David O'Hara

David O'Hara

Born: July 9, 1965
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
David Patrick O'Hara (born 9 July 1965) is a Scottish stage and character actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he is best known to audiences for his numerous supporting roles in high-profile films; including Irishman Stephen in Braveheart, dimwitted mobster Fitzy in The Departed, hitman Mr. X in Wanted, and Albert Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. He portrayed Det. Danny 'Mac' McGregor on The District, and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey on The Tudors.

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Title: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Released: August 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, embark on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Title: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Released: June 26, 2024
Type: Movie
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, embark on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
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Deus
Title: Deus
Character: Ulph
Released: November 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A mysterious black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Achilles is sent to investigate. After the bedraggled six-person crew wake from eight months hibernation, the Sphere is transmitting a single word in every Earth language ever known - Deus.
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The Sparrow
Title: The Sparrow
Character: Larry
Released: July 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of forgiveness.
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Stan the Man
Title: Stan the Man
Character: Old Timer
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Stan Mann, a new money multi-millionaire, whose life consists of ladies, gambling and booze, lives at a 5-star hotel where the staff tends to his every need. Known as "Stan the Man" for his extreme generosity, he gets mixed up in a casino gambling scheme with Russian Mobsters and in one fateful bet, Stan loses everything. Planning to drown his sorrows in a bottle, Stan is critically wounded in a liquor store robbery, where he takes the bullet intended for the store clerk. During a near-death experience in the ER, a slightly resentful Angel gives Stan 30 days to change his ways and redeem himself, and find his one true love.
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The Professor and the Madman
Title: The Professor and the Madman
Character: Church
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Cold Pursuit
Title: Cold Pursuit
Character: Gallum 'Sly' Ferrante
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
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Dirt Road To Lafayette
Title: Dirt Road To Lafayette
Character: Tom
Released: June 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.
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In Extremis
Title: In Extremis
Character: Alex
Released: June 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Alex is a man with everything – the well-paid executive job, the impressive house in the country and the beautiful wife and child. When he inexplicably decides to leave work early one Friday nothing will ever be the same again. Within hours of his return a cataclysmic storm threatens to destroy everything around them.
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The Messenger
Title: The Messenger
Character: DCI Keane
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: Movie
The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he’s desperate to say one last goodbye, Jack finds himself getting closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark’s message. Discovering hidden secrets and lies finally pushes the fragile Jack over the edge but there is hope when his estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch. Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he confronts the truth about the death of his father.
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Title: Gotham
Character: Reggie Payne
Released: September 22, 2014
Type: TV
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
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Reach Me
Title: Reach Me
Character: Dominic
Released: March 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Alistair Fitz
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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The Groundsman
Title: The Groundsman
Character: Keith
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A Scottish football groundsman discovers the club he's been a part of for thirty years is going out of business.
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Best Laid Plans
Title: Best Laid Plans
Character: Curtis
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Jim Church
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
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Cowboys & Aliens
Title: Cowboys & Aliens
Character: Pat Dolan
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
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Golf in the Kingdom
Title: Golf in the Kingdom
Character: Shivas Irons
Released: July 28, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He meets a spirited pro who teaches him about golf and life, and how the two are beautifully intertwined.
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Whole Lotta Sole
Title: Whole Lotta Sole
Character: Mad Dog Flynn
Released: April 21, 2011
Type: Movie
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character: Albert Runcorn
Released: November 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
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Title: Luther
Character: DSU George Stark
Released: May 4, 2010
Type: TV
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
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The Kid
Title: The Kid
Character: Terry
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.
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Attack on Darfur
Title: Attack on Darfur
Character: Freddie Smith
Released: November 6, 2009
Type: Movie
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
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Jack Said
Title: Jack Said
Character: The Boss
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Some journeys are measured by what you sacrifice to get there
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Wanted
Title: Wanted
Character: Mr. X
Released: June 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father - who Wesley never knew - belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.
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Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Character: Michael Canaris
Released: March 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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Damage
Title: Damage
Character: John Ward
