Francis Magee

Francis Magee

Born: June 7, 1959
in Dublin, Ireland
Francis Magee (born 7 June 1959) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Liam Tyler in British soap opera EastEnders from 1993 to 1995. He has also appeared in numerous television shows and feature films, including Sahara (2005), Layer Cake (2004) and The Calling (2000). He played the part of Ordgar, the Housecarl who led the Crowhurst contingent, in 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth (2009), a reconstruction of the year of the three battles from the English perspective.

He was raised in Ireland and on the Isle of Man. He spent eight years as a fisherman before becoming an actor and has also been a member of several music groups including Namoza - who released four singles and an album - and Disco D'Oro.

He studied acting at the Poor School at London's Kings Cross.

Movies for Francis Magee...

The Damned
Title: The Damned
Released: June 6, 2024
Type: Movie
A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.
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Kiss of the Con Queen
Title: Kiss of the Con Queen
Character: Cillian Donahill
Released: April 27, 2024
Type: Movie
A struggling actor thinks he’s on the verge of success when he’s contacted by Hollywood producers for a huge role in a blockbuster film. But when he’s sent to shoot in Jakarta, Indonesia, nothing goes as planned and he must uncover the truth – that he’s caught in the trap of the Con Queen of Hollywood, a master con-artist executing a prolific global scam on the entertainment industry.
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Title: Then You Run
Character: Turi
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: TV
A close-knit group of rebellious London teenagers are on a getaway in Rotterdam. But after the estranged father of Tara is discovered dead, they find themselves on the run across Europe with three kilos of heroin and a host of deadly criminals snapping at their heels.
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My House
Title: My House
Character: Don
Released: March 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Carla lives life locked inside her house with her kind but tyrannical father. When their isolation is interrupted by a mysterious stranger, Carla questions the reasons for her family's withdrawal from the outside world and discovers dark secrets that redefine their existence.
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Title: Desperate Measures
Character: Mal
Released: December 5, 2022
Type: TV
Rowan's life spirals when Finn is coerced into a botched drug deal by a local gang. With Finn's life on the line and a violent gang leader encroaching on her life, Rowan is faced with recouping the money that Finn lost.
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Title: Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Character: Talbot
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.
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As a Prelude to Fear
Title: As a Prelude to Fear
Character: Detective Barnbrook
Released: March 22, 2022
Type: Movie
When a young cellist called Eve Taylor gets kidnapped and imprisoned in a dungeon-like basement, Police Detective Barnbrooke believes it is the work of the notorious psychopath the media has named "The Pied Piper". But having failed to stop him in over fourteen years and with three other girls missing-presumed dead, Police Detective Barnbrooke knows all too well that if he can’t pin down his only suspect this time, that Eve will find the same fate as the other Pied Piper Victims. Knowing the identity of the Pied Piper is one thing, but proving it in time is a different deadlier story.
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Title: The Tourist
Character: Frank McDonnell
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
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Title: Kin
Character: Bren Kinsella
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Title: Zack Snyder's Justice League
Character: Ancient King of Men
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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The Tide
Title: The Tide
Character: Skipper
Released: March 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy and neglect. When tragedy threatens her future, the crew strive to define not only themselves but their way of life.
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Title: White Lines
Character: Clint Collins
Released: May 15, 2020
Type: TV
Zoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path.
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Title: The Witcher
Character: Yurga
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: TV
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
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Extinction
Title: Extinction
Released: September 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A political satire about climate change. Focused on the protest group Extinction Rebellion.
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Title: Brassic
Character: Big Joe Blane
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: TV
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
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The Dig
Title: The Dig
Character: Murphy
Released: April 26, 2019
Type: Movie
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. With no memory of the murder, Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of Sean is to help him dig.
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Title: Death and Nightingales
Character: Mickey Dolphin
Released: November 28, 2018
Type: TV
Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago.
