Pat Laffan

Pat Laffan

Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.

  • Title: Pat Laffan
  • Popularity: 2.611
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1939-06-08
  • Place of Birth: County Meath, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Patrick Laffan, Pat Laffin
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Pat Laffan Movies

  • 1997
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    6.1 1997 HD

    Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on...

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  • 1969
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    I Can't... I Can't...

    I Can't... I Can't...

    1 1969 HD

    The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of...

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  • 2010
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    Leap Year

    Leap Year

    6.89 2010 HD

    When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that...

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  • 1964
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    Girl with Green Eyes

    Girl with Green Eyes

    6.6 1964 HD

    A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

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  • 2010
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    The Runway

    The Runway

    6.111 2010 HD

    The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the...

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  • 1995
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    Sharpe's Sword

    Sharpe's Sword

    7.2 1995 HD

    Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French...

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  • 1999
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    Durango

    Durango

    6.3 1999 HD

    In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.

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  • 1992
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    The Playboys

    The Playboys

    6 1992 HD

    A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to...

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  • 1999
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    Park

    Park

    1 1999 HD

    Catherine goes to a local park to meet up with a school friend. The friend is not there, and Catherine spends the morning looking for her, with the...

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  • 1989
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    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    7.531 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Events at Drimaghleen

    Events at Drimaghleen

    1 1991 HD

    The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary...

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  • 1991
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    The Treaty

    The Treaty

    8 1991 HD

    How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after...

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  • 2017
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    Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House

    Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House

    1 2017 HD

    This documentary tells the story of the history of Ballyfin, how it played an important role in the political, artistic and social life of nineteenth...

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  • 1991
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    Journey to Knock

    Journey to Knock

    1 1991 HD

    Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

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  • 2006
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    The Queen

    The Queen

    6.954 2006 HD

    The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle,...

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  • 2003
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    A Ferret Called Mickey

    A Ferret Called Mickey

    6 2003 HD

    Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would...

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  • 1994
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    War of the Buttons

    War of the Buttons

    7.1 1994 HD

    War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

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  • 1991
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    Hear My Song

    Hear My Song

    5.914 1991 HD

    Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the...

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  • 1990
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    After Midnight

    After Midnight

    5 1990 HD

    An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.

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  • 2001
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    How Harry Became a Tree

    How Harry Became a Tree

    5.5 2001 HD

    Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the...

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  • 2003
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    The Boys & Girl from County Clare

    The Boys & Girl from County Clare

    6 2003 HD

    In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

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  • 1975
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    Barry Lyndon

    Barry Lyndon

    8 1975 HD

    An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond...

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  • 2003
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    Intermission

    Intermission

    6.17 2003 HD

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and...

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  • 1998
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    The General

    The General

    6.655 1998 HD

    The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted...

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  • 2007
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    The Wednesdays

    The Wednesdays

    1 2007 HD

    Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and...

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  • 1998
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    The General

    The General

    6.655 1998 HD

    The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted...

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  • 2011
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    War Horse

    War Horse

    7.306 2011 HD

    On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey...

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  • 1993
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    The Snapper

    The Snapper

    6.4 1993 HD

    Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the...

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  • 1995
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    An Awfully Big Adventure

    An Awfully Big Adventure

    6.7 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Pigs

    Pigs

    3 1984 HD

    A group of unemployed and marginalised souls eke out a meagre living by drawing welfare and occupying a derelict squat in an apocalyptic inner city...

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  • 1972
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    A War of Children

    A War of Children

    7.2 1972 HD

    A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls...

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  • 2019
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    Laid to Rest

    Laid to Rest

    1 2019 HD

    A feuding father and son must put aside their differences and get morbidly creative in order to dispose of a burglar's dead body.

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  • 1996
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    Trojan Eddie

    Trojan Eddie

    5.3 1996 HD

    Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather...

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  • 1996
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    Space Truckers

    Space Truckers

    5.4 1996 HD

    John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions...

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  • 1997
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    The Serpent's Kiss

    The Serpent's Kiss

    5.4 1997 HD

    A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

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  • 2019
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    When Hitchcock Met O'Casey

    When Hitchcock Met O'Casey

    1 2019 HD

    When Hitchcock Met O'Casey is the untold story of the unlikely collaboartion between Alfred Hitchcock, one of the greats of 20th century cinema and...

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  • 2019
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    When Hitchcock met O'Casey

    When Hitchcock met O'Casey

    1 2019 HD

    It was a collaboration between one of Ireland’s most noted playwrights and cinema’s greatest directors, yet the 1930 release of Juno and...

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  • 2012
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    Ripper Street

    Ripper Street

    7.4 2012 HD

    A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division...

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  • 1995
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    Father Ted

    Father Ted

    8.118 1995 HD

    A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

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  • 2014
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    Quirke

    Quirke

    5.8 2014 HD

    Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates...

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