Pat Shortt
Birthday: Born in 1966-12-12 in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland
Deathday: Alive
Pat Shortt is an Irish actor and comedian, best known for his work with the McDonagh brothers, as well as the Irish sitcom Killinaskully, which he created and wrote. He is also known as half of D'Unbelievables, a comedy duo he co-founded in the late 1980s with friend Jon Kenny.
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Father Ted
Character: Tom
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast....
Killinaskully
Character:
details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland...
Frank of Ireland
Character: Padraig
Frank is a 33-year-old catastrophe; a misanthropic fantasist in arrested development who’s convinced that the world owes him. He's also our hero. He has a tenuous hold on reality, a single room in his mother’s home, an ex he can’t get over and a loyal best friend, Doofus. This is the hilarious story of a man’s hapless search for respect. We don’t want him to succeed, but it’s fun to watch him try....
SisterS
Character: Deryl
Two women, one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father....
Smalltown
Character: Tom
The series tells the story of best friends Conor and Fergus and begins with both young men ready to leave small town Ireland behind in hopes of better fortunes abroad. The story then jumps forward to years later as both men's lives are thrown into turmoil by family drama, resurfacing old wounds and a dramatically changed Ireland....
The Late Late Show
Character: Self
Chat show that looks at current affairs in Ireland...
Bodkin
Character: Darragh
A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets....
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Man About Dog
Character: Fergie
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic....
Garage
Character: Josie
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....
The Closer You Get
Character: Ollie Doyle
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Oll...
Life's a Breeze
Character: Colm
An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune....
D'Unbelievables D'Telly
Character: Various
Irish Comedy Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt...
This Is My Father
Character: Garda Ben
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland....
Song of the Sea
Character: Lug (voice)
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival....
The Banshees of Inisherin
Character: Jonjo Devine
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them....
Pat Shortt: Live and a Bit Dangerous
Character: Self
The DVD brings you some of Shortt's favorite characters from his sell-out live show....
The Heist Before Christmas
Character: Headmaster
After a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas encounters a man in the woods who, also dressed as Santa, claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. The pair strike up a friendship and go on an adventure....
Queen & Country
Character: Redmond
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town....
Four Letters of Love
Character: John Flannery
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart....
Calvary
Character: Brendan Lynch
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him....
Dead Man’s Money
Character: Old Henry
When Young Henry’s wealthy uncle starts courting “the Widow” Maureen Tweed, he starts to fear that he’ll be written out of Old Henry’s will. Conspiring with his wife, Pauline – and a chauffeur with a chequered past, known as Gerry the Wheels – Young Henry puts a plan in motion to make sure that the Widow Tweed never sees a penny of the inheritance he thinks is rightfully his. However, when Pauline’s guilt threatens to expose them, fear and distrust starts to seed within the trio. Not knowing who...
The Life of Lester Wink
Character: Lester Wink
Lester Wink, a door-to-door pet insurance salesman with a phobia of talking with strangers, must make a sale by 5pm, or get fired. He meets Sammy, a widow who is afraid to leave her house, and a friendship is born....
SoulBoy
Character: Brendan
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test....
The Flag
Character: Harry Hambridge
Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along ...
Dark Lies the Island
Character: Daddy Mannion
A long standing family feud rocks a small town that comes to a head when the Patriarch of the ruling family decides to upend the status quo. Married to a much younger woman who calls him Daddy, she loves his power but is still in love with her first love, Doggy who is Daddy’s estranged son! Doggy is a criminal running various shady businesses with his dimwit brother, Martin when a mysterious newcomer Richie arrives in town to shake things up. Now watch the fireworks start in this Fargo-esque del...
Twice Shy
Character: Pat Collins
Andy and Maggie, a young Irish couple, travel to England as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, where Maggie will face the biggest decision of her life....
The Guard
Character: Colum Hennessey
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang....
Breakfast Wine
Character: Mr Kelliher
In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you’ve only got two?...
The Belly of the Whale
Character: Ronald Tanner
Two down-and-outs bonded together in misfortune devise a plan to rob a small town amusement arcade....
Animals
Character: Bill
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal....
Pixie
Character: Father Daly
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny....
Maya
Character: Ken
Ken lives in a simulated, idyllic reality created by a machine called Maya. As his funds start running low, this happy world is about to crumble and he’ll be forced to return to a life he sought desperately to escape....
D'Collection
Character:
Compilation DVD featuring D'Video, D'Telly and D'Mother...
Me and Dad
Character: Barman
A boy struggles to get through to his oblivious, drunk dad at a local pub. All attempts are ignored. The barman is the boy’s only soft ear. In one final gesture, Charlie desperately attempts to push Dad to break....