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Winterlong
Title: Winterlong
Character: Francis
Released: June 30, 2018
Type: Movie
When his estranged wife deposits his teenage son Julian at the doorstep of his remote caravan home, solitary (though charming) poacher Francis must amend his ways, take on new responsibilities and engage with the world. But just as the two begin to bond, Julian takes a friend into the woods where an accident occurs that puts them under the authorities’ spotlight. They must make a decision that will forever change their lives.
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I Made This For You
Title: I Made This For You
Character: Dad
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A man receives a documentary made about his life, from a worried friend.
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Justice League
Title: Justice League
Character: Ancient King of Men
Released: November 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
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Bless Me Father
Title: Bless Me Father
Character: Michael
Released: November 11, 2017
Type: Movie
In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
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Title: GameFace
Character: Dad
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: TV
Marcella is an aspiring actress recovering from a relationship break up. Despite her optimistic attempts, and with help from her friends, therapist and driving instructor, she is unable to get her life back on track.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Lester Nowicki
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: Jav Mefran
Released: December 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Title: Witless
Character: Willy Whelan
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: TV
Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat Swindon - and all before they can so much as collect their toothbrushes. Staying undercover doesn’t prove easy…
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Title: The Coroner
Character: George James
Released: November 16, 2015
Type: TV
High-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.
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Title: The Frankenstein Chronicles
Character: Spence
Released: November 11, 2015
Type: TV
Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
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Title: The Bastard Executioner
Character: Absolon
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
A blood-soaked, medieval epic that tells the story of Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner. Set in northern Wales during a time rife with rebellion and political upheaval, Wilkin must walk a tight rope between protecting his true identity while also serving a mysterious destiny. Guided by Annora, a mystical healer whose seeming omniscience keeps Wilkin under her sway; manipulated by Milus Corbett, a devious Chamberlain with grand political aspirations; and driven by a deepening connection with the Baroness Lady Love, Wilkin struggles to navigate political, emotional and supernal pitfalls in his quest to understand his greater purpose.
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Title: Casanova
Character: Balbi
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: TV
Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity... and trouble. Part of Amazon's fall 2015 pilot season. Currently only the pilot has been made.
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Casanova
Title: Casanova
Character: Balbi
Released: August 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behind him. But old habits die hard, and temptation is everywhere as Casanova finds a wealth of new opportunity and trouble.
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Title: Humans
Character: Tex
Released: June 14, 2015
Type: TV
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
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Good People
Title: Good People
Character: Ben Tuttrie
Released: August 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
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Title: Outlander
Character: Crenshaw
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Jimmy's Hall
Title: Jimmy's Hall
Character: Mossie
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
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Blood Cells
Title: Blood Cells
Character: Cormac
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: Movie
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
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Glory Days
Title: Glory Days
Character: Jake Murphy
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Twenty years after an acrimonious break-up, rock band "The Spiders" are asked to re-form as the subject of a Reality Show. However, the band's original producer and songwriter is now living in Thailand, forcing the four remaining members to abandon their mundane lives, to once more pursue their quest for "Glory Days".
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Title: The Musketeers
Character: Hubert
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.
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House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra
Title: House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra
Character: Victor Rodenmaar Jr.
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
The students of Anubis House are on the eve of their graduation when they encounter a new group of underclassmen and a mysterious stone that leads them on a quest to save the world from evil.
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Title: WPC 56
Character: Brendan McCormack
Released: March 18, 2013
Type: TV
Drama following WPC Gina Dawson, the first Woman Police Constable to join Brinford Constabulary, a fictional police force in the West Midlands, in 1956. The show focuses on WPC Gina Dawson's struggle to gain acceptance in the male-dominated police station whilst having to deal with the sexist attitudes that were commonplace at the time.
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Title: The Bible
Character: Saul
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Davies
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Parn Heidekker
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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If You Have No Place to Cry
Title: If You Have No Place to Cry
Character: Luis
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
A group of fishermen decide to initiate their youngest one through a different kind of storytelling - telling of an obese woman who will guide him through his sexuality.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Stevie Smith
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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Title: The Fades
Character: Dr. Tremlett
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.
