James Cosmo

James Cosmo

Born: May 24, 1948
in Clydebank - West Dunbartonshire - Scotland - UK
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James Cosmos is known for his film roles as Angus MacLeod in Highlander, Campbell in Braveheart and as Father Christmas in the adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Over the years he has also had roles in films such as Trainspotting, The Last Legion, Troy, and 2081 . He also appeared in Take the High Road as Alex Geddes from 1982-83.

He is also a staple of British television, with credits in hundreds of television shows, Cosmo made a name for himself playing Scottish "tough guy" characters.

Movies for James Cosmo...

Title: Highland Cops
Character: Narrator
Released: April 2, 2023
Type: TV
Welcome to Britain's biggest beat. Covering 12,000 square miles of loch, glens, islands and mountains, cutting-edge crime fighting meets traditional ways of life.
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Title: Six Four
Character: Bill Mackie
Released: March 30, 2023
Type: TV
A dark and compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal, and an uncompromising search for the truth when Chris and Michelle O’Neill’s teenage daughter goes missing.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
France is in turmoil and a new, naive King finds himself manipulated by the evil Cardinal Richelieu. With a corrupt commander of the royal guard by his side the Cardinal employs the expertise of the devious and wicked Milady de Winter in a plot to bring down the monarchy and drag the country into war. As France burns the Cardinal will take control. All that stands between them and victory are the remnants of an elite group who wore loyalty to crown and country. Above all else The Musketeers will stand against the odds to foil this deadly plot.
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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Title: Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Character: Mr. Fezziwig (voice)
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.
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My Sailor My Love
Title: My Sailor My Love
Character: Howard
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.
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Breath
Title: Breath
Character: Nick
Released: January 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling inside a hole in the ground and remains blocked inside there, where no one can neither see nor hear her.
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The Kindred
Title: The Kindred
Character: Frank Menzies
Released: December 28, 2021
Type: Movie
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
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Jagame Thandhiram
Title: Jagame Thandhiram
Character: Peter Sprott
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.
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Skylines
Title: Skylines
Character: Grant
Released: October 25, 2020
Type: Movie
When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
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Off Grid
Title: Off Grid
Character: John Tanner
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A man takes to a remote hideout with his sick wife, where they live in isolation as he battles to protect her life, and his own sanity, from a supernatural threat plaguing humanity. When a drifter happens upon their cabin and they take him in, old wounds are exposed and a harrowing twist reveals the true nature of the catastrophe that has befallen the couple.
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Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Character: Benedict
Released: November 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Lost and alone, a young girl forms an unlikely alliance with a lonely homeless man as she struggles to get a message to her family in time for Christmas.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Farder Coram
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow
Character: Mr. Charles
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A film about soldiers trying to reintegrate into society after tours of duty.
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Title: Chernobyl
Character: Miner
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Title: The Bay
Character: Bill Bradwell
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: TV
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
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Get Duked!
Title: Get Duked!
Character: Farmer
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
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Title: The Name of the Rose
Character: Jorge of Burgos
Released: March 4, 2019
Type: TV
Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.
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The Hole in the Ground
Title: The Hole in the Ground
Character: Des Brady
Released: March 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
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Malevolent
Title: Malevolent
Character: Grandpa
Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Movie
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
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Ashes in the Snow
Title: Ashes in the Snow
Character: Mr. Stakas
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
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Outlaw King
Title: Outlaw King
Character: Robert Bruce Senior
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
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Title: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Character: Luka Gocharov
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: TV
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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In Darkness
Title: In Darkness
Character: Niall
Released: May 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
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Darkness Comes
Title: Darkness Comes
Character: Policeman
Released: May 15, 2018
Type: Movie
When Eddie Bowen hooks up with the sexually aggressive Suze Phillips he thinks it's his lucky night. It's not. He's drugged and trapped within a specially-prepared room. So begins an ordeal that threatens to break not just his body but also his mind. The psychotic Suze uses Eddie's flesh and blood to carry out a ritual that changes the very room itself. The light is dying and the darkness is coming alive. There's something in the shadows, something that's coming for Eddie. Can he escape in time? Or will the darkness claim him..?
