Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill
Release: 1990-06-03
·Runtime: 240m
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Yorkshire Television
Zenith Entertainment
Cast
Kevin Stoney
as Judge Kelly
Steve Money
as Special Branch Officer
Jack Shepherd
as DCC John Stalker
T. P. McKenna
as Chief Constable Sir John Harmon
Philip Bretherton
as DI Gaffrey
Denys Hawthorne
as Professor
Richard Hawley
as Constable John Robinson
Breffni McKenna
as Martin McCauley
Richard Butler
as Chief Constable Colin Sampson
Patrick Drury
as Detective Inspector
B.J. Hogg
as E4A Officer
Nick Stringer
as Kavin Taylor
Barbara Marten
as Sheila Stalker
David Calder
as DCS John Thorburn
Aaron Harris
as Sergeant 'X'
Emer McCourt
as E4A Officer
Niall Cusack
as Pat Finucane
Peter Vollebregt
as Harmon's Secretary
Steve Halliwell
as Sgt Quinn
Christopher Dunne
as E4A Officer
Mark Jordon
as DS Keith Farrington
Michael O'Hagan
as Special Branch Superintendent
Gary Whelan
as Constable David Brannigan
Daragh O'Malley
as Constable 'Y'
Gerard Horan
as E4A Information Handler
Des McAleer
as CID Supt. Jimmy Richards
Mark Moraghan
as SB Constable
Michael Simkins
as DI Brian Jackson
Ian McElhinney
as ACC Trevor Forbes
George Shane
as DCI Samuel George Flanagan
Vass Anderson
as Magistrate
Peter Cellier
as MI5 Senior Officer
Colin Carnegie
as Expert
James Greene
as DPP