George Shane

George Shane

George Shane was a Northern Irish actor of stage and screen. His film credits included A Prayer for the Dying, An Everlasting Piece, and Closing the Ring. He died in Derry on 9th March, 2016 at the age of 71.

  • Title: George Shane
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  • Known For: Acting
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  • Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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George Shane Movies

  • 2007
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    Closing the Ring

    Closing the Ring

    6.1 2007 HD

    During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.

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  • 1998
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    Resurrection Man

    Resurrection Man

    6.1 1998 HD

    Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.

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  • 1990
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    Shoot to Kill

    Shoot to Kill

    1 1990 HD

    Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

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  • 1995
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    Beyond Reason

    Beyond Reason

    1 1995 HD

    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 an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.

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  • 2006
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    Wilderness

    Wilderness

    6.073 2006 HD

    Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.

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  • 1981
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    Maeve

    Maeve

    5.9 1981 HD

    Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.

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  • 1989
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    Chinese Whispers

    Chinese Whispers

    1 1989 HD

    Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.

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  • 1988
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    Crossfire

    Crossfire

    1 1988 HD

    A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.

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  • 1993
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    Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding

    1 1993 HD

    Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrounding her death, and he begins to realize that his lover was not what she seemed.

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  • 1984
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    Cal

    Cal

    5.7 1984 HD

    Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

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  • 1984
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    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    1 1984 HD

    Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.

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  • 1987
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    Lorna

    Lorna

    1 1987 HD

    In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.

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  • 1983
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    Acceptable Levels

    Acceptable Levels

    1 1983 HD

    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.

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  • 2003
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    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross

    5.5 2003 HD

    Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.

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  • 1992
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    You, Me & Marley

    You, Me & Marley

    6 1992 HD

    A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.

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  • 1978
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    The Legion Hall Bombing

    The Legion Hall Bombing

    1 1978 HD

    The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.

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  • 1986
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    Shergar

    Shergar

    1 1986 HD

    Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.

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  • 2000
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    An Everlasting Piece

    An Everlasting Piece

    5.9 2000 HD

    Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls

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  • 1984
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    Pigs

    Pigs

    2.333 1984 HD

    A group of unemployed and marginalised souls eke out a meagre living by drawing welfare and occupying a derelict squat in an apocalyptic inner city Dublin. Among the undesirables are a gay man estranged from his wife, a pimp and his prostitute, a destitute businessman, and a paranoiac. The makeshift family soon find themselves subject of intimidation from the State, along with other external forces.

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  • 1995
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    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    1 1995 HD

    Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.

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  • 1979
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    The Boxer

    The Boxer

    1 1979 HD

    It's 1975 in Belfast. Jimmy Doherty returns to his home town just having lost a boxing match in Dublin, where he has been living. He awakes in a rundown room and begins to take stock. He finds that things have changed and people have gone. He begins to search for Gerry Mitchell, a figure from his past. He runs into dead ends and in frustration begins to drink. In a bar, he meets two men who tell him they can take him to Gerry...

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  • 1979
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    The Last Window Cleaner

    The Last Window Cleaner

    1 1979 HD

    When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no one is what they seem and everyone has been living with 'the troubles' for far too long...

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  • 1987
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    A Prayer for the Dying

    A Prayer for the Dying

    5.84 1987 HD

    Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

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  • 1980
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    Juno and the Paycock

    Juno and the Paycock

    1 1980 HD

    During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock," Dudley Sutton played the role of Captain Jack Boyle, alongside Frances Tomelty as Juno. The play, written by Seán O'Casey, is set in Dublin during the Irish Civil War and centers on the Boyle family's experiences with an anticipated inheritance and the subsequent fallout.

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.7 1981 HD

    Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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  • 1987
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    Foreign Bodies

    Foreign Bodies

    5 1987 HD

    Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.

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  • 1991
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    So You Think You've Got Troubles

    So You Think You've Got Troubles

    6 1991 HD

    Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.

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  • 1990
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    Shoot to Kill

    Shoot to Kill

    5.5 1990 HD

    A reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

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  • 1995
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    The Hanging Gale

    The Hanging Gale

    4.3 1995 HD

    The Hanging Gale is a four-episode television serial which first aired on RTÉ One and BBC1 in 1995. The series was a British–Irish co-production, made by Little Bird Films for BBC Northern Ireland in association with Raidió Teilifís Éireann, with support from the Irish Film Board. The serial, set in 1846 at the beginning of Ireland's Great Famine, starred the four McGann brothers: Joe McGann, Paul McGann, Mark McGann and Stephen McGann, and was based on an original idea by Joe and Stephen McGann while researching their family's history. The title of the series comes from the term 'hanging gale', the name for a widespread practice in Ireland at the time, where a landlord would allow new tenants a six-month grace period on payment of their rent, with the expectation that the rent owed would be paid when the land's crops were harvested and sold.

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  • 1985
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    Screen Two

    Screen Two

    6.8 1985 HD

    Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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