Acting

George Rossi

Born September 28, 1961 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Died January 5, 2022 · aged 60

George Rossi (born 28 September 1960 in Glasgow) was a Scottish actor, best known for playing Detective Constable Duncan Lennox in The Bill from 1998 to 2003. Rossi was of Italian descent, his parents originating from Valvori, a frazione of Vallerotonda in Lazio, Italy. He died January 5th 2022 from pancreatic cancer.

Known For

In Love and War

In Love and War · 1996

In Love and War

MovieDramaRomance

After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.

Roseanna's Grave

Roseanna's Grave · 1997

Roseanna's Grave

MovieComedyRomance

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle · 1990

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

MovieComedyHorror

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

The Big Man

The Big Man · 1990

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

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup · 2006

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

MovieTV MovieDrama

The fictional story about the little dog that discovered the FIFA World Cup Trophy after it was stolen in 1966.

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy · 1984

Comfort and Joy

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

Ultimate Fights from the Movies · 2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

MovieDocumentaryAction

In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire · 1985

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

MovieWesternComedy

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.

Filmography

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In Love and War

In Love and War · 1996

In Love and War

MovieDramaRomance

After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.

Triage Medic

Roseanna's Grave

Roseanna's Grave · 1997

Roseanna's Grave

MovieComedyRomance

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

Sergeant Baggio

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle · 1990

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

MovieComedyHorror

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

Chopper

The Big Man

The Big Man · 1990

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

Eddie

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup · 2006

Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup

MovieTV MovieDrama

The fictional story about the little dog that discovered the FIFA World Cup Trophy after it was stolen in 1966.

McBrayne

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy · 1984

Comfort and Joy

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Bruno

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

Ultimate Fights from the Movies · 2002

Ultimate Fights from the Movies

MovieDocumentaryAction

In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.

Eddie (Crossing the Line) (archive footage)

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire · 1985

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

MovieWesternComedy

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.

Staggered

Staggered · 1994

Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?

Waiter

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future · 1985

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

MovieComedyScience Fiction

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Mahler

The Chain

The Chain · 1984

MovieComedyDrama

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

3rd Removal Man

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy · 1992

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy

MovieWesternComedy

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy is a very funny spaghetti western-Peckinpah-Leone pastiche that sees Michael Elphick's charlatan elixir seller, Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes as the notorious and the not so notorious Irish bounty hunters all in pursuit of Kid Divine (Jesse Birdsall) a baby faced killer with a $25,000 price tag on his head.

Director

Wild Romance

Wild Romance · 2006

MovieDramaMusic

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music.

Bruce McFadden

RPM

MovieActionThriller

A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

Zantos

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot · 1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot

SeriesCrimeDrama

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Zeropoulos

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Giovanni Fachetti

The Bill

The Bill · 1984

SeriesCrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

D.C. Lennox

Hustle

SeriesComedyCrime

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Marco

Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution · 1997

Trial & Retribution

SeriesCrimeDrama

Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police detectives in England as they investigate crimes and the trials that come about as a result.

Donaldson

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon · 2006

SeriesDramaComedy

Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.

Lenny

The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective · 1986

The Singing Detective

SeriesDramaMystery

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Second Mysterious Man

Roughnecks

Roughnecks · 1994

SeriesComedyDrama

Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea.

Kevin