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Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Darby O'Gill stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence Edward Watkin , the film stars Albert Sharpe as O'Gill alongside Janet Munro , Sean Connery , and Jimmy O'Dea .
In the film, O'Gill is an aging groundskeeper who engages in a friendly battle of wits with a leprechaun king, and is played by the actor Albert Sharpe. [1] One of the VeggieTales videos, The Wonderful Wizard Of Ha's, has a protagonist whose name is Darby O'Gill (played by Junior Asparagus), but the story itself is mainly a retelling of The ...
Her best known work, Darby O'Gill and the Good People (ISBN 0-9666701-0-8), was first published as a series of stories under the name Herminie Templeton in McClure's magazine in 1901–1902, before being published as a book in the United States in 1903. A second edition, published a year before her death, was under the name Herminie T. Kavanagh.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People; August 4, 1959 The Big Fisherman: Centurion Films, Inc. and Rowland V. Lee Production; Distribution only [11] September 10, 1959 Zorro the Avenger (Compilation film) Walt Disney Productions November 10, 1959 Third Man on the Mountain
Darby O'Gill and the Little People: Robert Stevenson: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery: United States: Journey to the Center of the Earth: Henry Levin: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl: United States: The Magic Weaver (Maria the Weaver) Aleksandr Rou: Mikhail Kuznetsov, Georgy Millyar, Anatoly Kubatsky: Soviet Union: Sampo (US Title ...
The method, known as the Darby O’Gill technique or forced perspective –- which has also been used in movies like “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy -– involves placing actors far apart to ...
Janet Munro (born Janet Neilson Horsburgh; 28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress.She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film Life for Ruth (1962).
Nora O'Mahoney, 76–77, Irish actress and lay missionary (Darby O'Gill and the Little People). Dietrich Prinz, 86, German-born computer science pioneer. Yem Sambaur, 76, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.