Acting

Pat Moriarity

Born January 27, 1896 · Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland

Died October 21, 1962 · aged 66

No biography available.

Known For

The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

★ 7.61945

MovieDrama

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

★ 6.51941

MovieDramaHorror

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

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The Lost Weekend · 1945

The Lost Weekend

★ 7.61945

MovieDrama

Irishman (uncredited)

A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.

Irish Construction Worker (uncredited)

Admirer (uncredited)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

★ 6.51941

MovieDramaHorror

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Drunk (uncredited)

Rancher Matthews

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Sgt. McGinnis

Mike (uncredited)

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

Spectator - Sullivan Fight (uncredited)

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Tod Monaghan

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

The Younger O'Brien

Son of Dracula · 1943

Son of Dracula

★ 5.81943

MovieHorror

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Sheriff Dawes

The Pride of the Yankees · 1942

The Pride of the Yankees

★ 7.31942

MovieDramaFamily

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Policeman in 1915 (uncredited)

Manhattan Melodrama · 1934

Manhattan Melodrama

★ 7.01934

MovieCrimeDrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Trotsky Heckler (uncredited)

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.

Terry

The Iron Horse · 1925

The Iron Horse

★ 6.81925

MovieWesternDrama

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

Rail Worker (uncredited)

A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

Sgt. Mack

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.

Court Bailiff

The Devil and Miss Jones · 1941

The Devil and Miss Jones

★ 7.61941

MovieComedyRomance

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.

2nd Policeman

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Minister (uncredited)

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Steve Brodie (uncredited)

Four Men and a Prayer · 1938

Four Men and a Prayer

★ 6.51938

MovieAdventureMystery

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Soldier in Bar (uncredited)

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Cop (uncredited)

Northern Pursuit · 1943

Northern Pursuit

★ 6.11943

MovieAdventureWar

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.

Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)

Up Pops the Devil · 1931

Up Pops the Devil

★ 5.01931

MovieComedy

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.

Kelly, Bootlegger