
Birthday:
12-12-1966
(58 years)
Birthplace:
Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland
Biography
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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Man About Dog
Act like Fergie
event2004 star_border 6.3
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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.
Pat Shortt - You Won't Get Away With That Here
event2006 star_border 7.5
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Pat Shortt in comedy stand up - Its the final night in the hall at rathmuff before its due to be demolished and the locals decide to show a film. The local characters turn out in force to bid a farewell to the hall, like patsy the hall caretaker, who patrols the aisle to make sure there is notrhing dirty going on, Sheamie the builder who comes in to demolish the place and dympna the air hostess who lives on in sheamies dreams as one of his more memorable flights. This is one on the mostdaring productions ever staged in the community hall, but regardless of who you meet they will tell you the same thing,... you wont get away with that here!
Garage
Act like Josie
event2007 star_border 6.7
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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
Act like Ollie Doyle
event2000 star_border 5.7
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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. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?
Dermot Morgan - Fearless Funnyman
Act like Self
event2013
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A selection of Dermot Morgan's family, friends, colleagues and admirers, including Pat Shortt, Oliver Callan and Pauline Mc Lynn, look back on the life of the comedian, writer, satirist and actor whose savage wit belied a caring nature and reflect on his place in the annals of comedy greats.
Life's a Breeze
Act like Colm
event2013 star_border 6.1
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An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.
D'Unbelievables D'Video
Act like Various
event1996 star_border 9.6
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Irish Sketch Movie Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt
D'Unbelievables D'Telly
Act like Various
event1998 star_border 9.4
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Irish Comedy Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt
D'Unbelievables D'Mother
Act like Various
event2001 star_border 8.5
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Irish Comedy starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt
This Is My Father
Act like Garda Ben
event1999 star_border 5.4
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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
Act like Lug (voice)
event2014 star_border 8
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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
Act like Jonjo Devine
event2022 star_border 7.5
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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
Act like Self
event2003
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The DVD brings you some of Shortt's favorite characters from his sell-out live show.
The Heist Before Christmas
Act like Headmaster
event2023 star_border 5
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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
Act like Redmond
event2014 star_border 6
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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
Act like John Flannery
new_releases Release: April 30, 2025
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
Act like Brendan Lynch
event2014 star_border 7.1
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After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Dead Man’s Money
Act like Old Henry
event2024 star_border 8
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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 can trust whom, their dirty deed leads to a series of events that there is no coming back from, for any of them
D'Unbelievables One Hell of a Do
Act like Gerry
event2011 star_border 9.5
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In 2011 Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt decided to reunite for a national tour of the award winning hit show 'One Hell of a Do'. This hilarious comedy celebrates the unique talent of Ireland's most famous wedding/pub band - Tom & Gerry (D'Unbelievables) - who, on receiving an award entitled the 'Golden Microphone of the Year Award for the best wedding/pub band in Ireland' recall the hilarious happenings during the day of the Donoghue Wedding. Filmed in front of a live audience at The Royal Theatre, Castlebar in 2011
The Life of Lester Wink
Act like Lester Wink
event2023
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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
Act like Brendan
event2010 star_border 6
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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
Act like Harry Hambridge
event2016 star_border 9
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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 the way.
Dark Lies the Island
Act like Daddy Mannion
event2019 star_border 6.7
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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 delight!
Twice Shy
Act like Pat Collins
event2016 star_border 2
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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
Act like Colum Hennessey
event2011 star_border 7
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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
Act like Mr Kelliher
event2013 star_border 7.7
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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
Act like Ronald Tanner
event2018 star_border 5.8
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Two down-and-outs bonded together in misfortune devise a plan to rob a small town amusement arcade.
Animals
Act like Bill
event2019 star_border 5.6
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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
Act like Father Daly
event2020 star_border 5.9
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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
Act like Ken
event2019
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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
event2005
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Compilation DVD featuring D'Video, D'Telly and D'Mother
Me and Dad
Act like Barman
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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.
Strength and Honour
Act like Wheeler McCoy
event2007 star_border 5.1
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A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
Father Ted
Act like Tom (4 ep.)
event1995 star_border 8.1
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A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Killinaskully
(36 ep.)
event2003 star_border 8.5
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details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland
Frank of Ireland
Act like Padraig (6 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.4
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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
Act like Deryl (6 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.9
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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
Act like Tom (3 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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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.
Joe Dolan - Sweet Little Rock N Roller
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2012
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Joe remains one of Ireland's most iconic entertainers. The only Irish singer to register chart hits over five successive decades, Joe evolved from being a rural Rocker in the early sixties to become Ireland's first international pop star.
The Late Late Show
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5
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Chat show that looks at current affairs in Ireland
Bodkin
Act like Darragh (3 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.3
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A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.
Songs of Ireland
(1 ep.)
event2024
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Entertainer and musician Pat Shortt and Stockton's Wing frontman Mike Hanrahan, take a musical road trip around Ireland to discover the history behind some of our greatest songs.
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