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Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre
Title: Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre
Character: Narrator
Released: May 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Souther and Nordland forces have been locked in war for decades on Nu-Earth. The war has turned the planet toxic. Genetic Infantrymen designed to survive the poisonous atmosphere are deployed in a surprise offensive. The plan is leaked and the Genetic Infantrymen (GI's) don't stand a chance. They are ambushed in the Quartz Zone and are massacred.
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Title: Hold the Sunset
Character: Bob
Released: February 18, 2018
Type: TV
Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture his boyhood happiness.
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London Heist
Title: London Heist
Character: Ray
Released: June 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts his life in danger. The devastation that Jack soon discovers puts his very own existence into question.
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Wonder Woman
Title: Wonder Woman
Character: FIeld Marshall Haig
Released: May 30, 2017
Type: Movie
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Title: SS-GB
Character: Harry Woods
Released: February 19, 2017
Type: TV
Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
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T2 Trainspotting
Title: T2 Trainspotting
Character: Renton'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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Eliminators
Title: Eliminators
Character: Cooper
Released: December 6, 2016
Type: Movie
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
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Monochrome
Title: Monochrome
Character: Roger Daniels
Released: October 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A disillusioned young woman becomes a serial killer who targets wealthy land-owners, and a brilliant detective must use his unusual neurological condition to track her down.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Quintus Arius
Released: August 17, 2016
Type: Movie
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
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Whisky Galore
Title: Whisky Galore
Character: Macalister the Minister
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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Dark Signal
Title: Dark Signal
Character: Alan
Released: May 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.
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Title: The Durrells
Character: Captain Creech
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
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Breakdown
Title: Breakdown
Character: Albert Chapman
Released: January 15, 2016
Type: Movie
A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers.
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Bunker: Project 12
Title: Bunker: Project 12
Character: Brian Balanowsky
Released: January 8, 2016
Type: Movie
At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful, would have changed the course of history. The mission, "Project 12," was ultimately deemed too dangerous to continue and the scientists involved were to be exterminated. Three scientists escaped and Project 12 was sealed in a well-guarded bunker, never to be seen again...until now. The lead scientist for Project 12 has now become the target of a worldwide manhunt, as he is the lone survivor of the Project 12 team and is the only man who knows the secrets that have been buried in the bunker. What secret does he possess, and who is financing the operation to bring Project 12 back to life and what is their hidden agenda
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Estranged
Title: Estranged
Character: Albert
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
Title: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Character: James Henderson
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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The Pyramid Texts
Title: The Pyramid Texts
Character: Ray
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: Movie
If we have been remiss in our life, and hurt the people we most love, is it ever too late to redress the balance? Ray, a lonely old boxer, desperately estranged from his son, records his loves, his regrets, and his greatest life lessons to a camera in an empty boxing gym. His is the desperate hope that no estrangement is permanent, and that it is never too late to say sorry.
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Amélia & Duarte
Title: Amélia & Duarte
Character: Narrator (English)
Released: May 21, 2015
Type: Movie
In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
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Moonwalkers
Title: Moonwalkers
Character: Dawson
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the US administration? This is the premise of a totally plausible conspiracy theory that takes us to swinging sixties London, where a stubborn CIA agent will never find Kubrick but is forced to team up with a lousy manager of a seedy rock band to develop the biggest con of all time.
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We Still Kill the Old Way
Title: We Still Kill the Old Way
Character: Arthur
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
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Title: New Worlds
Character: Goffe
Released: April 1, 2014
Type: TV
Set in the turbulent 1680s, this four-part drama takes place on both sides of the Atlantic, as these two young men and two young women commit their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. New Worlds is a gripping story of love and loss and the human price paid for the freedoms we enjoy today.
