Frank Harper

Frank Harper

Born: January 1, 1962
in London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Frank Harper (born 1962) is a British actor and film producer. He is best known for his "Hard Man" roles, such as Billy Bright in The Football Factory (2004), Dog in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). He appears as a white nationalist in South West 9, and as the bank robber in Harry Enfield's film Kevin & Perry Go Large. He was featured in The Streets' music video "Fit But You Know It", and cast as real life villain Jack Whomes in Rise of the Foot Soldier. During his career Harper has also appeared on many British TV shows including The Bill, Doctors, Lovejoy and Waking the Dead. Harper is an ardent Millwall F.C. fan.[1] He has admitted to partaking in casual football hooliganism and was interviewed for Cass Pennants book "Terrace Legends"

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Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire
Title: Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire
Character: George
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
London crime boss Mick Roman is deathly ill, and time is running out to find a successor. With deceit, ambition and infighting on the rise, this Roman empire may be about to fall.
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Bury the Dogs
Title: Bury the Dogs
Character: Tosh
Released: December 4, 2023
Type: Movie
An initiatory drama that deals with the cracks that arise in childhood friendships, the vulnerability of youth and the fragility of parental figures.
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The Bystanders
Title: The Bystanders
Character: Joe
Released: October 16, 2023
Type: Movie
An off-the-wall comedy set in the world of the Bystanders - invisible immortals who watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
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Nemesis
Title: Nemesis
Character: Richard Morgan
Released: March 29, 2021
Type: Movie
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.
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Silent Night
Title: Silent Night
Character: Caddy
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
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Malcolm & the Magpies
Title: Malcolm & the Magpies
Character: Cigar Sid
Released: June 15, 2020
Type: Movie
A British comedy about a bunch of bungling but lovable bank robbers, Ox and Spud are released from prison after serving twenty years in prison, it is now time to recruit and re-form The Magpies! This film was finished off during the lockdown and released on youtube free for all to watch in the hope it will cheer people up, give them a giggle, and help forget the misery covid-19 has brought to 2020
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Silas Duggan
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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Berlin Job
Title: Berlin Job
Character: Mickey Mannock
Released: October 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine in rough seas. Set in London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the story races across Europe at breakneck speed as Micky and Ray attempt to stay one step ahead of the Police. Can they pull off a daring diamond heist in time to put things right and retire to a "legitimate" way of life?
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St George's Day
Title: St George's Day
Character: Mickey Mannock
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine in rough seas. Set in London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the story races across Europe at breakneck speed as Micky and Ray attempt to stay one step ahead of the Police. Can they pull off a daring diamond heist in time to put things right and retire to a "legitimate" way of life.
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Victim
Title: Victim
Character: Colin
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A young man's attempt to break out of a cycle of violence. When country-girl Tia comes to stay with her cousin in the city, little does she realise that her naivety will disturb the delicate balance of cousin Davina and her group of friends. Living the good life on a career of crime, Davina's friend Tyson struggles to be a parent to his teenage sister Nyla. Getting to know Tia allows Tyson to see a way out of his violent life. But Tia's blossoming romance is a consequence that Davina had not envisaged, and Davina begins to plot a terrible revenge.
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Billy
Title: Billy
Character: Colin
Released: July 1, 2011
Type: Movie
The character Billy is played out in two very different ways, this unique film follows Billy through various scenarios good and bad
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Screwed
Title: Screwed
Character: Deano
Released: June 3, 2011
Type: Movie
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.
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StreetDance 3D
Title: StreetDance 3D
Character: Fred
Released: May 19, 2010
Type: Movie
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
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Kung Fu Flid
Title: Kung Fu Flid
Character: Barry
Released: September 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Jimmy Loveit, born with shortened arms due to thalidomide, is a talented kick boxer despite his handicap. Ably coached by Ron, Jimmy is a formidable opponent for anyone in the ring. One night, whilst snuggling up with his wife and daughter, their apartment is attacked by two gangsters who've mistaken their flat for someone else's. With his wife injured and his daughter missing, Jimmy starts a one-man war against the crime boss who sent the hit men.
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Permanent Vacation
Title: Permanent Vacation
Character: Eric Bury
Released: October 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A camping trip results in some twisted family memories in this off-the-wall black comedy. Hoping for one last family vacation before his children leave the nest, laid-back dad Eric Bury (Frank Harper) takes his brood to a trailer park teeming with oddballs. The clan's plans for a relaxing holiday go down the drain as they encounter sex addicts, a sadistic cop (Michael Bowen), decapitated corpses, bloodthirsty fish and a sage (David Carradine).
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Rise of the Footsoldier
Title: Rise of the Footsoldier
Character: Jack Whomes
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties.
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Dolphins
Title: Dolphins
Character: Legend
Released: July 24, 2007
Type: Movie
High-octane romance set in the recognizable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as Boy Racer gangs uneasily coexist with the Indie scene.
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This Is England
Title: This Is England
