Sean Scanlan

Sean Scanlan

Born: August 18, 1948
Died: April 17, 2017
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Movies for Sean Scanlan...

Natalie
Title: Natalie
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
An estranged woman travels home to her father's funeral in order to get closure with her prejudiced family.
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Whisky Galore
Title: Whisky Galore
Character: Old Roddy
Released: June 26, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
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Title: Scot Squad
Character: Hunter MacDonald
Released: October 27, 2014
Type: TV
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
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Billy Bongo
Title: Billy Bongo
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A young Scottish man becomes a local celebrity... but to what end?
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My Life So Far
Title: My Life So Far
Character: Andrew Burns
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
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The Ebb-Tide
Title: The Ebb-Tide
Character: Strickland
Released: March 29, 1998
Type: Movie
A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo and a questionable crew. As disaster befalls disaster, the crew finds itself on an uncharted island with a mad ex-sea captain who lives with a mute woman who threatens to kill them all.
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The Near Room
Title: The Near Room
Character: Mooney
Released: April 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Kenneth McIver
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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A Mind to Murder
Title: A Mind to Murder
Character: Neil Casey
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases.
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Title: The Tales of Para Handy
Character: Dougie
Released: July 31, 1994
Type: TV
The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It starred Gregor Fisher as Captain Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, Sean Scanlan as first mate Dougie Cameron, Rikki Fulton as engineer Dan Macphail and Andrew Fairlie as Sunny Jim. These four made up the crew of the puffer 'Vital Spark' which was employed by the Campbell Shipping Company, headquartered in Glasgow and run by Andrew Campbell
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Arnold McGowan
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Dennis Flowers
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Blue Black Permanent
Title: Blue Black Permanent
Character: Andrew Cunningham
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
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The Big Man
Title: The Big Man
Character: Alan
Released: August 31, 1990
Type: Movie
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
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Leaving
Title: Leaving
Character: Big Mac
Released: February 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.
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Tumbledown
Title: Tumbledown
Character: Welsh Man
Released: May 29, 1988
Type: Movie
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Alex
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Sean
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Title: The Beiderbecke Affair
Character: DC Joe
Released: January 6, 1985
Type: TV
The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits to British Television since the 1960s included the preceding 4 part mini series Get Lost! for ITV in 1981. The Beiderbecke Affair has a similar style to Get Lost!, where Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold played in an ensemble cast. Although The Beiderbecke Affair was intended as a sequel to Get Lost!, Alun Armstrong proved to be unavailable and the premise was reworked. It is the first part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy with the two sequel series being The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection.
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Kim
Title: Kim
Character: Sergeant Major
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Constable MacPherson
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Sam Weller
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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A Sense of Freedom
Title: A Sense of Freedom
Character: Jackie
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.