Cal MacAninch

Cal MacAninch

Birthday: 1963-11-24

Place of Birth: Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography: Cal MacAninch is a Scottish actor, who is known for portraying the character of DI John Keenan in police drama HolbyBlue on BBC1 (from 2007 to 2008). Other notable appearances were his roles as Mr Thackeray in the ITV period drama, Mr Selfridge, and Henry Lang in Downton Abbey, but he has played many leading roles in British television and film over the last 30 years. MacAninch played Rowan Collins in Series 4 of the ITV drama series Wild at Heart. He returned to the show for its fifth series as a main cast member. He also played Tauren, a sorcerer in the BBC television series Merlin in the episode "To Kill the King". He starred in the 2001 BBC miniseries The Best of Both Worlds with Alice Evans. He appeared as Henry Lang, a valet, in the second series of Downton Abbey.

Movies

The Lost Son
The Lost Son

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best frie...

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Warriors
Warriors

If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying f...

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Slapper
Slapper

A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather tha...

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The Chestnut Soldier
The Chestnut Soldier

Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken to...

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The Point Men
The Point Men

Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli ...

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The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders

The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant...

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A Mind to Murder
A Mind to Murder

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of ...

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Speak Like a Child
Speak Like a Child

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the inten...

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Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One
Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One

Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster....

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The Visit
The Visit

IRA man Tommy McDaid is pulled back to Manchester 25 years after he helped plant a huge bomb that de...

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Little Bird
Little Bird

A film that searches the dilemma of a middle age couple Ellen and Michael Hall, who have lost their ...

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Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking

Gritty and powerful Screen One film that takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Lenny Henry pl...

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Dangerous Lady
Dangerous Lady

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mi...

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Doomsday
Doomsday

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousa...

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The Awakening
The Awakening

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys b...

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Splitting Heirs
Splitting Heirs

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom h...

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Best
Best

Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of ...

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Dear Frankie
Dear Frankie

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remembe...

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Nervous Energy
Nervous Energy

Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms n...

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Rag Tale
Rag Tale

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids....

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Calibre
Calibre

Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip th...

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Intrigo: Dear Agnes
Intrigo: Dear Agnes

What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another h...

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Jetsam
Jetsam

A young woman finds herself onto a desolate beach and tries to find out the how and why of her immed...

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Susan Hill's Ghost Story
Susan Hill's Ghost Story

An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate ...

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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter
Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter

Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the ...

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The Reckoning
The Reckoning

In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young wi...

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Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education

The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main...

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Nobody Has to Know
Nobody Has to Know

After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of I...

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Breathtaking
Breathtaking

A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder....

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The Punishment
The Punishment

A grief-stricken father hunts down the boy responsible for the events that led to his son's murder b...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

Fearless and unforgettably creepy. This high-concept production, filmed live at London’s Donmar Ware...

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Intrigo: Samaria
Intrigo: Samaria

Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike an...

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Lucky Star
Lucky Star

1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind...

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