Johnny Harris
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Biography: Johnny Harris first burst onto our screens in 2006 in the highly acclaimed British film London to Brighton. The film was voted into Time Out Magazine’s ‘100 Greatest British Films of All Time’ and celebrated British director Shane Meadows said of Harris’ performance in the film: “It’s an incredibly bold and massively powerful performance, the best I’ve seen on celluloid for a long time.” He went on to star in Shane Meadows cult television series This Is England ’86 receiving BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award nominations for his performance. The final episode of This is England ‘86 was recently named: ‘The Greatest TV Episode of All Time’ by The Independent Newspaper. In 2017, Johnny made his debut as a screenwriter with the highly acclaimed feature film, Jawbone. Harris also starred in and co-produced the movie. He received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Outstanding Debut, two BIFA Film Award nominations for his performance in the leading role, and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay. Song-writing icon Paul Weller composed and recorded the soundtrack for Jawbone (his first) and in October 2018, Johnny made his debut behind the camera, directing music videos for Paul’s hit singles, 'Gravity', and 'I Woke Up'. He has starred in film and TV hits including Without Sin, Great Expectations, Jawbone, A Christmas Carol, The Salisbury Poisonings, This is England 86-90, Snow White and the Huntsman, Fortitude, Troy Fall of a City, Medici, Monsters: Dark Continent, From Darkness, Welcome to the Punch, and Jack Thorne’s BAFTA Award-winning TV show The Fades. Johnny’s most recent work includes playing the iconic role of Magwitch in the BBC/FOX/Disney TV adaptation of Great Expectations, alongside Olivia Colman. The show was exec-produced by Tom Hardy and Sir Ridley Scott. He also co-starred alongside, Vicky McClure in ITV’s hit new drama series, Without Sin. Most recently he starred in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, alongside Ewan McGregor... an 8 part series based on Amor Towles internationally Best-Selling novel for Showtime and Paramount UK. He is current filming 'Bladerunner 2099' alongside Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. The show is Exec-Produced by Sir Ridley Scott for Amazon.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, UK
Birthday: January 01, 1974
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Gender: Male
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Gangster No. 1
Overview: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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London to Brighton
Overview: It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son finds his father and wants answers. Derek – Kelly's pimp – needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Daylight Robbery
Overview: Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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A House in Jerusalem
Overview: Mourning her mother’s death and struggling to adjust to her new life in Israel, a young girl bonds with the lonely spirit of a Palestinian child.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-13
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Clapham Junction
Overview: Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-22
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Overview: A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Welcome to the Punch
Overview: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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Snow White and the Huntsman
Overview: After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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The Last Days on Mars
Overview: On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-11
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It Was an Accident
Overview: An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-27
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Dorian Gray
Overview: Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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Monsters: Dark Continent
Overview: Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.
Genres: Thriller Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Overview: A travelling theatre company has more to it than meets the eye.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Atonement
Overview: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Huge
Overview: A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-18
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Overview: Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-22
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Jawbone
Overview: A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-12
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Nancy, Sid and Sergio
Overview: When God and the Devil go on a rock climbing weekend in Wales it's down time, a chance to call a temporary truce. But, when they discover Nancy slumped at the bottom of a cliff, old rivalries soon surface when she joins them for a day of adventure. As night falls, they take shelter in a remote abandoned chapel and Nancy begins to feel a creeping sense of the strange about the the two men who introduced themselves as Sid and Sergio. When day breaks she is confronted by the horrific danger of her immediate predicament and the terrifying reality of what her future could hold.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Black Death
Overview: As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-07
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FX's A Christmas Carol
Overview: London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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Morning
Overview: Mary's (Eileen Walsh) morning is interrupted by a stranger (Johnny Harris) who causes her to confront what she has been hiding from.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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RocknRolla
Overview: When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-04
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Royalty
Overview: A brief glimpse into the life of Kelly, a prostitute, and her pimp Derek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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