Movies by Niall MacGinnis
As part of the cast:
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The War Lord (1965)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth …
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Chrysagon (Charlton Heston), a feudal knight in the service of a duke, is assigned to guard a coastal village. With the help of his brother, Draco (Guy Stockwell), and a jester (Richard…
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner …
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), a British Intelligence agent getting ready to retire, must undertake a final dangerous assignment before he can "come in from the cold," so he poses as a drunk…
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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond …
Directed by: Don Chaffey
Ray Harryhausen, the grand pooh-bah of stop-motion animation, presents Jason and the Argonauts, which follows Jason's epic quest for the Golden Fleece. Harryhausen phantasms abound,…
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Never Take Candy from a Stranger / These Are the Damned (1960)
Cast: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer …
Directed by: Cyril Frankel, Joseph Losey
Best known for its Gothic horror flicks, British studio Hammer Film Productions presents a disturbing tale of a politically powerful pervert and a socially conscious sci-fi chiller about…
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Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Cast: Peter Cushing, Richard Greene, Niall MacGinnis …
Directed by: Terence Fisher
When the sheriff of Nottingham (Peter Cushing) schemes to assassinate an archbishop (Jack Gwillim) who opposes his greedy plan to seize the estate of a dead crusader, brave Robin Hood…
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The Nun's Story (1959)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans …
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
This moving religious drama stars Audrey Hepburn (who won a BAFTA Award) in a range-stretching performance as the young postulant Sister Luke. Assigned to a hospital in the Belgian Congo, the…
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Lust for Life (1956)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Director Vincente Minnelli paints a dramatic portrait of tormented artistic genius Vincent van Gogh in this fictionalized biography. Kirk Douglas delivers a fittingly combustible performance…
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Helen of Troy (1956)
Cast: Rossana Podesta, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke …
Directed by: Robert Wise
Trojan prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) heads to Sparta hoping to end the war between Troy and Greece. Instead, his ship capsizes and he's rescued ashore by Helen (Rossana Podesta), whom he…
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Alexander the Great (1956)
Cast: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom …
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Macedonian king Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), son of Philip (Fredric March) and Olympius (Danielle Darrieux), achieved what most people thought impossible: He united ancient…
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Martin Luther (1953)
Cast: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Alexander Gauge …
Directed by: Irving Pichel
The life of 16th-century religious reformer Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis) is faithfully laid out in this black-and-white classic, long considered the best of several films on the subject.…
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Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
In 15th century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) schemes to avenge his father's death when his uncle, Claudius, murders the prince's father, promptly weds the queen…
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Captain Boycott (1947)
Cast: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker …
Directed by: Frank Launder
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert…
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49th Parallel (1941)
Cast: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard …
Directed by: Michael Powell
The great Laurence Olivier leads an impressive cast in this wartime thriller about a Nazi U-boat crew stranded in Canada during World War II. Led by the fanatical Lt. Hirth (Eric Portman),…
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The Edge of the World (1937)
Cast: John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Eric Berry …
Directed by: Michael Powell
John Laurie and Finlay Currie star as two family patriarchs struggling over the future of an isolated island community, whose traditional way of life is slowly dying as its young men are…
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Turn of the Tide (1935)
Cast: John Garrick, J. Fisher White, Geraldine Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Norman Walker
In one little English hamlet, fishing has always been the purview of the Fosdycks, but now the upstart Lunn clan threatens to end the Fosdycks' 400-year reign. As Fosdyck patriarch Isaac…