Character: Lenny
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
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The Football Factory
Title: The Football Factory
Character: Billy Bright
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together.
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The Calcium Kid
Title: The Calcium Kid
Character: Clive Connelly
Released: April 30, 2004
Type: Movie
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world stage and announced as the replacement contender for the championship fight.
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The Last Minute
Title: The Last Minute
Character: Cabbie
Released: November 9, 2002
Type: Movie
The clock is ticking towards The Last Minute, but no one knows it. No one except Billy Byrne - young, cool and talented, he's the Next Big Thing. At least that's what the London glitterazzi are saying, on the streets, in the clubs, in the Business. But the glitterazzi turn out to be wrong and Billy Byrne is all over in a split second. His world detonates. His self-esteem splinters. Suddenly he's on a rollercoaster ride into the London underworld - a dangerous land of murderers, thieves and talent agents. (Copied from IMDB page)
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Club Le Monde
Title: Club Le Monde
Character: Danny
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
London, 1993: a wild range of clubbers get together to drink, drug, dance and waste the night away at one of city's most happening underground venues...Club Le Monde.
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Out of Control
Title: Out of Control
Character: Sam's Dad
Released: August 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.
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Bend It Like Beckham
Title: Bend It Like Beckham
Character: Alan Paxton
Released: April 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
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The Search for John Gissing
Title: The Search for John Gissing
Character: Dexter
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
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South West 9
Title: South West 9
Character: Douser
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
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Lucky Break
Title: Lucky Break
Character: John Toombes
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: John Tate
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
Title: Goodbye Charlie Bright
Character: Tommy's Dad
Released: May 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and Francis having fallen in love, friendships and loyalties are tested as the friends drift in their own directions.
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Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
Title: Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind
Character: DS Finch
Released: February 5, 2001
Type: Movie
While hiding his own rapidly deteriorating eyesight, a detective investigates the murder of a black youth leader.
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Shiner
Title: Shiner
Character: Jeff 'Stoney' Stone
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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Title: Other People's Children
Character: Matthew
Released: September 10, 2000
Type: TV
Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of how three women and two men deal with new marriages and the consequences of the new spouses or partners having to deal with their partner's children of different ages from previous marriages.
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
Title: Kevin & Perry Go Large
Character: Armed Robber
Released: April 20, 2000
Type: Movie
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.
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Title: Second Sight
Character: DS Finch
Released: January 9, 2000
Type: TV
Maverick cop DCI Ross Tanner finds out that he has a rare disease which is causing him to go blind.
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Tube Tales
Title: Tube Tales
Character: Station Guard (multiple segments)
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
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A Room for Romeo Brass
Title: A Room for Romeo Brass
Character: Joe Brass
Released: August 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
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Title: Boyz Unlimited
Character: Nigel Gacey
Released: February 5, 1999
Type: TV
A six part comedy series charting conman Nigel Gacey's attempt at creating a brand new boy band from scratch, starring James Corden
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Title: Sunburn
Character: Colin Daley
Released: January 16, 1999
Type: TV
Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Title: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Character: Dog
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
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TwentyFourSeven
Title: TwentyFourSeven
Character: Ronnie Marsh
Released: August 31, 1997
Type: Movie
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
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The Missing Postman
Title: The Missing Postman
Character: BBC Security Man
Released: March 28, 1997
Type: Movie
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.
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Title: Pie in the Sky
Character: Security Guard
Released: March 13, 1994
Type: TV
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Ronnie Smalls
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
Title: Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
Character: Brother's Minder
Released: November 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discovered they'd stumbled across a large stash of gold. But getting the gold away without getting caught is only the beginning of their troubles. Realizing the riches the gold represents is difficult, and honor among thieves may only be a myth.
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Tight Trousers
Title: Tight Trousers
Character: Gip
Released: July 10, 1990
Type: Movie
A young man who is going through a mid-twenties crisis is going to a fancy dress party dressed as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Billy
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
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For Queen & Country
Title: For Queen & Country
Character: Mickey
Released: May 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Harry Whymark
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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Remember Us
Title: Remember Us
Character: Steve
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Lucas Thompson is sentenced to community service, entailing him to deliver food parcels to the elderly where he finds himself on the doorstep of dementia sufferer; Arthur Miller.