Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle

Born: April 14, 1961
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Robert Carlyle, OBE (born April 14, 1961) is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later. He also portrayed Doctor Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe.

Movies for Robert Carlyle...

The Performance
Title: The Performance
Released: October 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.
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North of Normal
Title: North of Normal
Character: Papa Dick
Released: July 28, 2023
Type: Movie
After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.
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Title: The Full Monty
Character: Gary 'Gaz' Schofield
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: TV
Taking place 25 years after the original British smash hit, the same band of brothers navigate the post-industrial city of Sheffield and society's crumbling healthcare, education, and employment sectors.
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Title: COBRA
Character: Robert Sutherland
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: TV
As widespread power outages cause chaos and threaten lives across the country, the COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) committee comprised of the UK’s leading experts and politicians, gathers to find a way to turn the lights back on.
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Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Ogilvy
Released: November 17, 2019
Type: TV
In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
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Yesterday
Title: Yesterday
Character: John Lennon (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
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T2 Trainspotting
Title: T2 Trainspotting
Character: Begbie / Begbie's Father
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Title: Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Title: Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Character: Self
Released: August 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
Title: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Character: Barney
Released: July 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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California Solo
Title: California Solo
Character: Lachlan MacAldonich
Released: November 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.
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Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin / Weaver
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
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Title: Stargate Universe
Character: Nicholas Rush
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: TV
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
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The Unloved
Title: The Unloved
Character: Lucy's Father
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
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The Tournament
Title: The Tournament
Character: Father Joseph MacAvoy
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
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Zig Zag Love
Title: Zig Zag Love
Character: Jacko
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
When 16-year-old Peter suddenly loses his best friend to cancer, he breaks out of hospital and hits the road in pursuit of life, liberty and love with the first girl he meets.
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I Know You Know
Title: I Know You Know
Character: Charlie
Released: February 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father.
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The Man Who Walked Around The World
Title: The Man Who Walked Around The World
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A six minute short film for Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskey featuring Robert Carlyle walking the hills of Loch Doyne in Scotland recounting, in full detail, the story of how the Scottish farmer turned his product into the world famous brand it is today.
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Stone of Destiny
Title: Stone of Destiny
Character: John MacCormick
Released: December 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
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Summer
Title: Summer
Character: Shaun
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
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24: Redemption
Title: 24: Redemption
Character: Carl Benton
Released: November 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
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Title: The Last Enemy
Character: David Russell
Released: February 17, 2008
Type: TV
Stephen Ezard's search for the truth about the death of his brother Michael catapults him into an international conspiracy and a passionate love affair.
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Code Red: The Making of '28 Weeks Later'
Title: Code Red: The Making of '28 Weeks Later'
Character: Self / Don
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
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Flood
Title: Flood
Character: Rob Morrison
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
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28 Weeks Later
Title: 28 Weeks Later
Character: Donald Harris
Released: April 26, 2007
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Born Equal
Title: Born Equal
Character: Robert
Released: December 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
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Eragon
Title: Eragon
Character: Durza
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
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Carry on Ken
Title: Carry on Ken
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.
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Title: Human Trafficking
Character: Sergei Karpovich
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: TV
The story of an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and the struggles of three trafficked women.
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Dead Fish
Title: Dead Fish
Character: Danny Devine
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
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Class of '76
Title: Class of '76
Character: DI Tom Monroe
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
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Title: Class of '76
Character: DI Tom Monroe
Released: October 3, 2005
Type: TV
DI Tom Monroe investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of classmates over a period of years from the same 1976 form class.
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The Mighty Celt
Title: The Mighty Celt
Character: O
Released: February 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal's mother, Kate, must adjust her life when O, a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story.
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Title: Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Character: Frank Keane
Released: January 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
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Title: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
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Title: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Character: James I
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: TV
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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Title: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Character: King James I
