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Shane Connaughton

Highest Rated: 100% Redemption of a Rogue (2020)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Run of the Country (1995)

Birthday: Apr 4, 1941

Birthplace: Redhills, Co. Cavan, Ireland

A successful Irish stage and TV writer, Connaughton hit his country's best-seller lists with the novel, "A Border Station." What Damon Runyon did for New York, Connaughton might well be said to have done for Redhills, Ireland, as many of his stories are set there, where Connaughton spent his childhood. He entered films with the script to the Oscar-winning short "The Dollar Bottom" (1980) and went on to collaborate with Mike Leigh on the TV-movie "Four Days in July" (1984), about couples in Northern Ireland affected by the Troubles. (The screenwriter also made his acting debut in the telefilm.) Connaughton, though, first won international attention as the co-scenarist on "My Left Foot" (1989), based on the life of writer-painter Christy Brown. While he and director Jim Sheridan only shared an Academy Award nomination for their script, actors Daniel Day-Lewis (as the adult Christy) and Brenda Fricker (as his mother) took home Oscars.

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Highest rated movies

100% 70% Redemption of a Rogue
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92% 53% The Playboys
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50% 78% The Run of the Country
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54% The Blackwater Lightship
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No Party for Billy Burns
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No Party for Billy Burns
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42% Tara Road
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Filmography

Movies

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100% 70% Redemption of a Rogue Unknown (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Party for Billy Burns Unknown (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Party for Billy Burns Old Jim Nannery (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 42% Tara Road Writer - 2005
No Score Yet 54% The Blackwater Lightship Screenwriter - 2004
50% 78% The Run of the Country Screenwriter $252.9K 1995
92% 53% The Playboys Screenwriter $4.9M 1992

TV

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78% 85% The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Unknown (Guest Star) 1993