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  • Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
  • Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe review by Cato from Shropshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Ripping Yarn 1 November 2007
    ... genre in that there was not much opportunity for social/surrealistic comment. Dan O'Herlihy gives his usual stirring performance, although his beard wig grew larger and mo...   Read customer review

Dan O'Herlihy - filmography


  • The Dead (1987)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Donal McCann,  Dan O'Herlihy
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    John Huston's last movie is a take on James Joyce's celebrated tale.It is Christmas time in Dublin at the turn of the century, and the snow covered streets appear peaceful and serene. But not too far away, a family is celebrating Twelfth Night. Music, dancing, conversation and wit abound not to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 287 members
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  • Robocop - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Nancy Allen,  Ronny Cox
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,831 members
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  • Robocop Trilogy (3 discs) on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Nancy Allen,  Ronny Cox
    Director: Paul Verhoeven,  Irvin Kershner,  Fred Dekker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This collection features ROBOCOP and its two sequels. In Paul Verhoeven's original urban sci-fi Western, Peter Weller stars as Murphy, a good Detroit cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine--RoboCop. His former partner (Nancy Allen) tries ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 9,861 members
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  • Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Tom Atkins,  Stacey Nelkin,  Dan O'Herlihy
    Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In the third HALLOWEEN installment (which has nothing to do with the first two films), a mad warlock hatches an evil plot to enact bloody mass murder. He creates creepy masks which force the wearer to commit violent acts of assassination on the night of Halloween.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 2,030 members
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  • MacArthur on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Dan O'Herlihy,  Ed Flanders
    Director: Joseph Sargent
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A biographical sketch of one of America's most famous generals. While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur (Gregory Peck) reflects on the events of his life: his achievements as the head of the American forces in the Pacific during World ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 157 members
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  • Good Against Evil on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Dack Rambo,  Elyssa Davalos,  Richard Lynch
    Director: Paul Wendkos
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The life of an ordinary young man is turned into stark horror when his sexy teen wife is beset by the devil. Against the odds he battles to bring her back from the dark realm of sexual depravity but with every passing moment he realises that the forces of evil are too much for her to resist... And ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 37 members
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  • Death Race 2000 on DVD (1975)
    Starring: David Carradine,  Sylvester Stallone,  Simone Griffeth
    Director: Paul Bartel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    More delightfully sick humor from Bartel (EATING RAOUL). In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians--with bonus points for the elderly! Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,840 members
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  • 100 Rifles on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Jim Brown,  Raquel Welch,  Burt Reynolds
    Director: Tom Gries
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lyedecker (Jim Brown) is the Arizona lawman who travels to Mexico in search of Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds). Joe has made an illegal withdrawal of $6,000 from the band in Phoenix to help finance his tribes's uprising against the Mexican government. Sarita (Raquel Welch) is the local woman who is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 32 members
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  • Fail-Safe on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Dan O'Herlihy,  Walter Matthau,  Frank Overton
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow. Air Force commander Frank ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 450 members
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  • The Young Land on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Patrick Wayne,  Yvonne Craig,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Ted Tetzlaff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a Mexican peasant is mercilessly gunned down in the street, it falls upon young lawman Pat Wayne to see that justice is done. With the town full of gun toting drunkards and lawless drifters wanted for one crime or another, tensions run high as the local Mexicans seek revenge for the slaying of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 11 members
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  • That Woman Opposite on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Phyllis Kirk,  Dan O'Herlihy,  William Franklyn
    Director: Compton Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir Maurice Lawes (Wilfred Hyde White) sees a gendarme beaten to death and the killer, who also sees Lawes, escape in a car. The next evening, the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 21 members
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  • Orson Welles' Macbeth on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Orson Welles,  Jeanette Nolan,  Dan O'Herlihy
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A dark, moody screen version of the classic tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide--in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision. As with his other masterpieces, Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 637 members
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  • Mission Impossible - Series 3 (7 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Peter Graves,  Barbara Bain,  Martin Landau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    International espionage, covert operations, and messages delivered on exploding tape recorders: all in a day's work for the secret agents of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF). Whether they're fighting dictators, evil organisations, or crime lords, this crack team of spies and specialists are ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 95 members
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Dan O'Herlihy facts

5 most recent films

The Dead - 3.5 stars
Robocop - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Robocop Trilogy - 3.5 stars
Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch - 2.5 stars
MacArthur - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Fail-Safe - 4.0 stars
Mission Impossible - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Robocop - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Robocop Trilogy - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Waterloo - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Good Against Evil - 1.5 stars
That Woman Opposite - 2.5 stars
The Young Land - 2.5 stars
100 Rifles - 3.0 stars
Halloween 3 - Season of the Witch - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Greg Morris - 16 times - show films
Sid Haig - 16 times - show films
Peter Graves - 16 times - show films
Barbara Bain - 16 times - show films
Martin Landau - 16 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lee H. Katzin - 8 times - show films
Paul Stanley - 8 times - show films
none - 8 times - show films
Leonard Horn - 8 times - show films
Alf - 8 times - show films