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The Christmas Candle
Title: The Christmas Candle
Character: Herbert Hopewell
Released: November 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
Title: Justin and the Knights of Valour
Character: Blucher (voice)
Released: August 9, 2013
Type: Movie
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
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Get Lucky
Title: Get Lucky
Character: Mr. Zigic
Released: August 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Lucky is a small time criminal and he's happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the 'funny money' to avoid problems for himself.
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Hammer of the Gods
Title: Hammer of the Gods
Character: King Bagsecg
Released: July 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom.
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Title: Shetland
Character: Arthur McCall
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: TV
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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The Golden Scallop
Title: The Golden Scallop
Character: Judge Wellington
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A comedy about a fried seafood cooking competition. The 43rd Golden Scallop pits a food truck seeking redemption, an aging former champion and a well financed, novelty friendly fish house against each other in the truest test of short order cooking mettle.
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Songs for Amy
Title: Songs for Amy
Character: Murdo
Released: May 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Sean O'Malley, a struggling Irish musician, writes an album for the love of his life in an attempt to redeem himself, with the help and hindrance of his misfit band mates.
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Citadel
Title: Citadel
Character: Priest
Released: March 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. Upon discovering the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children, he learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - the abandoned tower block, known as the Citadel.
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Title: The Chase Celebrity Special
Character: Themselves
Released: October 29, 2011
Type: TV
Celebrity special series of The Chase. Contestants must pit their wits against the Chaser, a ruthless quiz genius determined to stop them winning the cash prize.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Roger Seymour
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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The Glass Man
Title: The Glass Man
Character: Pecco
Released: August 26, 2011
Type: Movie
The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the current economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector with an offer that surely cannot be turned down.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Jeor Mormont
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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No Saints for Sinners
Title: No Saints for Sinners
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Mickey O'Hara is a committed IRA member but his days of freedom fighting are long gone, leaving him peddling drugs and disenchanted with "the cause." When a deal goes wrong, things take a dramatic turn for Mickey, who is forced to kill his partner. Marked for death, Mickey flees to LA, determined to make a fresh start and leave his violent past behind. When a close friend runs afoul of some powerful drug dealers, Mickey temporarily resorts to his old ways to help him get out of trouble. However, instead of making things better, Mickey unwittingly sets off a chain of events that reawakens the ghosts of his past and threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. Written by Trinity Filmed Entertainment
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Laird
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something, terrified of being found. Their hunter, Cathal, soon picks up the trail. Intent on tracking Mary and Fergal, he will go to any lengths to succeed in his quest, often using dark arts to aid him. Mary’s only defence is to use an ancient form of her own magic to protect her only son. When local residents begin to be brutally murdered by an unknown life force, the sense of fear escalates. Is Cathal the beast responsible for the killing? Or is it the beast that he is trying to destroy?
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The Santa Incident
Title: The Santa Incident
Character: Nick
Released: December 9, 2010
Type: Movie
During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must help him, so Christmas is not jeopardized.
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Donkeys
Title: Donkeys
Character: Alfred
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
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The Runway
Title: The Runway
Character: Shutherland
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
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One Night in Emergency
Title: One Night in Emergency
Released: January 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a series of strange people.
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Title: FlashForward
Character: Phillip
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: TV
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
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2081
Title: 2081
Character: George Bergeron
Released: May 29, 2009
Type: Movie
2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage.
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The Narnia Code
Title: The Narnia Code
Character: Narrator
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Millions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars have attempted to find the organizing key—the “secret code”—to the beloved series, but it has remained a mystery. Until now.
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Title: Castle
Character: Finn Rourke
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Title: Merlin
Character: Hengist
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: TV
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
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Title: Sons of Anarchy
Character: Father Kellan Ashby
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC’s familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegal arms business driven by the seduction of money, power, and blood.
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Title: The Colour of Magic
Character: Galder Weatherwax
Released: March 23, 2008
Type: TV
As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey and fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.
