Personal Info
Birth date
1944-01-01 (81 Years)
Day of death
2021-05-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Also known as
-Tom Hickey
Biography
Tom Hickey (1944 – May 1, 2021) was an Irish actor who appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He was best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, The Riordans.
Filmography
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
7.517
Overview:
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.Possession
6.005
Overview:
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.Breakfast on Pluto
7.213
Overview:
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.High Spirits
5.795
Overview:
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.Inside I'm Dancing
7.437
Overview:
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.The Butcher Boy
6.8
Overview:
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.Gothic
5.713
Overview:
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.Raining Stones
7
Overview:
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.Nuns on the Run
5.8
Overview:
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. Brian and Charlie decides to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.Cal
5.8
Overview:
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.An Awfully Big Adventure
6.7
Overview:
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.Circle of Friends
6.3
Overview:
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?What Richard Did
5.76
Overview:
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.Unnatural Pursuits
6
Overview:
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.The Treaty
6
Overview:
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.Moondance
6.071
Overview:
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in jeopardy.The Last September
5.2
Overview:
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.Flight of the Doves
5.8
Overview:
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.The Miracle
5.833
Overview:
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.Fools of Fortune
5.3
Overview:
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.Garage
6.695
Overview:
Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.Stella Days
6.467
Overview:
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.Gold In The Streets
1
Overview:
An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and uncertainty about their place haunt him and his cousin.Coney Island Baby
NYR
Overview:
After spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.Alarm
4.5
Overview:
A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friendsHorowitz in Dublin
NYR
Overview:
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himself called upon by the police to help solve a recent murder case. A character driven comedy-suspense feature entertainment, starring Harvey Lembeck, Sinead Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova and Cyril Cusack.Family
8.5
Overview:
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.Unnatural Pursuits
NYR
Overview:
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.All Souls' Day
NYR
Overview:
The date was November 2nd, All Soul's Day, when Nicole's naked body was found on the beach. Seven years on, Nicole's mother Madie, obsessed with finding out what really happened on that fateful day, visits her daughter's boyfriend Jim in prison. As memories unfold and secrets are unveiled in the search for truth and redemption, Madie and Jim stumble upon something more sinister. Shot in different formats, in colour and black and white, fragments of a tragic story emerge from this rich, visual film.Acting
2012What Richard Did as Priest
2012Stella Days as Bishop Hegarty
2008Alarm as Frank
2007Garage as Mr Skerrit
2005Breakfast on Pluto as Bishop
2004Inside I'm Dancing as Con O'Shea
2004The Phantom Cnut as Priest
2002Possession as Blackadder
2002Coney Island Baby as Mr. Hayes
2001Black Day at Black Rock as Unknown
2000The Last September as O'Brien
1998The Butcher Boy as Gardener
1997All Souls' Day as Unknown
1997Gold In The Streets as Mr Costello
1995The Cake as Second Orangeman
1995An Awfully Big Adventure as Freddie Reynalde
1995Circle of Friends as Professor Maclure
1995Moondance as Unknown
1994Family as Dean
1993Raining Stones as Father Barry
1992Unnatural Pursuits (2 Episodes) as Blossom
1992Unnatural Pursuits as Blossom
1991The Treaty as Eamonn Duggan
1991The Miracle as Tommy
1990Fools of Fortune as Father Kilgarrif
1990Nuns on the Run as Father Seamus
1989My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown as Priest
1988High Spirits as Sampson
1987Gothic as Tour Guide
1984Cal as Preacher
1984To The Western World as Unknown
1981Les Roses de Dublin (6 Episodes) as Peter O'Reilly
1979Katie: The Year of a Child as Pub manager
1973Horowitz in Dublin as (uncredited)
1971Flight of the Doves as Pat Flynn