Released: June 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his wife Michelle, a successful estate agent and their fashion model daughter, Emma's 21st birthday party at the family home should be a night to remember. That night however, a rape at the party shatters their seemingly perfect lives. With the key suspect released on bail, and dark family secrets coming to the fore, Emma's life begins to free-fall. Slowly, having made radical changes to her life, Emma builds towards recovery - until a chance meeting with her rapist bolsters her conviction that she'll need to confront him in court before she can get on with her life.
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Title: The Tudors
Character: Henry Howard
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
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The Departed
Title: The Departed
Character: Fitzy
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
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Club Soda
Title: Club Soda
Character: Man at Bar #2
Released: September 22, 2006
Type: Movie
A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes until a spiritual guide steps in and sets his conscience in motion.
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Tristan & Isolde
Title: Tristan & Isolde
Character: Donnchadh
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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Hotel Rwanda
Title: Hotel Rwanda
Character: David
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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Stander
Title: Stander
Character: Allan Heyl
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Den of Lions
Title: Den of Lions
Character: Ferko Kurchina
Released: May 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.
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Title: The Commander
Released: February 16, 2003
Type: TV
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
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Made
Title: Made
Character: The Welshman
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
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Crossfire Trail
Title: Crossfire Trail
Character: Rock Mullaney
Released: January 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.
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Donovan Quick
Title: Donovan Quick
Character: Clive
Released: December 28, 2000
Type: Movie
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan suggests starting their own bus line. They do, much to the consternation of local officials.
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Title: The District
Character: Det. Danny 'Mac' MacGregor
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: TV
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.
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Jesus
Title: Jesus
Character: John The Baptist
Released: December 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
Title: Janice Beard 45 WPM
Character: O'Brien
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
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The Match
Title: The Match
Character: Mechanic
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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Fever
Title: Fever
Character: Will
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: Movie
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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The Matchmaker
Title: The Matchmaker
Character: Sean Kelly
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
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The Slab Boys
Title: The Slab Boys
Character: Terry Skinnedar
Released: August 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Bill Sikes
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder
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The Near Room
Title: The Near Room
Character: Harris Hill
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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The Devil's Own
Title: The Devil's Own
Character: Martin MacDuf
Released: March 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Frank Higgins
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Stephen, Irish Fighter
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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Open Fire
Title: Open Fire
Character: Armed Robber
Released: November 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.
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Title: The Tales of Para Handy
Character: Robert Grant
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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Grushko
Title: Grushko
Character: Lev
Released: March 24, 1994
Type: Movie
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
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Maria's Child
Title: Maria's Child
Character: Michael
Released: March 28, 1993
Type: Movie
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
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Title: Full Stretch
Released: January 5, 1993
Type: TV
Comedy drama series about an ex footballer's limo service business
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The Bridge
Title: The Bridge
Character: Philip Wilson Steer
Released: January 10, 1992
Type: Movie
When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
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Title: Chimera
Released: July 7, 1991
Type: TV
A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: DS Rankine
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Fellow Traveller
Title: Fellow Traveller
Character: Ronnie Wilson
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
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Resurrected
Title: Resurrected
Character: Male Nurse
Released: March 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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Title: The Monocled Mutineer
Released: August 31, 1986
Type: TV
The Monocled Mutineer TV series follows the rebellion that took place at the notorious Etaples Training Camp in northern France on the eve of "The Battle of Passchendaele" in 1917. After the mutiny, the dashing Percy Toplis takes flight, dressed as a British officer, soon to embark on a love affair with beautiful young widow, Dorothy. A solder in the First World War, the real Percy Toplis was a rake, rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This controversial, acclaimed 1986 four-part BBC dramatisation of high romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution was adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.
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Link
Title: Link
Character: Tom
Released: February 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
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Comfort and Joy
Title: Comfort and Joy
Character: Engineer
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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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.