's War of Independence, and follows the lives of...

Star Wars: Andor (2022)
In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical...

The Hollow Crown (2012)
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

The Spy (2019)
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.

KAOS (2024)
As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.