Michael Collins (Original title)The Michael Collins Story (Working title)
Dates: 1996 (Copyright), 08 November 1996 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirected by: Neil Jordan
Synopsis: Tells the story of Michael Collins who, after the failed Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916, formed the Irish Volunteers. Their aim was to fight for Irish independence by using guerilla tactics against the British.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subjects: De Valera, Eamon (1882-1975), Collins, Michael (1890-1922), Easter Rising, Irish Civil War (1922-1923), Old Irish Republican Army, Dublin (city), General Post Office (Dublin), Politics
Releases
Date: 11 October 1996Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - Dolby Digital / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 08 November 1996Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - Dolby Digital / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Length: 11907 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1996 (Copyright), 08 November 1996 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirected by: Neil Jordan
Synopsis: Tells the story of Michael Collins who, after the failed Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916, formed the Irish Volunteers. Their aim was to fight for Irish independence by using guerilla tactics against the British.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subjects: De Valera, Eamon (1882-1975), Collins, Michael (1890-1922), Easter Rising, Irish Civil War (1922-1923), Old Irish Republican Army, Dublin (city), General Post Office (Dublin), Politics
Releases
Date: 11 October 1996Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - Dolby Digital / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 08 November 1996Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - Dolby Digital / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Length: 11907 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: The Geffen Film Company, a Stephen Woolley production: Stephen Woolley, a Geffen Pictures presentation: Geffen Pictures, Producer: Stephen Woolley, Co-producer: Redmond Morris, Geffen Pictures Executive: Bonni Lee, Production Manager: Gerry Toomey, Production Manager: Nan Bernstein Freed, Production Supervisor: Lynn Goldman, Production Co-ordinator: Cate Arbeid, Production Co-ordinator: Lonnie Kandel, Financial Controller: Gary Jones, Production Accountant: Paul Myler, Location Supervisor: Des Martin, Location Manager: Ruán Magan, 1st Assistant Director: Patrick Clayton, 1st Assistant Director: Noga Isackson, 2nd Assistant Director: David Carrigan, 2nd Assistant Director: Christo Morse, 2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Paul Barnes, 3rd Assistant Director: Catherine Dunne, Script Supervisor: Pat Rambaut, Casting: Susie Figgis, Casting Assistant: Romany Turner, Crowd Casting: Jill Dempsey, Written by: Neil Jordan, Director of Photography: Chris Menges, Camera Operator: Mike Roberts, 2nd Camera/Steadicam Operator: Peter Robertson, Focus Puller: Alan Butler, 2nd Camera Focus Puller: David Fitzgerald, Clapper Loader: Shane Deasy, 2nd Camera Clapper Loader: Simon Walshe, Lighting Gaffer: Louis Conroy, Camera Grip: John Murphy, Video Assist Operator: Bill Dowling, Stills Photographer: Tom Collins, Special Effects Supervisor: Yves de Bono, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Gerry Johnston, Senior Special Effects Technician: Nick Middleton, Film Editor: J. Patrick Duffner, Tony Lawson, Production Designer: Anthony Pratt, Supervising Art Director: Malcolm Middleton, Art Director: Arden Gantly, Art Director: Jonathan Mckinstry, Art Director: Cliff Robinson, Art Director: Justin Scoppa, Art Department Co-ordinator: Mairead Sandford, Emma Scott, Set Decorator: Josie MacAvin, Set Decorator: Ron Von Blomberg, Storyboard Artist: Martin Asbury, Supervising Property Master: David