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Shane Connaughton

Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn April 4, 1941 (84 years)
Shane Connaughton is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for My Left Foot. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning 1980 short film The Dollar Bottom and 1992 film The Playboys, as well as other screenplays and plays. He won the Hennessy Award in 1985.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Coronation Street

Known For

  • My Left Foot
  • Tara Road
  • The Playboys
  • River Queen
  • The Run of the Country
  • The Blackwater Lightship
  • The Miracle
  • Redemption of a Rogue
  • The Lilac Bus
  • Four Days in July
  • Ghostwood
  • The Dollar Bottom
  • Every Picture Tells a Story
  • Crown Court
  • Screen Two
  • The Crezz

Shane Connaughton Filmography

2005
Tara Road · as Screenplay
2005
2004
The Blackwater Lightship · as Screenplay
1995
The Run of the Country · as Screenplay
1992
1992
1989
My Left Foot · as Screenplay
1984
Screen Two (TV Series)
1984
1981
The Dollar Bottom · as Screenplay
1972
Crown Court (TV Series)

2020
Redemption of a Rogue · as Hardware Owner
2020
Jam · as Grandad
2008
Ghostwood · as Father Frank
2001
Uprising · as German Soldier With Violinists
2000
1992
The Playboys · as Customs Officer
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) · as W.b. Yeats
1991
The Miracle · as Rose's Father
1986
Screenplay (1986) (TV Series) · as Auctioneer
1984
Screen Two (TV Series) · as Senior Policeman
1984
Four Days in July · as Brendan
1976
Enemy · as Commuter
1972
Crown Court (TV Series) · as Gerald Thornton
1970
Play for Today (TV Series) · as Cast
1960
Coronation Street (TV Series) · as John Smith
1956
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Prison Officer

1995
The Run of the Country · as Associate Producer

1976
The Crezz (TV Series) · as By

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