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Futureshock: Comet
Title: Futureshock: Comet
Character: Brenden
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Title: The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Character: Dawson
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
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The Last Legion
Title: The Last Legion
Character: Hrothgar
Released: April 19, 2007
Type: Movie
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
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Lives of the Saints
Title: Lives of the Saints
Character: Mr. Karva
Released: January 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Mr Karva runs a shady little empire in North London. We don't know exactly how he makes his money but we know it's probably not very nice. Mr Karva's stepson, Othello, has ambitions to take the old man's place; and Othello's fainthearted friend, Emilio, has ambitions of his own. This delicate balance of power is upset when Roadrunner finds a strange, sickly-looking 10 year old boy in the park. All his life, Roadrunner has been on the move - but when he looks into the child's eyes, he finds he can finally stop running. It becomes clear that the child can grant each character their own taste of heaven - the 'perfect, rosy future of your dreams'. The child never talks but transforms the world around him, working on the desire in each character's heart, whatever it may be.
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Free Jimmy
Title: Free Jimmy
Character: HudMaSpecs (voice)
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
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Half Light
Title: Half Light
Character: Finlay Murray
Released: January 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Character: Father Christmas
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Title: The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Character: James Brown
Released: October 29, 2005
Type: Movie
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Character: Mr. Scott
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie, also known as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, is a five-hour miniseries which was broadcast on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series. It was made in 2004. It was directed by David L. Cunningham.
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Troy
Title: Troy
Character: Glaucus
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.
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One Last Chance
Title: One Last Chance
Character: Big John
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Lambert
Released: February 26, 2004
Type: Movie
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
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Man Dancin'
Title: Man Dancin'
Character: Donnie McGlone
Released: February 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
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Solid Air
Title: Solid Air
Character: Finn
Released: August 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior. Discovering a lapsed compensation claim for asbestosis, Junior resolves to pursue the case, encountering the young, ambitious lawyer Nicola Blyth who tells him he must produce a witness to testify on his father's behalf. Beneath Junior's altruism lies an uncomfortable truth. In debt and on the run from wealthy businessman, John Doran, following a disastrous loss at the poker table, Junior's only hope is to get his hands on his father's settlement. But hope, like luck, is in short supply. As father and son set out to find the witness, suspicion turns to torment as Robert learns of his son's motives and the true cost of Junior's betrayal is revealed.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Character: Robert
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
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The Four Feathers
Title: The Four Feathers
Character: Col. Sutch
Released: September 8, 2002
Type: Movie
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Title: Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Character: Billy
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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All the Queen's Men
Title: All the Queen's Men
Character: Archie
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
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To End All Wars
Title: To End All Wars
Character: Col. Stuart McLean
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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Title: Celebrity Big Brother
Released: March 9, 2001
Type: TV
Celebrity Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run.
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Title: The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Character: McNab
Released: August 26, 2000
Type: Movie
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
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Honest
Title: Honest
Character: Tommy Chase
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
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Title: Rebus
Character: Morris Gerald Cafferty
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: TV
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.
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Title: Rebus
Character: Morris Cafferty
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: TV
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.
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Tales from the Madhouse
Title: Tales from the Madhouse
Character: The Centurion
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.
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One More Kiss
Title: One More Kiss
Character: Frank
Released: September 18, 1999
Type: Movie
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray runs a restaurant. He and Sarah grew up together and Sam hoped they'd grow old together. His world fell apart the day Sarah left and now she's back, standing on his doorstep and telling his wife she'd like to spend some time with him. Written by NybergerMeister
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Billy and Zorba
Title: Billy and Zorba
Character: Zorba
Released: August 22, 1999
Type: Movie
In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mom named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the city to live with him: more opportunities for her and for her son Billy.
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The Match
Title: The Match
Character: Billy Bailey
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
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Title: Badger
Released: July 11, 1999
Type: TV
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Sunset Heights
Title: Sunset Heights
Character: MacDonald
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley (Stephens)'s son is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the local preacher (Jim Norton). Taken to Sunset Heights, a druid's circle on a hill overlooking the city, the accused is summarily executed by the boy's father. However, when another child goes missing, it appears that they have killed the wrong man - or that the preacher has come back from the dead to wreak his revenge...
