Billy Riddoch

Billy Riddoch

Movies for Billy Riddoch...

Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Rabble Rouser
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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One Last Chance
Title: One Last Chance
Character: Dr. MacFarlane
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
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Trainspotting
Title: Trainspotting
Character: Gail's Father
Released: February 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Lachlan McCrae
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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Shallow Grave
Title: Shallow Grave
Character: Newspaper Editor
Released: December 22, 1994
Type: Movie
When David, Juliet, and Alex are searching for a fourth roommate for their flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo. However, they soon find Hugo dead, with a large sum of cash being among his belongings. The three friends decide to keep the money, dismembering and burying Hugo's body. However, their newfound fortune begins to corrode their friendships, with each roommate resorting to manipulation tactics to scam the others out of the money.
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The Long Roads
Title: The Long Roads
Character: Donnie
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: Movie
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Hammond
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Forensic Examiner-Hammond
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Title: Border Warfare
Character: William Lyon / Henry V111 / Seaton / Wariston
Released: February 10, 1990
Type: TV
A three-episode mini-series chronicling the history of Scotland from ancient times through the union with England and culminating with the rise of Thatcherism and the introduction of the Poll Tax.
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Silent Scream
Title: Silent Scream
Character: Lenny
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Fat George
Released: March 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Robert and Gordon, two talented teenage footballers from Wick, are invited to Glasgow for a week's trial with a big club. It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.
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The Shutter Falls
Title: The Shutter Falls
Character: Jim Flett
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
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Blood Red Roses
Title: Blood Red Roses
Character: Harry Sim
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Knockback: 2
Title: Knockback: 2
Character: Kitchen Officer
Released: February 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
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The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
Title: The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
Character: Donald Darroch
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
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Death Watch
Title: Death Watch
Character: Truck Driver
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Just a Boys' Game
Title: Just a Boys' Game
Released: November 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.
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A Sense of Freedom
Title: A Sense of Freedom
Character: Fisherman
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Title: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Character: Jock Menzies
Released: February 24, 1976
Type: Movie
TV dramatisation of the trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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Just Another Saturday
Title: Just Another Saturday
Released: July 5, 1975
Type: Movie
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.