Ian McLean

Ian McLean

Born: December 7, 1887
Died: February 1, 1978
in Greenwich, London, England, UK
Ian McLean (7 December 1887 – 1978) was an English stage and film actor. He is sometimes credited as Ian Maclean. He played supporting roles in around thirty British films, frequently playing police officers.

Movies for Ian McLean...

There Was a Crooked Man...
Title: There Was a Crooked Man...
Character: Cavalry Man
Released: September 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
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The Story of Shirley Yorke
Title: The Story of Shirley Yorke
Character: Dr. Harris
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
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Calling Paul Temple
Title: Calling Paul Temple
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Det. Mason
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Martell
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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Here Comes the Sun
Title: Here Comes the Sun
Character: Counsel for the Prosecution
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
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Dreaming
Title: Dreaming
Character: British General
Released: November 28, 1944
Type: Movie
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
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The Shipbuilders
Title: The Shipbuilders
Character: Barrister
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Headline
Title: Headline
Character: Inspector Dodds
Released: November 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Dundas
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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Atlantic Ferry
Title: Atlantic Ferry
Character: Capt. Woodruff
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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Sailors Don't Care
Title: Sailors Don't Care
Character: First C.I.D. Man
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
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That’s The Ticket
Title: That’s The Ticket
Character: Hercule
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Sergeant Clinton
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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Murder Will Out
Title: Murder Will Out
Character: Inspector
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Title: The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
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Marigold
Title: Marigold
Character: James Paton
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
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Thank Evans
Title: Thank Evans
Released: October 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
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The Street Singer
Title: The Street Singer
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
Character: The Fire Raiser
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: McLeod
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.