Personal Info
Birth date
1941-01-03 (84 Years)
Day of death
2018-06-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also known as
-Derrick O'Connor
Biography
Derrick O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, UK. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Scottish National Theatre, with many leading stage performances in Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon and London's West End. His long and successful career included numerous starring roles in U.S., British and Australian film and television. He spent much of the latter half of his life living with his family in Santa Barbara where he died on 29th June, 2018 at the age of 77.
Filmography
Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Murder, She Wrote
7.52
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Monk
7.9
Overview:
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.Robin of Sherwood
7.627
Overview:
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.The Professionals
7.43
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.The Sweeney
7.739
Overview:
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
7.367
Overview:
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.Out
7
Overview:
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.Alias
6.758
Overview:
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.Lethal Weapon 2
7.023
Overview:
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.Daredevil
5.3
Overview:
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.Brazil
7.663
Overview:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.Deep Rising
6.2
Overview:
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.Soldier and Me
7
Overview:
Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.End of Days
6.1
Overview:
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.Time Bandits
6.592
Overview:
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.The Royal
7.6
Overview:
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.Stark
5.8
Overview:
The greenhouse effect has plunged the near-future world into recession and the Stark Corporation is making billions from the crisis; an eco protester ends caught up in a global conspiracy involving some Australian land, toxic waste, and a mysterious beauty called Rachel. Based on the novel Stark by Ben Elton.Fox
5.7
Overview:
Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. The thirteen-part series was based around the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in London and had gangland connections. The series was written by Trevor Preston, produced by Verity Lambert and directed by Jim Goddard.How to Make an American Quilt
6.4
Overview:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.Unrest
5.676
Overview:
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.Hope and Glory
6.9
Overview:
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.Hawk the Slayer
4.8
Overview:
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.Man from Reno
6.3
Overview:
A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.Jabberwocky
6.055
Overview:
After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?The Missionary
5.6
Overview:
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.Pope John Paul II
6.875
Overview:
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.The Final Programme
5.1
Overview:
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.Acting
2016Pushing Dead as Sidewalk Salesman
2014Man from Reno as Stephen Luft
2006Unrest as Dr. Blackwell
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Very Old Man
2003Daredevil as Father Everett
2003The Royal (1 Episode) as Patrick Maver
2002Monk (1 Episode) as Inspector St. Clare
2001Alias (4 Episodes) as Alexander Khasinau
1999End of Days as Thomas Aquinas
1998Deep Rising as Captain Atherton
1995How to Make an American Quilt as Dean
1995Soul Survivors as Dave
1995Ghosts (1 Episode) as Jack Rudkin
1993Stark (3 Episodes) as Zimmerman
1993A Question of Guilt as Geoffrey Bailey
1991Happy Feet as Clifford
1990Centrepoint (4 Episodes) as Dum Dum
1989Dealers as Robby Barrell
1989Lethal Weapon 2 as Pieter Vorstedt
1987Hope and Glory as Mac
1986Honest Decent & True as Mike Selby
1985Brazil as Dowser
1985Knockback: 2 as Alan
1985Knockback: 1 as Alan
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Mickey Dawks
1984Robin of Sherwood (1 Episode) as Raven
1984Pope John Paul II as Swiacki
1983Flying Into the Wind as Barry Wyatt
1982The Missionary as Gym Trainer
1982Easter 2016 as Lennie North
1982The Bell (4 Episodes) as Noel Spens
1981Psy-Warriors as Richards
1981Time Bandits as Robber Leader
1980Hawk the Slayer as Ralf
1980Bloody Kids as Detective Ritchie
1980Fox as Ray Fox
1980Fox (13 Episodes) as Ray Fox
1979Comedians as George McBrain
1978On a Paving Stone Mounted as Unknown
1978Out (3 Episodes) as John Pavey
1978Sweeney 2 as Llewellyn
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Jack Stone
1977Jabberwocky as Flying Hogfish Peasant
1975Keep an Eye on Albert as Albert
1975The Sweeney (1 Episode) as Eagle
1975A Pint of Plain as Unknown
1974Soldier and Me (9 Episodes) as Driver
1974Butley as Unknown
1974Flanagan as Flanagan
1973The Final Programme as Frank
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Albert
Writing
1975A Pint of Plain ... Writer
Directing
1975A Pint of Plain ... Director