James Ellis
Birthday: 1931-03-15
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland
Biography: Legendary Northern Irish actor who came to prominence in the 1960s for his role of Bert Lynch in the BBC TV series Z Cars.
Movies
Conspiracy of Silence
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to ...
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The Long March
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protes...
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The Near Room
Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the to...
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The Glory Hole
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost....
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Priest
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face...
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High Rise Donkey
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time cro...
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A Coming to Terms for Billy
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'En...
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A Matter of Choice for Billy
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, an...
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Mark of the Devil
A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killin...
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Best
Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of ...
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Doctor Who: Battlefield
Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doc...
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No Surrender
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liv...
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Leapin' Leprechauns
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns....
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Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns
Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an Ame...
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Crossing the Floor
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservat...
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Shadow of a Gunman
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Sh...
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in ...
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Lorna
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to c...
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Resurrection Man
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one n...
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors....
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The Precious Blood
Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is ...
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Naming the Names
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes bac...
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