The Outsider

The Outsider (1979)

DramaHistory

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

Director: Tony Luraschi

Casts

	Craig Wasson as Michael Flaherty
	Sterling Hayden as Seamus Flaherty
	Patricia Quinn as Siobhan
	Niall O'Brien as Emmett Donovan
	T. P. McKenna as John Russell
	Niall Tóibín as The Farmer
	Frank Grimes as Tony Coyle
	Elizabeth Begley as Mrs Cochran
	Bosco Hogan as Finbar Donovan
	Ray McAnally as MacWhirter
	J.G. Devlin as Sean Tweeny
	Joe Dowling as Pat
	Aiden Grennell as Hanlan
	Joe McPartland as Joe McDermott
	Des Cave as Kevin McCann
	Joe Lynch as Sean Thompson
	David Collings as Maj. Nigel Percival
	Allan Cuthbertson as Stanley
	Geoffrey Palmer as Col. Wyndham
	Paul Antrim as Father Jameson
	Conal Kearney as Ted
	Johnny Murphy as Mr Flynn
	Des Nealon as Col. O'Darrell
	Edward Byrne as IRA Council Member 1
	Bill Foley as IRA Council Member 2
	Martin Dempsey as Van Driver
	Pat Leavy as Mary Russell
	Derek Young as UDR Sergeant
	Charles Mitchell as Newscaster 1
	Jimmy Greeley as Newscaster 2
	Tony Phipps as Ivor
	Martin Short as Boy Leader
	Annie D'Alton as Granny
	Derek Lord as Farmer's 1st Man
	Gerry Alexander as Tough British Sergeant
	Emmet Bergin as Special Branch Officer
	Patricia Alice Albrecht as Ginny
	Avril Gentles as Mrs Flaherty
	John Seitz as Mr Flaherty
	John Paul Leeming as Michael - aged 11
	Gabriel Byrne as Man in Street
	Paul Markey as Street Kid

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