Jake D'Arcy

Jake D'Arcy

Born: December 2, 1945
Died: May 30, 2015
in Chichester, West Sussex, England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jake D'Arcy is a Scottish actor best known for playing "Pete the Jakey" on Scottish comedy show Still Game.

D'Arcy first appeared in Rab C. Nesbitt and then he later appeared as Pete the Jakey on Still Game. His most recent appearance was on the Christmas special of British comedy show Outnumbered as Mack, a friend of Grampa.

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Movies for Jake D'Arcy...

What We Did on Our Holiday
Title: What We Did on Our Holiday
Character: Smokey
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...
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Title: Outnumbered
Character: Mack
Released: August 28, 2007
Type: TV
Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for Britain and an 11-year-old who is gearing up for his scary first day at secondary school.
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Title: Still Game
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: TV
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
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The Little Vampire
Title: The Little Vampire
Character: Farmer McClaughlin
Released: October 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.
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Beautiful Creatures
Title: Beautiful Creatures
Character: Train Guard
Released: August 23, 2000
Type: Movie
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
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Title: A Mug's Game
Released: January 18, 1996
Type: TV
Four-part series that studies the personal lives of folk in a remote Scottish fishing village that is coming to terms with rationalisation, and globalisation of its fishing industry.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Sawney Weir
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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Title: Hamish Macbeth
Character: Scott
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
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Chasing the Deer
Title: Chasing the Deer
Character: Tam
Released: December 16, 1994
Type: Movie
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
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Title: Takin' Over the Asylum
Character: Electrician
Released: September 27, 1994
Type: TV
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.
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Staggered
Title: Staggered
Character: Pilot
Released: July 8, 1994
Type: Movie
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
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The Bogie Man
Title: The Bogie Man
Character: Drunken Bum
Released: December 29, 1992
Type: Movie
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic book series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.
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Dreaming
Title: Dreaming
Released: March 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a gallery of heroes. But far from simply providing an escape from grim reality, his dreams become weapons to confront it. With appearances by Deacon Blue. Billy Connolly and Marianne Faithful
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A View of Harry Clark
Title: A View of Harry Clark
Character: Peter Taylor
Released: March 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?
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Title: Tutti Frutti
Character: Fud O'Donnell
Released: March 3, 1987
Type: TV
Tutti Frutti is a BBC Scotland six part drama series, transmitted in 1987 and written by John Byrne. It starred Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Maurice Roëves, Richard Wilson and Katy Murphy. It brought many of the cast to national prominence.
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Scab
Title: Scab
Character: Reg Briggs
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
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Title: City Lights
Character: Bruno Moffat
Released: October 14, 1986
Type: TV
Hapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.
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Heavenly Pursuits
Title: Heavenly Pursuits
Character: Wee Man at Bar
Released: July 11, 1986
Type: Movie
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Murphy
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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It Could Happen to Anybody
Title: It Could Happen to Anybody
Character: Det Con Newman
Released: August 14, 1984
Type: Movie
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
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The Silly Season
Title: The Silly Season
Character: Eddie
Released: February 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.
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Gregory's Girl
Title: Gregory's Girl
Character: Phil Menzies
Released: April 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
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Title: Minder
Character: McTaggart
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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A Sense of Freedom
Title: A Sense of Freedom
Character: Robbie
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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A Passage to England
Title: A Passage to England
Character: Mack
Released: December 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
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Just Another Saturday
Title: Just Another Saturday
Character: Jackie
Released: July 5, 1975
Type: Movie
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
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The Camerons
Title: The Camerons
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Three children on holiday uncover plot to hi-jack secret jet aircraft.