Ian Bannen

Ian Bannen

Birthday: 1928-06-29

Place of Birth: Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Biography: Ian Bannen (29 June 1928 – 3 November 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.

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Braveheart
Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

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The Long Arm
The Long Arm

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl...

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Waking Ned
Waking Ned

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money....

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The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of th...

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Ring of Darkness
Ring of Darkness

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to re...

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Ghost Dad
Ghost Dad

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of...

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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

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Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...

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Damage
Damage

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse...

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The Watcher in the Woods
The Watcher in the Woods

After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tor...

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The Inglorious Bastards
The Inglorious Bastards

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset up...

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Speaking of the Devil
Speaking of the Devil

Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant ...

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The Hill
The Hill

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

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Too Late the Hero
Too Late the Hero

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...

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Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II....

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The Offence
The Offence

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester....

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Bite the Bullet
Bite the Bullet

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r...

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The MacKintosh Man
The MacKintosh Man

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be cau...

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Fright
Fright

Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their youn...

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Taliesin Jones
Taliesin Jones

Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite...

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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. ...

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Defence of the Realm
Defence of the Realm

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB ag...

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the ...

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From Beyond the Grave
From Beyond the Grave

Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "O...

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Arise and Go Now
Arise and Go Now

Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northe...

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The Courier
The Courier

When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery...

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Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Ultimate Fights from the Movies

In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix ...

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The Big Man
The Big Man

An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet....

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Private's Progress
Private's Progress

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t...

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Sweeney!
Sweeney!

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squ...

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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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Identikit
Identikit

A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist viol...

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Witch Story
Witch Story

A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inheri...

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George's Island
George's Island

After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island, ...

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Doomwatch
Doomwatch

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish ca...

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The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II....

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The Voyage
The Voyage

The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey ...

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The Fifteen Streets
The Fifteen Streets

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the ...

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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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Suspect
Suspect

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...

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To Walk with Lions
To Walk with Lions

Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. A...

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A French Mistress
A French Mistress

The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to ...

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Station Six-Sahara
Station Six-Sahara

A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts...

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Circles in a Forest
Circles in a Forest

Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the ...

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Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patien...

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Lock Up Your Daughters
Lock Up Your Daughters

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down....

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Penelope
Penelope

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay mu...

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Psyche 59
Psyche 59

An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind....

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Mister Moses
Mister Moses

A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception

Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspe...

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Miracle in Soho
Miracle in Soho

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, wit...

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Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure

Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

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Lamb
Lamb

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epilepti...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson...

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The Prodigal
The Prodigal

They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracl...

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Rotten to the Core
Rotten to the Core

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th...

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On Friday at Eleven
On Friday at Eleven

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck ...

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The Gamble
The Gamble

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him c...

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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother....

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Pool of London
Pool of London

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....

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Common Pursuit
Common Pursuit

Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as u...

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A Pin for the Butterfly
A Pin for the Butterfly

Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppr...

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Gandhi
Gandhi

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth mor...

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The Birthday Present
The Birthday Present

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatc...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and th...

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The Treaty
The Treaty

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, ...

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The Deserter
The Deserter

A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly...

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Gorky Park
Gorky Park

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but find...

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Something to Believe In
Something to Believe In

Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt...

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The Gamble
The Gamble

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him c...

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The Sailor from Gibraltar
The Sailor from Gibraltar

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who...

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Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya

Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has sp...

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The Lady and the Highwayman
The Lady and the Highwayman

During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in ...

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Johnny Belinda
Johnny Belinda

In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she i...

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Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead
Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead

A woman hears her fiancee's ghostly voice telling her to find him....

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Death in Deep Water
Death in Deep Water

A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface....

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She Didn't Say No!
She Didn't Say No!

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conserva...

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Dead Sea Reels
Dead Sea Reels

A young man struggling to cope with the death of his daughter has a strange encounter with a priest....

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Night Crossing
Night Crossing

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta...

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The Dark Avenger
The Dark Avenger

Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English arm...

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