Phil McCall
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 26, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 29, 2002
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Breaking the Waves
Overview: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-07-05
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Ring of Bright Water
Overview: Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-18
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Puccini
Overview: In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Glasgow Belongs to Me
Overview: An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is happy to oblige and the visitor gets to see the City first hand.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Night People
Overview: A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Jackie McCafferty's Romance
Overview: A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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Brigadista
Overview: When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the International Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information. Technically, this was the last Play For Today ever made by the BBC, but it wasn't broadcast under the strand.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Silent Mouse
Overview: On Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria the Oberndorf organ broke down. The assistant priest writes a carol to be accompanied by guitar. The carol was "Silent Night".
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-25
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Postmortem
Overview: The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-20
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Just Another Saturday
Overview: It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-05
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One Bummer News Day
Overview: What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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The Thin End of the Wedge
Overview: A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Ploughman's Share
Overview: When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-27
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Orkney
Overview: Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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The Beauty of the Common Tool
Overview: Time and again a man will stand before a hardware store window eyeing the tools arrayed behind the glass; his mouth will water; he will go in and hand over $2.65 for a perfectly special kind of wrench; and probably he will never, never, use it for anything. -Walker Evans
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-18
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