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Title: Cleopatra
Character: Agrippa
Released: May 23, 1999
Type: TV
Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.
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Babe: Pig in the City
Title: Babe: Pig in the City
Character: Thelonius (voice)
Released: November 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Malky Fraser
Released: July 28, 1997
Type: TV
Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft dodging, scheming private detective - as they get caught up with gangsters and romance in blitz torn London.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Jack 'Axeman' McKinley
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Cedric
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
The epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe and his battle against the evil Templar Bois-Guilbert. Caught between the rivalries and religious struggles are Ivanhoe's betrothed Rowena and the brave, beautiful Jewess healer Rebecca, who wins Ivanhoe's heart with her courage. This grand six-part adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's rousing adventure of the Middle Ages is set against the historical backdrop of a Britain straining under the corrupt rule of Prince John while Richard the Lionhearted fights in the Crusades.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mr. Weston
Released: August 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
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Trainspotting
Title: Trainspotting
Character: Renton'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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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Campbell
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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Title: Roughnecks
Character: Tom
Released: June 16, 1994
Type: TV
Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea.
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Sin Bin
Title: Sin Bin
Character: Jerry
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Matthew Chapman
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: The House of Eliott
Character: James Maxton
Released: August 31, 1991
Type: TV
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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The Fool
Title: The Fool
Character: Mr. Bowring
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Redruth
Released: January 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
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The Nightwatch
Title: The Nightwatch
Character: James Smithson
Released: November 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Dark and brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the details of a new mission, they decide to spend their free time in the sleazy bars and brothels. Over the course of the weekend it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Unknown to them their paths have all crossed before, and the deceit and violence of the past is about to become their own downfall.
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Stormy Monday
Title: Stormy Monday
Character: Tony
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.
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Codename: Kyril
Title: Codename: Kyril
Character: Bonham
Released: March 29, 1988
Type: Movie
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Tony
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: Casualty
Character: John Breckman
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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Biggles
Title: Biggles
Character: German Soldier
Released: May 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s......
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Highlander
Title: Highlander
Character: Angus MacLeod
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
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Title: Running Scared
Character: Detective Inspector McNeil
Released: January 15, 1986
Type: TV
Running Scared is a British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC 1 in 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and is set in Woolwich with the Woolwich Ferry featuring in a key scene. A gritty series, Running Scared deals with a teenage girl, Paula, whose life is put at risk when she uncovers evidence that could put a local criminal gang leader behind bars. The series is notable for its use of the then recently released Kate Bush pop song Running Up That Hill as its main theme tune.
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Title: Super Gran
Character: Mr. McBigg
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: TV
Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.
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Operation Julie
Title: Operation Julie
Character: Longfellow
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of £100M of LSD.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
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Title: Taggart
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: TV
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.
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Living Apart Together
Title: Living Apart Together
Character: Priest
Released: November 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Starring musician B.A. Robertson as Ritchie Hannah a singer/songwriter returning to his mediocre life in Glasgow after the death of a friend Living Apart Together remains an important record of a culturally significant time in the city of Glasgow. Ritchie s wife Evie (Barbara Kellerman), tired of the constant upheaval in her marriage, uses the opportunity to walk out, leaving him to care for their children. Ritchie goes in search of Evie with the help of his manager s assistant Alicia (Judi Trott), however, an attraction grows between the pair and as they widen their pursuit, it becomes apparent that Evie is not ready to return home. Featuring original music from satirical post-punk musician B.A Robertson and early screen appearances from Peter Capaldi (Local Hero) and John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory s Girl), Gormley s bittersweet take on relationships is a fresh and captivating insight into how our actions affect the people we love.
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The Nightmare Man
Title: The Nightmare Man
Character: Sergeant Carch
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...
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Title: The Nightmare Man
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: TV
The population of a small Scottish island is gripped with fear following a strange discovery and a series of savage murders. Adapted from David Wiltshire's 'Child of Vodyanoi'.
