Ian Beattie

Ian Beattie

Born: March 3, 1965
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Movies for Ian Beattie...

Title: Ancient Empires
Character: Pompey Magnus
Released: September 4, 2023
Type: TV
This seven-hour miniseries explores the foundations of the greatest empires of all time and the incredible stories of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
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Ann
Title: Ann
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on what happened to 15-year-old Ann Lovett in 1984. When she wakes up that morning, Ann feels that it is going to happen that day. She puts on her school uniform, but instead of going to school she is terrified of what is to come and quietly wanders the streets, hoping for human kindness and help, hoping for a miracle, while afraid to approach anyone. As a Catholic school student, she can in the end only count on the blessing of Virgin Mary and thus she gives birth to a baby boy beneath the statue of Our Lady in a grotto near the house of the congregation’s priest.
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Blackbird
Title: Blackbird
Character: Nick
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Troubled secret agent "Blackbird" abruptly retires from service and opens a luxurious nightclub in the Caribbean to escape the dark shadows of his past. An old flame arrives and reignites love in his life but she brings danger with her.
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Mandrake
Title: Mandrake
Character: Massey
Released: March 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A probation officer, Cathy Madden, is tasked with rehabilitating a notorious killer named 'Bloody' Mary Laidlaw back into society following a two-decade sentence.
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Title: The Spectacular
Character: Corey O'Keeffe
Released: January 2, 2022
Type: TV
In the late 1980s, a Dutch anti-terrorism detective sets out to take down an IRA cell ruthlessly targeting English military personnel on leave in the south of the Netherlands.
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Dana: The Original Derry Girl
Title: Dana: The Original Derry Girl
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: May 11, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1970, Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest. It was a moment that changed her life. This is an emotional and honest look back at the incredible story of what happened next.
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Title: Gangs of London
Character: Colin
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: TV
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
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Viking Destiny
Title: Viking Destiny
Character: Kirkwood
Released: July 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A Viking Princess is forced to flee her kingdom after being framed for the murder of her father, the King. Under the guidance of the God Odin, she travels the world gaining wisdom and building the army she needs to win back her throne.
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Life After Flash
Title: Life After Flash
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2017
Type: Movie
A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
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The Pugilist
Title: The Pugilist
Character: Desmond Shaw
Released: June 28, 2017
Type: Movie
After his eldest son is murdered in a gangland hit, an absentee father desperately tries to protect what's left of the shattered family he abandoned.
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The Journey
Title: The Journey
Character: Gerry Adams
Released: March 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
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A Sign of Things
Title: A Sign of Things
Character: Roy
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Having lost his job when the factory closed, dad Daniel is now seemingly devoting himself to the church. When his wife, stay-at-home mum Zara, agrees to let a racy cabaret club pay to advertise on the side of their house a family showdown ensues.
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Title: Barbarians Rising
Character: Varus
Released: June 6, 2016
Type: TV
Told from the perspective of the rebel leaders, the series chronicles a wave of rebellions against absolute power by those the Roman Empire called “barbarians” – tribes they viewed as beyond the fringe of civilization that lived a brutish and violent existence. But these also were men and women who launched epic struggles that shaped the world to come with a centuries-long fight to defeat the sprawling empire.
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The Truth Commissioner
Title: The Truth Commissioner
Character: Beckett
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
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The Climb
Title: The Climb
Character: Darren
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Recently widowed Julia pushes herself to climb a mountain for the first and only time.
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Title: Quantico
Character: Titus Walker
Released: September 27, 2015
Type: TV
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
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Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
Title: Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Glimpse the epic scale of Game of Thrones in this featurette that spends one day touring various Season 5 sets in Croatia, Spain and Ireland.
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Starred Up
Title: Starred Up
Character: Officer Johnson
Released: March 21, 2014
Type: Movie
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
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Title: 37 Days
Character: Tsar Nicholas II
Released: March 6, 2014
Type: TV
This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping miniseries set among the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.
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A Belfast Story
Title: A Belfast Story
Character: Colum
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. A new era brings new risks. There is peace, but that can also be deadly.
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Title: Vikings
Character: King Brihtwulf
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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Keith Lemon: The Film
Title: Keith Lemon: The Film
Character: Awards Host
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
With dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur just like his beloved Richard Branson, Lemon bids farewell to his hometown of Leeds and heads for the capital. When he becomes an overnight billionaire, it seems everything is going his way, but it's not long before he discovers that life can be just as cruel as it is kind.
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Title: Line of Duty
Character: Bob
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: TV
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Meryn Trant
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Brendan Smyth:  Betrayal of Trust
Title: Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
Character: Father Brendan Smyth
Released: March 13, 2011
Type: Movie
The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true extent of the clerical abuse scandal.
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Mo
Title: Mo
Character: Michael Stone
Released: January 31, 2010
Type: Movie
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
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Closing the Ring
Title: Closing the Ring
Character: Seamus McCarty
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Jackdaw
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Alexander
Title: Alexander
Character: Antigonus
Released: November 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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Stray Bullet
Title: Stray Bullet
Character: Pryke
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A charming woman in trouble entices a lawyer to pose as her husband which leads to him being framed for murder.
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Space Truckers
Title: Space Truckers
Character: Trooper
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
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The Hanging Gale
Title: The Hanging Gale
Character: Brian Sweeney
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
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One Of Us
Title: One Of Us
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest searches for the stranger in their midst.