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: TV
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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Title: Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: TV
This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
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Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Title: Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Character: Self / Narrator (voice)
Released: November 20, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary about Die Another Day.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: David O'Sullivan
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Title: Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Character: Jimmy
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
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The 51st State
Title: The 51st State
Character: Felix DeSouza
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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Title: 24
Character: Carl Benton
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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To End All Wars
Title: To End All Wars
Character: Major Ian Campbell
Released: September 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Title: There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Character: Eric Wirral
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
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James Bond Down River
Title: James Bond Down River
Released: February 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Promotional documentary filmed at the London East End Docklands area and River Thames for the filming of the opening boat chase for The World Is Not Enough (1999).
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The Beach
Title: The Beach
Character: Daffy
Released: February 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
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Angela's Ashes
Title: Angela's Ashes
Character: Malachy McCourt
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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The World Is Not Enough
Title: The World Is Not Enough
Character: Renard
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
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Plunkett & MacLeane
Title: Plunkett & MacLeane
Character: Will Plunkett
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
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Title: Chewin' the Fat
Released: January 13, 1999
Type: TV
Chewin' the Fat is a Scottish comedy sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show. Chewin' the Fat first started as a radio series on BBC Radio Scotland. The later television show, which ran for four series, was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland, but series three and four, as well as highlights from the first two series, were later broadcast to the rest of the United Kingdom. Although the last series ended in February 2002, 6 Hogmanay specials were broadcast and offered on DVD when purchasing the Scottish Sun between 2000 to 2005, one every year. Chewin' the Fat gave rise to the spin-off show Still Game, a sitcom focusing on the two old male characters Jack and Victor. The series was mostly filmed in and around Glasgow and occasionally West Dunbartonshire. The English idiom to chew the fat means to chat casually, but thoroughly, about subjects of mutual interest.
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Ravenous
Title: Ravenous
Character: Ives / Colqhoun
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
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Title: Looking After Jo Jo
Character: John Joe 'Jo Jo' McCann
Released: January 12, 1998
Type: TV
Jo Jo is an Edinburgh Goodfella with a sharp mind and a cavalier attitude to law. In the bleak, edgy climate of the 1980's Jo Jo is seen by many on the estate as a hero; out-manoeuvring the police while supporting his close-knit family. What is it that draws the charming and confident Jo Jo to Lorraine, a vulnerable woman obsessed by Marilyn Monroe? What figure from his past is fuelling his fantasies and driving him towards darker crimes and the quicksand of heroin? Can Jo Jo look after himself when he doesn't know who he is?
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Face
Title: Face
Character: Ray
Released: September 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
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The Full Monty
Title: The Full Monty
Character: Gary "Gaz" Schofield
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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Carla's Song
Title: Carla's Song
Character: George Lennox
Released: October 30, 1996
Type: Movie
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
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Trainspotting
Title: Trainspotting
Character: Begbie
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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Go Now
Title: Go Now
Character: Nick Cameron
Released: September 16, 1995
Type: Movie
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Hamish Macbeth
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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Priest
Title: Priest
Character: Graham
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
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To Be A Somebody
Title: To Be A Somebody
Released: October 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A criminologist is pursuing a skinhead who is as murderous as he is educated.
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Marooned
Title: Marooned
Character: Peter Camaron
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The film centers around Peter Camaron who works at Left Luggage at a train station.
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Being Human
Title: Being Human
Character: Priest
Released: May 6, 1994
Type: Movie
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Title: 99-1
Character: Detective Constable Trevor Prescott
Released: January 5, 1994
Type: TV
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Safe
Title: Safe
Character: Nosty
Released: October 13, 1993
Type: Movie
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
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Title: Cracker
Character: Albie
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: TV
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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Tender Blue Eyes
Title: Tender Blue Eyes
Character: Richard Fascetti
Released: July 15, 1992
Type: Movie
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Riff-Raff
Title: Riff-Raff
Character: Stevie
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
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Silent Scream
Title: Silent Scream
Character: Big Woodsy
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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Byrne About Byrne
Title: Byrne About Byrne
Character: Spanky Farrell
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
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Title: Toxic Town
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story of the tragic toxic waste case in the East Midlands and three mothers’ “David and Goliath fight for justice” in the late 1980s.
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Am I Irvine Welsh?
Title: Am I Irvine Welsh?
Character: Francis 'Franco' Begbie (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A year in the company of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work Trainspotting into a West End musical.