Cast: Dan O'Herlihy
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dan O'Herlihy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Fail-Safe
1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver
Plot A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Imitation of Life
1959 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Lana Turner · John Gavin · Susan Kohner · Sandra Dee
Plot Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little...
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
Macbeth
1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Orson Welles
Cast Orson Welles · Jeanette Nolan · Dan O'Herlihy · Roddy McDowall
Plot Macbeth, a loyal henchman to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume great power. Driven by their prophecy, he plots with his...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
The Dead
1987 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany
Plot John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors,...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
Odd Man Out
1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick
Plot Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Waterloo
1970 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy
Direction Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast Rod Steiger · Christopher Plummer · Orson Welles · Jack Hawkins
Plot The film begins with Napoleon's forced abdication in 1814, after the battle of Leipzig. As the British contribution there was confined to one rocket artillery battery, to say (as the...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke · Jessica Tandy · Luther Adler
Plot James Mason is outstanding in the role of Field Marshal Rommel, the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps, which dominated North Africa during the early years of World War II, later...
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
QB VII (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1974 · Series · 390 min. · United States
Direction Tom Gries
Cast Ben Gazzara · Anthony Hopkins · Leslie Caron · Dan O'Herlihy
Plot A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
6.7
47 votes
6.7
47 votes
Home Before Dark
1958 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Jean Simmons · Dan O'Herlihy · Rhonda Fleming · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Plot Director Mervyn LeRoy's psychological drama follows recovering mental patient Charlotte (Jean Simmons), who leaves the secure confines of a psychiatric ward to return to the dysfunctional environment responsible for her...
6.5
129 votes
6.5
129 votes
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
1954 · Movie · 89 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Jaime Fernández · Felipe de Alba · Chel López
Plot While on a trip to acquire a boatload of slaves, Robinson Crusoe's (Dan O'Herlihy) ship is wrecked upon the shore of a remote island. There, he must learn to survive...
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Glen A. Larson · Donald P. Bellisario · Richard A. Colla · Vince Edwards
Cast Lorne Greene · Richard Hatch · Dirk Benedict · Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Plot TV Series (1978-1979). 24 Episodes. In a distant galaxy, twelve planets bearing tribes of the race known as Man have been at war with an alien cyborg race, the Cylon...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Operation Secret
1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Cornel Wilde · Steve Cochran · Phyllis Thaxter · Karl Malden
Plot While under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.
6.4
70 votes
6.4
70 votes
Buñuel en Hollywood (TV)
2000 · Documentary · 50 min. · Spain
Direction Félix Cábez
Cast Woody Allen · Juan Luis Buñuel · Jean-Claude Carrière · Dan O'Herlihy
6.3
34 votes
6.3
34 votes
One Foot in Hell
1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction James B. Clark
Cast Alan Ladd · Don Murray · Dan O'Herlihy · Dolores Michaels
Plot Mitch Garrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff,...
6.2
173 votes
6.2
173 votes
The Virgin Queen
1955 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Bette Davis · Richard Todd · Joan Collins · Jay Robinson
Plot Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England....
6.2
259 votes
6.2
259 votes
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Tony Curtis · Janet Leigh · David Farrar · Barbara Rush
Plot In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one...
6.2
799 votes
6.2
799 votes
The Cabinet of Caligari
1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Roger Kay
Cast Glynis Johns · Dan O'Herlihy · Richard Davalos · Lawrence Dobkin
Plot Jane's car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari...
6.1
76 votes
6.1
76 votes
The Tamarind Seed
1974 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Julie Andrews · Omar Sharif · Anthony Quayle · Dan O'Herlihy
Plot During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
6.0
291 votes
6.0
291 votes
MacArthur
1977 · Movie · 128 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Gregory Peck · Dan O'Herlihy · Ed Flanders · Sandy Kenyon
Plot The film follows the stormy career of General Douglas MacArthur from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 to his return as a hero to the USA. As a General, MacArthur's...
6.0
883 votes
6.0
883 votes
Robocop
1987 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Paul Verhoeven
Cast Peter Weller · Nancy Allen · Kurtwood Smith · Miguel Ferrer
Plot After Omni Consumer Products (OCP) announced that it bought out the Detroit police department, the department decides to go on strike. Alex Murphy, gets transferred from Metro South to the...
6.0
80K votes
6.0
80K votes