What's the deal with Colm Meany?

pvt. joker

Is he in every irish film ever made? I like him and all but come on. He was pretty good in interMission though

pbsuxok1znja4r

This is the deal with Colm Meaney

Karoma

Yes. He's in every Irish film. Ever. In fact, it's a law.
He dresses up as other people; he has different stage names; and is known to play the female parts as well as male, often at the exact same time.
Thank you for asking; a signed pair of Meany Knickers are on the way to you.




http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/ (Bio. Excluding some of the more risque works.)


If you'd like me to move this to, I dunnooo, the Film forum or Recycle Bin, or something - let me know.

pbsuxok1znja4r

"Risque" works, you say?

Tar.Aldarion

Ah, I love Colm Meany, makes films better!
Factola.

Mossy Monk

that is true

Star Trek though :eek:

pvt. joker

Karoma wrote:

Yes. He's in every Irish film. Ever. In fact, it's a law.
He dresses up as other people; he has different stage names; and is known to play the female parts as well as male, often at the exact same time.
Thank you for asking; a signed pair of Meany Knickers are on the way to you.




http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/ (Bio. Excluding some of the more risque works.)


If you'd like me to move this to, I dunnooo, the Film forum or Recycle Bin, or something - let me know.

i was being a teeny bit facetious.

Karoma

You were being many things.
Take the reply as it was intended. Tekkit!


PS: My offers stand.

TerrorFirmer

"Are you going to put this in your film, Gerry?"

Colm Meaney turns around and slaps them both across the face.

Best part in the entire movie....

Collie D

Think every country with a small to medium sized film industry has one of those actors that pop up everywhere. See Gerard Depardieu

pvt. joker

HavoK wrote:

"Are you going to put this in your film, Gerry?"

Colm Meaney turns around and slaps them both across the face.

Best part in the entire movie....

:rofl:

i just watched The General and surprisngly enough, no Colm Meany

pvt. joker

Karoma wrote:

You were being many things.
Take the reply as it was intended. Tekkit!


PS: My offers stand.

why does this place have so many forums?

Nevyn

Becasue there are so many posters and so many things to talk about.

Odd never saw mr meany in the quiet man, dancing at lungnash, circle of friends, the wind that shakes the barely.

LostinBlanch

pvt. joker wrote:

:rofl:

i just watched The General and surprisngly enough, no Colm Meany

Brendan Gleeson!

And I don't think anyone has seen them in the same room together at the same time!

Thrill

Collie D wrote:

Think every country with a small to medium sized film industry has one of those actors that pop up everywhere. See Gerard Depardieu

Antonio Banderas
Arnold schwarzenegger
Mel Gibson
J.C.Van Damme

Colm is great. Loved him in The Snapper.

Karoma

Speaking of which ... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000367/
wonderful profile photo

Kingsize

Irish Comedy movie = Colm meany Saying bollix
Gritty Irish drama movie main character male = Brendan Gleeson being big & menacing & saying bollix
Gritty Irish drama movie main character female = Ger Ryan doing her "whingey face"
Everything else = Sean McGinley thanking Gleeson, Ryan & Meany for their cast offs

pvt. joker

pvt. joker wrote:

:rofl:

i just watched The General and surprisngly enough, no Colm Meany

He was in it. You just didn't look hard enough.

Kipperhell

LostinBlanch wrote:

Brendan Gleeson!

And I don't think anyone has seen them in the same room together at the same time!

The Snapper blows that theory out of the water. The spend a lot of time talking in the film. He tells Meany that Burgess is the baby's father he might even have the line "It's you who has to buy the little feckin' tracksuits"

At least it is better than the Australian actors selection where they all seem to be about in TV series and films

kevmy

First Irish man in space thats the deal with Colm Meaney. Screw you Bill Cullen!!!!

r3nu4l

Ah Meaney and Gleeson, two stalwarts of Irish cinema They really are the same person, like Ali G and Borat.

His real name is John McGillacuddy and he fishes off a trawler based in Killybegs, doing a bit of acting in the off-season as a back up for when the EU finally makes all fishing illegal

He created the Meany and Gleeson alter-egos to gain a better range of roles and this seems to have worked as pointed out by KingSize!

