Denis O'Dea


Denis O'Dea

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Niagara (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Well Run Him Down To The Morgue A body fished from the falls, diabolical Rose (Marilyn Monroe) with detective Starkey (Denis O'Dea), expecting to I-D her husband, then hospitalized, friend Polly (Jean Peters) visiting, in Henry Hathaway's Niagara, 1953.
Rising Of The Moon, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Not Be Needin' The Cork Inspector Dillon (Cyril Cusack) with Dan (Noel Purcell) whom he doesn't want to arrest, moonshiner Mickey (Jack MacGowran) glad he's not the target, in the first segment of John Ford's Irish pastoral The Rising Of The Moon, 1957.
Treasure Island (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Downright Un-English! Jim (Bobby Driscoll), frightened but charmed by the newly hired cook Silver (Robert Netwon), boards the ship at Bristol where we meet Captain Smollett (Basil Sydney), who’s not sure Squire Trelawney (Walter Fitzgerald) and Livesy (Denis O’Dea) have made good choices regarding the crew, in Walt Disney’s Treasure Island, 1950.
Treasure Island (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Flint's Map Jim (Bobby Driscoll) returns to the inn with Squire Trelawney (Walter Fitzgerald) and Dr. Livesy (Denis O’Dea) to find Captain Billy Bones murdered, then decides to show them the treasure map entrusted to him, sparking the big idea, in Walt Disney’s hit adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, 1950, starring Robert Newton.
Treasure Island (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Many's The Night I've Dreamed Of Cheese Having just escaped Long John Silver, Jack (Bobby Driscoll) flees only to discover the marooned Ben Gunn (Geoffrey Wilkinson), left to guard Flint's gold in Treasure Island, 1950.
Treasure Island (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Head Full Of Pirates Fitting out the ship in Bristol, Jim (Bobby Driscoll), warned by his murdered friend Billy Bones of a one-legged man, meets Long John Silver (Robert Newton), who’s just been hired by the clueless Trelawney (Walter Fitzgerald) and Livesy (Denis O’Dea) as cook for their treasure hunting voyage, in Walt Disney’s Treasure Island, 1950.
Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) -- (Movie Clip) The King Of Them All Regaling his pals (J.G. Devlin, Farrell Pelly, and Denis O’Dea as eavesdropping Father Murphy) at the pub, Darby (Albert Sharpe) tells of how his first encounter with the diabolical leprechaun king Brian Connors (Jimmy O’Dea) went awry, in the Disney feature Darby O’Gill And The Little People, 1959.
Under Capricorn (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Always The Kangaroo One of many single-take scenes, Adare (Michael Wilding) calls on Australian landowner Flusky (Joseph Cotten) whose wife (Ingrid Bergman) needs restraining, aide Winter (Jack Watling) and other guests (Victor Lukas, Ronald Adam), making excuses, in Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, 1949.

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