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Title: Hammer House of Horror
Character: Willis
Released: September 13, 1980
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
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Title: Take the High Road
Released: February 19, 1980
Type: TV
Take the High Road was a British soap opera produced by Scottish Television, set in the fictional village of Glendarroch, which started in February 1980 as an ITV daytime soap opera, and was dropped by the network in 1993, although various members of the ITV Network continued to screen the programme, while others had no interest in doing so. The programme has developed a cult following.
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Title: Minder
Character: Jock McLeish
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Thundercloud
Released: May 24, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Dick Barton: Special Agent
Character: Jock Anderson
Released: January 6, 1979
Type: TV
Period action adventure series. Dick Barton is demobbed after six years in the army and sets himself up as an adventurer helping people in need.
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Title: Kidnapped
Character: Beggar/Soldier
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: TV
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Glover
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Title: Survivors
Character: Lenny Carter
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: TV
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Det. Sgt. Davy Freeth
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Title: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Character: Loch
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.
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Title: Warship
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: TV
Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero.
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The Professional
Title: The Professional
Character: Sgt. Robbins
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer would seem to be the answer.
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The Stone Tape
Title: The Stone Tape
Character: Cliff Dow
Released: December 25, 1972
Type: Movie
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
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Young Winston
Title: Young Winston
Character: Officer on Train
Released: July 20, 1972
Type: Movie
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
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Doomwatch
Title: Doomwatch
Character: Bob Gillette
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
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The Duna Bull
Title: The Duna Bull
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of Scottish islanders have to figure out how to bring a new bull over from the mainland.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Inspector Williams
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Assault
Title: Assault
Character: Det. Sgt. Beale
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
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Title: UFO
Character: Lt. Anderson
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: TV
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.
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Sovereign's Company
Title: Sovereign's Company
Character: Senior Under Officer Patterson
Released: April 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
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The Virgin Soldiers
Title: The Virgin Soldiers
Character: Waller
Released: October 14, 1969
Type: Movie
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
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Battle of Britain
Title: Battle of Britain
Character: Jamie
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
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Title: Ransom for a Pretty Girl
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Character: Private Davidson
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: TV
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
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Can You Hear Me?
Title: Can You Hear Me?
Character: Johnny
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A supernatural romance set during World War I.
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Title: Fear
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children. At first, the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns out to be the start of something far more intimidating.
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The Morrigan
Title: The Morrigan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows an archaeologist who travels to Ireland to uncover a long-dead tomb. A threat is released and she will have to fight to keep her teenage daughter from falling under the control of The Morrigan, a vengeful "Pagan War Goddess."
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Title: The Choice
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
When the British Prime Minister’s husband is kidnapped and the visiting French President is blackmailed, the two political leaders both face unimaginable choices. Forced into a fierce rivalry where their political futures, and lives, might hang in the balance, can they work together to uncover the plot that threatens them both?
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Hotel Caledonia
Title: Hotel Caledonia
Character: William Pertwee
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Follows the journey of inconsequential loser, Norman Tickle, his best friend, and a bunch of backpackers to work the summer season at an isolated Scottish hotel and their horrific gastronomic encounters with the owners.
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Santa / Claws
Title: Santa / Claws
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.
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The Islander
Title: The Islander
Character: Dida
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man is haunted by visions of the future ever since he got struck by the lightning.
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The Last Redemption
Title: The Last Redemption
Character: Lord Goran
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a land of swords and sorcery, bandits break from their gang to protect a little girl, pitting them against their old friends and former leader who was once like a father to them.
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Title: Nightsleeper
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who’ve never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?
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Salvable
Title: Salvable
Character: Welly
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Sal 'The Bull' is a washed-up boxer on the brink of 40, fighting more than just his opponents. With a life of regrets and fading dreams, Sal’s chance at redemption comes knocking in the form of illegal boxing, introduced by the sudden return of his old friend Vince. Sal faces the ultimate dilemma: seize this shot at resurgence or preserve the bond with his daughter Molly.