The appearance of Meany and Gleeson together in the Snapper is nothing more than clever camera-work and trickery, can't believe everyone has fallen for it for so long now.


Please note that apart from the first sentance, the rest of the post is pure "bo**ix"

Fighting Irish

pvt. joker wrote:

Is he in every irish film ever made? I like him and all but come on. He was pretty good in interMission though

I use to like him but i seen him on either the late late or turbidy a while back and he seems like a right stuck up cun--t now

r3nu4l

Fighting Irish wrote:

I use to like him but i seen him on either the late late or turbidy a while back and he seems like a right stuck up cun--t now

He's an actor luvvie, what he's doing is art and art should always be taken seriously darling

shane86

r3nu4l wrote:

He's an actor luvvie, what he's doing is art and art should always be taken seriously darling

Hes an artiste, as he said in Intermission (with an emphasis on the "teest" sound):)

Lust4Life

Posted by Thaedydal:
Odd never saw mr meany in the quiet man, dancing at lungnash, circle of friends, the wind that shakes the barely.

Oh there had to be someone carrying Baby Colm through the streets somewhere in those movies! Roffles!

scion

lol @ Colm Meaney in a star trek uniform

Chief O'Brien

Scraggs

Whats the name of the guy who is in pretty much every Irish/English/Scottish movie and nearly every Irish TV drama I have seen [Maonlai maybe??] He's not really a bad actor or anything but he pisses me off to the last.. no idea why.

Edit: Its this fúcker Whats the fook is his name??

MOTHERTRUCKER

Whats in Colm Meaneys toilet?

The captains log.

Ruu_Old

scion wrote:

lol @ Colm Meaney in a star trek uniform

Chief O'Brien

He doesn't like going to Star Trek conventions though I heard him say in an interview, I wonder why.

Scraggs, thats Sean McGinley

Mossy Monk

Scraggs wrote:

Whats the name of the guy who is in pretty much every Irish/English/Scottish movie and nearly every Irish TV drama I have seen [Maonlai maybe??] He's not really a bad actor or anything but he pisses me off to the last.. no idea why.

Edit: Its this fúcker Whats the fook is his name??

he reminds me of aongus mcanally

simu

Ruu wrote:

He doesn't like going to Star Trek conventions though I heard him say in an interview, I wonder why.

Boo if he thinks he's above that. I thought he wasn't bad at reprazentin the Oirish in the 24th century.

mickith

This is the deal with Colm Meaney

good auld Shey Muldoon and the chlan. you have got to love it.
Colm Meaney= legend

deman

Collie D wrote:

Think every country with a small to medium sized film industry has one of those actors that pop up everywhere. See Gerard Depardieu

Too true. I'm in Finland - population 5,000,000, almost the same as Ireland, small film industry, same actors in almost every film.

see...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249020/

pvt. joker

Fighting Irish wrote:

I use to like him but i seen him on either the late late or turbidy a while back and he seems like a right stuck up cun--t now

i see you're on a little hiatus from that other site :rofl:

Tar.Aldarion

simu wrote:

Boo if he thinks he's above that. I thought he wasn't bad at reprazentin the Oirish in the 24th century.

Tis true!

It's his best role.
Chief and Julain, ah, good times.
I wonder what he got up to in the transporter room on the enterprise. All alone there.

pvt. joker

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Tis true!

It's his best role.
Chief and Julain, ah, good times.
I wonder what he got up to in the transporter room on the enterprise. All alone there.

probably rubbing one out to his memories of Andrea Corr (commitments and the boys and girl from county clare)

pvt. joker

F the six degrees of kevin bacon. you can probably do the 1 degree of colm meany.

simu

pfft, all there is is Colm Meaney - the rest of us are just part of a holodeck program(me) he created.

LostinBlanch

Scraggs wrote:

Whats the name of the guy who is in pretty much every Irish/English/Scottish movie and nearly every Irish TV drama I have seen [Maonlai maybe??] He's not really a bad actor or anything but he pisses me off to the last.. no idea why.