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Title: Vera
Character: Benny
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Yoren
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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Title: Anubis Unlocked
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2011
Type: TV
A behind the scenes look at Nickelodeon's House Of Anubis and it's secrets, presented by the stars of the show.
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Title: Zen
Character: Giulio / Avel Vasko
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: TV
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.
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Title: House of Anubis
Character: Victor Rodenmaar Jr.
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: TV
Strange things are happening at an English boarding school called House of Anubis. Popular student Joy goes missing, the school's cranky caretaker has a creepy stuffed crow and the school's attic may be haunted. When recent American transplant Nina gets thrust into the school during this time, she decides to investigate along with her new friend, Fabian, and housemates.
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Amphibious 3D
Title: Amphibious 3D
Character: Jimmy Kudrow
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...
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Brighton Rock
Title: Brighton Rock
Character: Pavement Photographer
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Worried About the Boy
Title: Worried About the Boy
Character: Jerry O'Dowd
Released: May 16, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk. Through Kirk George meets the handsome drummer Jon Moss, on whom he develops a crush, but sacked by the Blitz and spurned by Kirk, George turns to Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren to further his music career. George's spell with McLaren's group Bow Wow Wow is short but fan Mikey North is impressed and asks George to sing in a group he is forming, where George again meets Jon. They will have an affair and the group will become the very successful Culture Club. Four years later, however, hounded by the tabloid press amid stories of his drug addiction, an unhappy George turns to Jon for advice on his future.
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Cemetery Junction
Title: Cemetery Junction
Character: Mr. Pearson
Released: April 14, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
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Title: Misfits
Character: Dan
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: TV
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
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Perrier's Bounty
Title: Perrier's Bounty
Character: Hank
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
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The Last Breath
Title: The Last Breath
Character: Paul Kelvin
Released: June 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Whilst on a family scuba diving trip the Kelvin family surface to find that the world's oxygen supply has suddenly dissipated. With their tanks running low they embark on a race against time to reach the nearby dive hut.
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Title: 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
Character: Ordgar
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is remagined, not from the saddles of kings and conquerors, but through the eyes of the ordinary men who fought on their behalf.
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London River
Title: London River
Character: Inspecteur anglais
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
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The Crew
Title: The Crew
Character: Dermot
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
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Title: Inspector George Gently
Character: Chief Constable Lilley
Released: April 8, 2008
Type: TV
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
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Title: City of Vice
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: TV
In the 1750s London’s perilous streets were run by armed gangs, corrupt night watchmen and thief takers. Then two Westminster magistrates, novelist Henry Fielding and his brother, John, obtained a grant from Parliament allowing them to bring some law and order to the crime-ridden boroughs of Central London.
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A Harlot's Progress
Title: A Harlot's Progress
Character: James Dalton
Released: November 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: Fuse Cutter
Released: April 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
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Layer Cake
Title: Layer Cake
Character: Paul
Released: September 30, 2004
Type: Movie
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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Title: Hustle
Character: Journalist
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Holy Cross
Title: Holy Cross
Character: Flag Man
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.
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Title: Peep Show
Character: Russell
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: TV
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Sgt. Powell
Released: August 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a public servant moonlighting as a waitress at a party thrown by Greg for he and his wife's wedding anniversary. Marcey sets about organizing the slightly neurotic Greg in his attempts to cover up the accident.
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Title: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Character: Algar, Foreman
Released: May 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Alex Heath
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Buried
Character: Ronaldo
Released: January 14, 2003
Type: TV
Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his family from a violent criminal. Critically well-received, the programme won the Best Drama Series category at the British Academy Television Awards in 2004.
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Butterfly Man
Title: Butterfly Man
Character: Joey
Released: December 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Adventure romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.
