John Cairney

John Cairney

Birthday: 1930-02-16

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography: John Cairney (16 February 1930 – 6 September 2023) was a Scottish stage, film and television actor who found fame through his one-man shows on Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Service, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William McGonagall.

Movies

A Study in Terror
A Study in Terror

When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few d...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

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Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to c...

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The Devil-Ship Pirates
The Devil-Ship Pirates

A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into ...

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The Flesh and the Fiends
The Flesh and the Fiends

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the hum...

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Ill Met by Moonlight
Ill Met by Moonlight

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle...

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Spaceflight IC-1
Spaceflight IC-1

In the year 2015, a spaceship, the IC-1, travels through outer space looking for a suitable planet t...

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Operation Bullshine
Operation Bullshine

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is fille...

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Windom's Way
Windom's Way

A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marri...

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Marriage of Convenience
Marriage of Convenience

A young woman going to her wedding is waiting for her fiancée, a hood in custody, who is allowed by ...

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The Great Mill Race
The Great Mill Race

A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment....

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Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. ...

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Silent Mouse
Silent Mouse

On Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria the Oberndorf organ broke down. The assistant priest writes a car...

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Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and ...

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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that m...

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Victim
Victim

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...

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Sporting Chance
Sporting Chance

Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of...

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Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 1

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embitter...

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Memory & Desire
Memory & Desire

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapprovi...

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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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