Dead Still is a six-part Irish-Canadian television drama series, which premiered on May 18, 2020 on Acorn TV and May 15, 2020 Citytv. The series is a co-production between Ireland's Deadpan Pictures and Canada's Shaftesbury Films and is written by John Morton, from a story by John Morton and Imogen Murphy, and directed by Imogen Murphy and Craig David Wallace.
In 2021 Dead Still was nominated for 7 IFTAs at the 17th Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Drama and Best Director.
In 2021, Dead Still writer John Morton won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series.
Premise Dead Still follows Brock Blennerhasset, a well regarded photographer in 1880s Ireland who specialises in memorial portraiture – photographing the recently deceased – as he is drawn into a series of murders which appear to be linked to his work.
Cast Michael Smiley as Brock Blennerhasset Aidan O'Hare as Frederick Regan, an officer of the D.M.P. Eileen O'Higgins as Nancy Vickers, Brock's niece and an aspiring actress Kerr Logan as Conall Malloy, a gravedigger and Brock's assistant Jimmy Smallhorne as Cecil Carruthers Mark Rendall as Percy Cummins Martin Donovan as Bushrod Whacker Aoife Duffin as Betty Regan Peter Campion as Henry Vickers Rhys Dunlop as Ronnie Roper Fiona Bell as Abigail Vickers Gemma-Leah Devereux as Hanna Dubby Patrick FitzSymons as William Glendinning Jordanne Jones as Lily Molloy Laura Murray as Eva Lambert / The Ghost Queen Mary Murray as Aline Lambert Lynn Rafferty as Bessie Bulger Shane Lennon as Harry Farrelly John Morton as Ossie Burke Natalia Cooper as Vicenta
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