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Lenny Blue
Title: Lenny Blue
Character: Connor
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds that he is hated by his colleagues, who have branded him a grass. Meanwhile, when a friend of his Lenny's son dies during a heroin-related overdose, a drug-related gang war breaks out, and Lenny seizes his opportunity to re-ignite his feud with drug trafficker Barry Hindes. Obsessed with bring Hindes to justice, Lenny ignores the advice of his colleagues as he sees a chance for vengeance.
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Title: Stranded
Character: Pickles
Released: June 15, 2002
Type: TV
The Robinson family set sail for a new life in America. After only a short time at sea, they are caught in a terrible, relentless storm that shatters their ship and they find themselves on the sandy beach of a deserted tropical island.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Pickles
Released: January 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Gordon Christie
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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The Bombmaker
Title: The Bombmaker
Character: O'Keefe
Released: April 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Ten years later, her blissful home life shattered when her daughter, Katie, is abducted from her bedroom in the dead of night. Andrea later discovers a ransom note, instructing her to leave her husband Martin and fly to London by herself. It also states that if the police are contacted, she and Martin will never see Katie again. In the hope of being reunited with Katie, Andrea obeys orders and follows instructions to meet with the kidnappers. Back in Dublin, Martin is powerless to help and becomes frantic with worry when he learns from Andrea that no ransom demand has been made, and that the kidnappers' request is something much more dangerous.
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Title: In Deep
Character: Ronnie Sharkey
Released: February 19, 2001
Type: TV
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
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The Calling
Title: The Calling
Character: Carmac
Released: December 21, 2000
Type: Movie
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist
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Undertaker's Paradise
Title: Undertaker's Paradise
Released: June 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Black comedy about a young undertaker, starting his own firm in a seaside resort.
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Don Quixote
Title: Don Quixote
Character: Ginisella de Parapille
Released: April 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a knight named Don Quixote de La Mancha, decides to go on imaginary adventures along with his friend, the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who becomes his squire. On their journeys, they rescue dames in distress in honorable acts and fight giants among other perils, with Don longing to be with the love of his life, lady Dulcinea, and Sancho waiting to be rewarded with an island where he's about to become a governor.
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Britannic
Title: Britannic
Character: Reilly
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: Movie
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war, an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan), embarks the Britannic in search of a German spy believed to be on board to sabotage the ship. Posing as a governess, the undercover agent finds herself falling in love with the ship's chaplain (Edward Atterton). In a stunning discovery, the lovers suddenly find themselves enemies of war. And when a massive explosion deals a deathblow to the ship, their battle becomes one for their own survival. With a dynamic, international cast and a story line that hosts a chilling tale of espionage, politics and romance, Britannic brings one of history's most devastating events to riveting, new life.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Able Seaman
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, their estate manager, the men advanced into battle, were enveloped in a strange mist and never seen again.
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Title: Bad Girls
Character: Rob Skelton
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
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Still Crazy
Title: Still Crazy
Character: Hockney
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
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Written in Blood
Title: Written in Blood
Released: June 2, 1998
Type: Movie
A best selling author finds his horror novels coming to life.
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Title: Where the Heart Is
Character: Joe Bevan
Released: April 6, 1997
Type: TV
Where the Heart Is is a British television family drama series set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite. It focuses on the professional and personal lives of the district nurses who work in the town.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Smudgepot
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: Moving Story
Character: Scurve
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: TV
Comedy drama centred around a group of removal men, and their mishaps as they move the contents of people's houses to their new homes. A spin-off by Jack Rosenthal from his film The Chain (1984).
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Title: Time After Time
Character: Villian
Released: March 18, 1994
Type: TV
Kenny Conway is a petty criminal from a family of petty criminals, who, after a recent spell in prison, has decided to go straight.
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Title: 99-1
Character: Balaclava
Released: January 5, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Rod Bainbridge
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Stannard
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Ken Rawson
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: Casualty
Character: Norris
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.