Edit: Its this fúcker Whats the fook is his name??

Check out no 4!

Kingsize wrote:

Irish Comedy movie = Colm meany Saying bollix
Gritty Irish drama movie main character male = Brendan Gleeson being big & menacing & saying bollix
Gritty Irish drama movie main character female = Ger Ryan doing her "whingey face"
Everything else = Sean McGinley thanking Gleeson, Ryan & Meany for their cast offs

aidan_dunne

scion wrote:

lol @ Colm Meaney in a star trek uniform

Chief O'Brien

You know, having seen Colm in the likes of 'The Snapper' and 'The Van' and stuff like that over the years, I was never really able to take him seriously anytime I saw him in 'Star Trek'. Anytime I saw him I just expected him to suddenly break into a thick, Dub accent and start coming out with stuff like:

Captain Picard: "Bridge to Engineering. How soon before we can get the warp engines back online?"

Chief O' Brien (Meaney): "Ah, will ya hold your horses, ya baldy auld bollix! I'm working as fast as I can!"

Picard: "Wh... what did you just say, Chief O' Brien?"

O' Brien: "I said, hold yore bleeding horses, baldy conscience, I'm working as f**kin' fast as I can, right! Jaysus, there's always something with you, isn't there, ya auld bollix! Here I am, up to me knackers in some sort of glowing, radioactive shíte, busting me balls trying to get things working again and all I hear outta youse is, "Get the engines back online, Chief O' Brien." "Fix the photon torpedo launchers, Chief O' Brien." "Transport us back up to the ship, Chief O' Brien". There's never any f**kin' rest with you, is there?"

Picard: "Well I never! Chief O' Brien, I have never heard such.... such.... debase language in all my life! How dare you refer to me, your Captain, in such terms. Now I command you to get those warp engines back online this instant! We're like sitting ducks here at the moment and there's a Romulan warbird outside with their weapons fully charged and pointed right at us demanding we surrender or they will blow us to pieces!"

O' Brien: "Well then....... tell them to go f**k themselves, boss!"



So then, am I the only one who used to wait for a scene like that to happen in 'Star Trek'?

lostexpectation

scion wrote:

lol @ Colm Meaney in a star trek uniform

Chief O'Brien

the man with the big head and the small face,

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Chief O'Brien, bringing sexy back?

Seth Brundle

Fighting Irish wrote:

I use to like him but i seen him on either the late late or turbidy a while back and he seems like a right stuck up cun--t now

It was last weeks late late show - he was the 'intruder' who called Kenny & Byrne an ársehole.
Wonderful acting!

Tar.Aldarion

pvt. joker wrote:

probably rubbing one out to his memories of Andrea Corr (commitments and the boys and girl from county clare)

Don't be silly that's what the holodeck is for.
Best invention that is not invented, ever.

pvt. joker

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Don't be silly that's what the holodeck is for.
Best invention that is not invented, ever.

i need a holodeck, stat!

faceman

Karoma wrote:

Yes. He's in every Irish film. Ever. In fact, it's a law.
He dresses up as other people; he has different stage names; and is known to play the female parts as well as male, often at the exact same time.
Thank you for asking; a signed pair of Meany Knickers are on the way to you.

Con Air [\shivers]

faceman

scion wrote:

lol @ Colm Meaney in a star trek uniform

i'll never forget watching the first episode of DS9 and hearing him go "those bloody cardassians" in the same tone as taxi drivers would go on about foreign nationals!!

ahem, i am no longer a nerd tho.

pvt. joker

Wasn't Colm Meany in The Quiet Man? He played the infant

simu

Was he in F****d in Ireland? :eek:

Shabadu

lostexpectation wrote:

the man with the big head and the small face,

Oh fug. I just lolled up a lung. =(

Lust4Life

Posted by Tar Alderion:
Don't be silly that's what the holodeck is for.
Best invention that is not invented, ever.

Oh, you are SO right!
Of course I'd be planting a web cam in there and blackmailing people and making millions.