Dan O'Herlihy
23 titles
Filmography
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Robinson Crusoe
(1954)The sole survivor of a 17th-century shipwreck washes ashore on a deserted island where he’s forced to carve out a new life with his bare hands.

Hunters of the Deep
(1955)Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish and mammals as well as ocean flora and rock formation.

Home Before Dark
(1958)Charlotte Bronn (Jean Simmons) walks out of a mental institution and back into the emotionally stunted life that sent her there,trapped in a chilly relationship with a husband (Dan O'Herlihy) who seems far more interested in Charlotte's stepsister Joan (RhondaFleming) than in his wife. Charlotte clings to the hope that she is improving. But on the night of an elegant party, dressed andcoiffed in an unsettling attempt to resemble Joan, she loses her frail self-control…and finally faces the truth about her marriage.Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity. EfremZimbalist, Jr. costars as a professor who offers Charlotte the compassionate support she needs, if she has the courage to accept it.Veteran Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, The Bad Seed) directs this poignant and penetrating tale of a mind and a marriage at acrossroads.

RoboCop
(1987)Paul Verhoeven's American breakthrough film, Robocop, is an exceedingly violent blend of black comedy, science fiction, and crime thriller. Set in Detroit sometime in the near future, the film is about a policeman (Peter Weller) killed in the line of duty whom the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop.

The Dead
(1987)Director John Huston’s last film weaves the story of a special occasion hosted by two sisters and how one sister’s grief for a lost lover is revealed.

One Foot in Hell
(1960)A man exacts revenge on a small town the best way he knows how -- by becoming sheriff.
Kidnapped
(1948)Based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson, this film combines action and adventure in an old world setting. When a young Scottish boy (Roddy McDowell, "Lassie, Come Home," "Planet of the Apes") is kidnapped in an attempt by his uncle to steal his inheritance, he is sold into slavery. From the director of the Bowery Boys movie series, William Beaudine.

The Quest: The Longest Drive
(1976)To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market. Join the epic action when a stableman, a retired gunslinger, a dried-out drunk and two sneaky rustlers, hit the dusty trail.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
(1982)An evil toymaker plans to sell millions of masks that will kill all children who wear them on Halloween.

Invasion, U.S.A.
(1952)Cold War psychological thriller about the invasion of the U.S.A. by an unknown enemy that begins atomic bombing on major cities, including New York.

The Tamarind Seed
(1974)During the Cold War, a British civil servant vacationing in the Caribbean falls for a charming Russian agent, who wants to win her over to his cause.

The Young Land
(1959)U.S. justice is on trial for the Mexican-American community in 1848 after a white gunslinger kiills a Mexican man in a newly-American California town.

The People
(1972)A woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley where the people appear stern and secretive. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Starring William Shatner

The Big Cube
(1969)When a vindictive heiress is forbidden by her stepmother to marry her boyfriend, she conspires to drive her insane. Her choice of weapon -- a "big cube" of LSD.

100 Rifles
(1969)Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch star in this late-1960s action Western set in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Reynolds plays Yaqui Joe, an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns for his repressed people, and subsequently flees to Mexico pursued by American lawman Sheriff Lyedecker (Brown).

The Virgin Queen
(1955)Bette Davis stars in this classic chronicle of the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England (Davis) and the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd).

The Last Starfighter
(1984)When Alex conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited to be part of an elite legion of fighters and battle for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds - including Earth.

RoboCop 2
(1990)The cyborg super-cop is back to save crime-riddled Detroit from a deadly drug and a new cybernetic nemesis in this sequel.

Fail Safe
(1964)A malfunction inadvertently sends American planes armed with nuclear warheads to Russia in a blunder of potentially apocalyptic proportions.

Imitation of Life
(1959)Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and John Gavin discover that it takes the realities of life to help us discover who we truly are in this classic, stirring drama of ambition directed by Douglas Sirk.