Balfour, Construction Co-ordinator: Terry Apsey, Construction Manager: Mick Deegan, Costume Designer: Sandy Powell, Assistant Costume Designer: Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, Ann Taylor, Costume Supervisor: Clare Spragge, Supervising Make-up Artist: Lynda Armstrong, Mr [Liam] Neeson's Make-up & Hair: Morag Ross, Make-up Artist: Belinda Hodson, Supervising Hairdresser: Dee Corcoran, Titles and Captions by: Frameline, Opticals by: FrameStore, Digital Domain, Film Stock by: Kodak, Colour by: Technicolor, Music: Elliot Goldenthal, Solo Voice: Sinéad O'Connor, Low Whistle and Uilleann Pipes Played by: Davy Spillane, Conductor: Jonathan Sheffer, Orchestrator: Robert Elhai, Elliot Goldenthal, Additional Orchestrations by: Sonny Kompanek, Additional Orchestrations by: Ned Ginsberg, Additional Orchestrations by: Richard Lee, Deniz Hughes, Music Producer: Matthias Gohl, Music Editor: Michael Connell, [Music] Recording/Mixing Engineer: Joel Iwataki, Steve Mclaughlin, Sound Recordist: Kieran Horgan, Boom Operator: Noel Quinn, Re-recording Mixer: Tom Fleischman, Preview Re-recording Mixer: Robin O'Donoghue, Supervising Sound Editor: Eddy Joseph, Dialogue Editor: Nigel Mills, ADR Mixer: Pat Hayes, ADR Mixer: David Boulton, ADR Editor: Hal Levinsohn, Foley Artist: Pauline Griffiths, Foley Artist: Jenny Lee-Wright, Lucy Fawcett, Foley Mixer: Jonathan Bateman, Foley Editor: Peter Holt, Jac Rubenstein, Stunt Co-ordinator: Greg Powell, Stunts: Gary Powell, Stunts: Kim Billings, Stunts: Keith Campbell, Stunts: Patrick Condron, Stunts: Steve Dent, Stunts: Jamie Edgell, Stunts: Dean Forster, Stunts: Stephen Street-Griffin, Stunts: Paul Heasman, Stunts: Paul Herbert, Stunts: Dominic Hewitt, Stunts: Paul Jennings, Stunts: Tom Lucy, Stunts: Lee Sheward, Stunts: Julian Spencer, Stunts: Alan xWalsh, Stunts: Nick Wilkinson, Historical Consultant: Barry Devault, Armourer: John McKenna, Unit Publicity: Mary Crotty, Gerry Lundberg
Cast
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Liam Neeson (Michael Collins), Aidan Quinn (Harry Boland), Stephen Rea (Ned Broy), Alan Rickman (Éamon de Valera), Julia Roberts (Kitty Kiernan), Ian Hart (Joe O'Reilly), Brendan Gleeson (Liam Tobin), Stuart Graham (Tom Cullen), Séan McGinley (Smith), Gerard McSorley (Cathal Brugha), Jonathan Rhys Myers (Collins' assassin), Charles Dance (Soames), Richard Ingram (British officer), John Kenny (Patrick Pearse), Roman McCairbe (Thomas McDonagh), Ger O'Leary (Thomas Clarke), Michael Dwyer (James Connolly), Martin Murphy (Captain Lee-Wilson), Gary Whelan (Hoey), Frank O'Sullivan (Kavanagh), Frank Laverty (Sean McKeoin), Owen O'Neill (Rory O'Connor), Liam De Staic (Austin Stack), Owen Roe (Arthur Griffith), Paul Bennett (Cosgrave), Claude Clancy (Vaughan's hotel clerk), Paul Hickey (Dublin Castle soldier), Tom Murphy (Vinny Byrne), David Gorry (Charlie Dalton), Gary Lydon (1st squad youth), David Wilmot (2nd squad youth), Joe Hanley (1st squad man), Colm Coogan (2nd squad man), Aiden Grennell (chaplain at Lincoln Jail), Dave Seymour (Lincoln taxi driver), Ian McElhinney (Belfast detective), Tony Clarkin (soldier on station), Luke Hayden (McCrae), Gary Powell, Max Hafler (Black and Tan on lorry), Laura Brennan (Rosie), Aidan Kelly (Gresham Hotel bellboy), Jim Isherwood (man following Broy), Michael James Ford (Black and Tan), Mal Whyte (officer in bath), Martin Phillips (officer in bed), Aisling O'Sullivan (girl in bed), Malcolm Douglas (officer in park), Brian 'Joker' Mulvey (Croke Park hurler), Frank Patterson (tenor in restaurant), Peter O'Brien (pianist in restaurant), Cafe Orchestra (orchestra in restaurant), Mike McCabe (journalist), Vinnie McCabe (speaker in the Dáil), Alan Stanford (Vice-Consul McCready), Gary Paul Mullen (young gunman), Barry Barnes (Free State soldier), Denis Conway (1st republican), Don Wycherley (2nd republican), Páraic Breathnach (Santry the blacksmith), Jean Kennedy Smith ([cameo])