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Waking Ned (Original title)Vieilles Canailles (Alternative title)Waking Ned Devine (Alternative title)
Dates: 1998 (Copyright), 19 March 1999 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, France, USA

Director: Kirk Jones

Synopsis: Comedy. Shenanigans abound in a sleepy Irish village when the inhabitants realise that someone in their midst has won the lottery - the only snag being that the winner seems to have died from shock at the news.

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1998not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: Super-35 - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8185 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (99)
Production Company: Tomboy Films (UK) Ltd., Production Company: The Gruber Brothers, Production Company: Mainstream, Production Company: Bonaparte Films, Production Company: The Isle of Man Film Commission, Production Company: Overseas Filmgroup, With the participation of: Canal+, Executive Producer: Alexandre Heylen, Co-executive Producer: Stephen Margolis, Producer: Glynis Murray, Producer: Richard Holmes, Co-producer: Neil Peplow, Associate Producer: Miara Martell, Co-associate Producer: Keith Hayley, Mark Ezra, Production Co-ordinator: Bernice Daly, Location Manager: Phil Gates, Assistant Director (1st): Mark Goddard, Assistant Director (2nd): Neil Tuohy, Assistant Director (3rd): Claire Peberdy, Script Supervisor: Penny Eyles, Casting: Ros Hubbard, Casting: John Hubbard, Screenplay: Kirk Jones, Director of Photography: Henry Braham, Camera Operator: Stefan Stankowski, Focus Puller: Bobby Stilwell, 2nd Focus Puller: Luke Redgrave, Grip: Peter 'Snowy' Butler, Special Visual Effects: MillFilm, MillF (Visual Effects Supervisor): Karl Mooney, MillF (Visual Effects Associat Producer): Jeanett Volurno, MillF (Visual Effects Co-ordinator): Martin Hobbs, MillF (Editorial Supervisor): Jody Rogers, MillF (Visual Effects Editor): John Seymour, MillF (CG Supervisor): Alison Leaf, MillF (Lead Compositor): Ian Plumb, Andrea Sholer, MillF (3D Animator): Andy Kind, MillF (3D Animator): Ivor Middleton, MillF (3D Animator): Mike Perry, MillF (3D Animator): Tim Zaccheo, Jakob Schmidt, MillF (Film Recording Technician): Tim Caplan, Special Effects (Supervisor): Bob Hollow, Special Effects (Operator): Adam Hollow, Simon Davies, Editor: Alan Strachan, Production Designer: John Ebden, Art Director: Mark Tanner, Costume Designer: Rosie Hackett, Wardrobe Supervisor: Margie Fortune, Chief Make-up Artist: Anne Oldham, Make-up Artist: Nora Robertson, Titles Design: Ninety Seven Plus, Opticals: Peerless Camera Company, Music: Shaun Davey, Musician (Guest Singer): Liam O'Maonlai, Rita Connolly, Musician (Uilleann Pipes/Whistles): John Mcsherry, Musician (Fiddle): Nollaig Casey, Musician (Guitar): Artie Mcglynn, Musician (Bodhrán/Whistle): Liam O'Maonlai, Musician (Chorus Vocals) The: The Voice Squad, Musician (Chorus Vocals): Fran McPhail, Musician (Chorus Vocals): Phil Callery, Musician (Chorus Vocals): Gerard Cullen, Colm O'Maonlai, Orchestra Conductor: Fiachra Trench, Orchestrator: Shaun Davey, Music Editor: Bob Hathaway, Music Recording Engineer: Austin Ince, Bill Somerville-Large, Music Adviser: Nicholas Carolan, Music Adviser The: The Traditional Music Archive Dublin, Music Adviser: Pipe Major Iain Macdonald, Production Sound Mixer: David Crozier, Sound Recording: John Casali, Re-recording Mixer: Rupert Scrivener, Temp Mix: Ian Tapp, Sound Editor: John Downer, Additional Sound Editing: Sarah Morton, Dialogue Editor: Michael Feinberg, ADR (Footsteps Recordist): Alan Snelling, Foley (Artist): Jack Stew, Felicity Cottrell, Foley (Footsteps Recordist): Alan Snelling, Stunt Co-ordinator: Andy Bradford, Stunt Performer: Stuart Clark, Richard Hammatt, Stand-in: Carl Barnett, Stand-in: Donald Gellion, Stand-in: Alf Speakman, Stand-in: Margaret Bendall, Stand-in: Beastie Dovey, Stand-in: Pat Clewis, Helicopter Pilot: Keith Thompson, Helicopter Pilot: Andrew Lauretani
Cast (65)
Paul Vaughan (), Ian Bannen (Jackie O'Shea), David Kelly (Michael O'Sullivan), Fionnula Flanagan (Annie O'Shea), Susan Lynch (Maggie), James Nesbitt (Pig Finn), Adrian Robinson (lotto observer), Maura O'Malley (Mrs Kennedy), Robert Hickey (Maurice O'Toole), Paddy Ward (Brendy O'Toole), James Ryland (Dennis Fitzgerald), Fintan Mckeown (Pat Mulligan), Eileen Dromey (Lizzy Quinn), Kitty Fitzgerald (Kitty), Dermot Kerrigan (Father Patrick), Jimmy Keogh (Ned Devine), Brendan F. Dempsey (Jim Kelly, lotto man), Matthew Devitt (Tom Tooney), Rennie Campbell (Rennie), Eamonn Doyle (Dicey Riley, the fiddleman), Raymond Maccormac (the whistler), Larry Randall (Father Mulligan), Jim Ashford, Anne Bancroft, Lewis Charles Barham, Colin Bendall, Dodo Bickerdike, Joy Birnie, James Bishop, Peter Bradford, Steven Burke, Derick Bussey, Norman Cain, Margaret Cain, Peter Carroll, Barbara Clague, Pam Courtenay Smith, Edwina Crebbin, Jill Cruddace, Ted Cruddace, Heather Dawes, George Egee, Jill Foster, Susan Hidson, Margaret Horsfield, John Kaighin, Stanley Karran, Una King, Anne Lace, Shirley Lewney, Alix Morrey, Pat O'Donohue, Ged Pearce, Stella Pixton, Joyce Pullin, Charlie Read, Thomas Reeder, John Scott, Jannie Smith, Barbara Stott, Molly Stott-Murray, Muzci Taylor, Johnnie Tweed, William Quigley, Brian Walker (villager of Tullymore)