Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson

Birthday: 1947-09-27

Place of Birth: Perthshire, Scotland, UK

Biography: Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero.

Movies

Star Wars
Star Wars

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over ...

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Local Hero
Local Hero

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build...

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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted...

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Enid
Enid

A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her ...

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Somnium
Somnium

Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an indus...

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Perfect Sense
Perfect Sense

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilli...

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Providence
Providence

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sle...

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The Wee Man
The Wee Man

The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris....

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Fried Crumbed Brains
Fried Crumbed Brains

After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childl...

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Broken
Broken

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences....

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No Holds Bard
No Holds Bard

Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the tr...

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The Chain
The Chain

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da...

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The Machine
The Machine

Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Pro...

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Breaking the Mould
Breaking the Mould

A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a gr...

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The Paradise Run
The Paradise Run

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromi...

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The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns th...

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Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, wh...

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Fearless Frank
Fearless Frank

The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy i...

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The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Lighthouse Stevensons

The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the b...

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One Way Out
One Way Out

James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce f...

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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
The Flipside of Dominick Hide

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980....

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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Di...

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Bitter Cherry
Bitter Cherry

Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an...

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Bejewelled
Bejewelled

An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a...

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The Thieving Headmistress
The Thieving Headmistress

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessi...

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Above Their Station
Above Their Station

One-off comedy special. On the mean streets of Vange in Essex, naive police community support office...

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A Royal Scandal
A Royal Scandal

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick....

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Holocaust 2000
Holocaust 2000

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to...

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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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The Zip
The Zip

A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?...

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The Black Death
The Black Death

The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human cata...

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The Real Hughie Green
The Real Hughie Green

TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green....

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Damero...

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Burns in the USA
Burns in the USA

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

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Born Kicking
Born Kicking

Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed ...

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Jumping Bean Bag
Jumping Bean Bag

At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, th...

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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier....

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A New Body at Last
A New Body at Last

The cast and crew discussing the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, including exclusive beh...

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Leonard
Leonard

Leonard is the victim of obsessive compulsive behaviour; meticulous and insular, his world is at hom...

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The Girl Who Walked Quickly
The Girl Who Walked Quickly

A man is kidnapped and brainwashed by political extremists. He is then sent on a mission....

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Love After Lunch
Love After Lunch

Miles Henderson has a few problems. His job, his marriage and his car are all falling apart at the s...

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