Denis Lawson
Also Known As: دنیس لاسن
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Lawson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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Birthday: September 27, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Star Wars
Overview: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Local Hero
Overview: An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Overview: Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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Enid
Overview: A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her personal struggles often proved too much.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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Somnium
Overview: Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster technologies. Keeping Joan company on her endless missions is her ship, PAT 1. He's laconic, lazy and desperate to retire but remains deeply loyal. Together they've explored the outer edges of the galaxy, all the while preserving their 100% delivery record. But on this job, something's different. Three innocuous packages and a trip into uncharted space: it's nothing she hasn't handled before.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Perfect Sense
Overview: In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Providence
Overview: On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-25
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The Wee Man
Overview: The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Fried Crumbed Brains
Overview: After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Valerio decide to have a trip on a house-boat with Marianna, his fiancée, and they bring Antonio with them. Antonio unexpectedly drives the boat far away till it gets stuck on a sandbank. Valerio leaves his brother and Marianna alone on the boat and goes searching for help. A storm obliges the two to spend a night together on an island. During that night Marianna discovers, step by step, the poetic and childish world of Antonio, starting to appreciate the different resources of mentally handicapped persons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Broken
Overview: Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-22
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No Holds Bard
Overview: Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-25
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The Chain
Overview: Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Machine
Overview: Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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Breaking the Mould
Overview: A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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The Paradise Run
Overview: Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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The Empire Strikes Back
Overview: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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Return of the Jedi
Overview: Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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Fearless Frank
Overview: The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-04
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The Lighthouse Stevensons
Overview: The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the Bell Rock. For nearly 150 years, Robert Stevenson, his sons and grandsons designed many of the lighthouses around Scotland's coast. His sons Alan, David and Thomas also became lighthouse engineers. His grandsons (David's sons) David Alan Stevenson and Charles Stevenson designed lighthouses too.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-01
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One Way Out
Overview: James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-10
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Overview: Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-09
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Lucky Jim
Overview: A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Bitter Cherry
Overview: Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Bejewelled
Overview: An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
Genres: Action TV Movie Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-20
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The Thieving Headmistress
Overview: A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Above Their Station
Overview: One-off comedy special. On the mean streets of Vange in Essex, naive police community support officer Len is the victim of a cruel hoax perpetrated by 'proper copper' PC Preston. Meanwhile, there have been a series of bizarre thefts at the station and PCSO Kelly thinks she knows who is responsible. Fellow 'plastic policeman' Perry doesn't know who to help - Len, Kelly or retiring colleague Chester.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-20
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A Royal Scandal
Overview: The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Holocaust 2000
Overview: An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
Genres: History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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The Zip
Overview: A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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The Black Death
Overview: The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Real Hughie Green
Overview: TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-07
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Overview: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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Burns in the USA
Overview: Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired by him. From Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to Bob Dylan, some of the most significant figures in American politics and culture have cited Burns as an influence.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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Born Kicking
Overview: Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Jumping Bean Bag
Overview: At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-07
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A Quiet Night In
Overview: Gerald owns a beautiful house with lots of beautiful things in it. Beautiful things that are also extremely valuable. The kind of things that might just become the target of an audacious criminal enterprise.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-02
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A New Body at Last
Overview: The cast and crew discussing the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, including exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the regeneration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Leonard
Overview: Leonard is the victim of obsessive compulsive behaviour; meticulous and insular, his world is at home. When his long-lost son, Callum, turns up on the doorstep, seeming to be the epitome of Leonard's worst paranoias, their differences appear irreconcilable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-03
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