A Man of No Importance is a 1994

1994 in film

1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

 comedy drama film

Drama film

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 directed by Suri Krishnamma

Suri Krishnamma

Suri Krishnamma is a British film director. He has directed several films, including A Man of No Importance, New Year's Day, Locked In and Wuthering Heights. He has won four film festival awards and been nominated for three BAFTA awards.Krishnamma has also directed several episodes of the...

 and starring Albert Finney

Albert Finney

Albert Finney is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television....

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Synopsis

Alfred Byrne is a closeted

The Closet

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 homosexual bus conductor in 1963 Dublin. His sister tries to find him a suitable woman, but his real passion is putting on amateur theater productions of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 plays. The film deals with his struggle, temptation, and friendships, and how they are affected by his homosexuality.

Cast

• Albert Finney
  Albert Finney
  Albert Finney is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television....
  
   as Alfred Byrne
• Brenda Fricker
  Brenda Fricker
  Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She had appeared in more than 30 films and television roles...
  
   as Lily Byrne
• Michael Gambon
  Michael Gambon
  Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlowe in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as...
  
   as Ivor J. Garney
• David Kelly
  David Kelly (actor)
  David Kelly is an Irish actor, who has been in regular film and television work since the 1950s.-Acting career:Playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare, he has appeared in Theatre, TV and film constantly since 1959...
  
   as Baldy
• Tara FitzGerald
  Tara Fitzgerald
  Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald is an English actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage....
  
   as Adele Rice
• Rufus Sewell
  Rufus Sewell
  Rufus Frederik Sewell is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth...
  
   as Robbie Fay
• Patrick Malahide
  Patrick Malahide
  Patrick Malahide is a British actor, who has played many major film and television roles.-Personal life:Malahide, real name Patrick Gerald Duggan, was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of Irish immigrants, a cook mother and a school secretary father...
  
   as Inspector Carson
• Mick Lally
  Mick Lally
  Michael 'Mick' Lally was an Irish stage, film and television actor. He departed from a teaching career for acting during the 1970s...
  
   as Father Ignatius Kenny
• Anna Manahan
  Anna Manahan
  Anna Maria Manahan was an Irish stage, film and television actress. She interpreted the works of, among others, Sean O'Casey, John B Keane, J. M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Martin McDonagh, Christy Brown, and Brian Friel....
  
   as Mrs. Grace
• Joe Pilkington as Ernie Lally
• Brendan Conroy as Rasher Flynn
• Joan O'Hara
  Joan O'Hara
  Joan O'Hara was an Irish stage, film and television actress. She was a member of the renowned Abbey Players and performed in many plays in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, including those by Seán O'Casey, Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats...
  
   as Mrs. Crowe
• Eileen Reid as Mrs. Rock
• Eileen Conroy as Mrs. Curtin
• Maureen Egan
  Maureen Egan
  Maureen Egan is a writer/director who has directed several music videos, including the MTV2 Award-winning "Screaming Infidelities" for Dashboard Confessional.Her parents were the late actors Richard Egan and Patricia Hardy.-References:...
  
   as Mrs. Dunne
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
  Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
  Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor and model.He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Mission Impossible III, Bend It Like Beckham, Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor,...
  
   as first young man (his first film role)
• Enda Oates
  Enda Oates
  Enda Oates , occasionally credited as Enda Oats, is an Irish stage, film, and television actor. He has received attention for his stagework, but is best known to Irish television audiences as the Reverend George Black in the long running series Glenroe for RTE, and as Barreller Casey in the sitcom...
  
   as The Garda
• Maureen Mc Arthur as The bowling lady
• Paudge Behan
  Paudge Behan
  Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting...
  
  as Kitty