Acting
Sean Scanlan
Born August 18, 1948 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died April 17, 2017 · aged 68
No biography available.
Known For
The Big Man · 1990The Big Man
★ 4.81990
MovieDrama
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
My Life So Far · 1999My Life So Far
★ 5.41999
MovieComedyDrama
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
The Near Room · 1997The Near Room
★ 5.01997
MovieDramaThriller
Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.
Whisky Galore · 2016Whisky Galore
★ 5.92016
MovieRomanceComedy
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Tumbledown · 1988Tumbledown
★ 5.71988
MovieTV MovieDrama
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
A Sense of Freedom · 1985A Sense of Freedom
★ 6.51985
MovieCrimeDrama
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
Kim · 1984Kim
★ 8.01984
MovieDramaAdventure
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
The Ebb-Tide · 1998The Ebb-Tide
★ 7.01998
MovieTV MovieAdventure
A down-on-his-luck sea captain accepts an assignment on a rickety boat with a mysterious cargo and a questionable crew. As disaster befalls disaster, the crew finds itself on an uncharted island with a mad ex-sea captain who lives with a mute woman who threatens to kill them all.
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