Russell Hunter
Also Known As: Russell Ellis, Russel Hunter
Biography: Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of Lonely in the TV series Callan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 26, 2004
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Wet Job
Overview: S.I.S. agent David Callan is brought out of retirement for one last assignment.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-02
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The Masks of Death
Overview: Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-23
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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Overview: Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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The Cherry Orchard
Overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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American Cousins
Overview: Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants his property, but their strong arm tactics alarm him and he realises they aren't the PR consultants they claimed to be.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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The Christmas Star
Overview: Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-14
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Sweeney Todd
Overview: A fiendish barber in early 19th century London has many dark secrets in his past and also in his present day activities.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-16
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Dancing, Some Days
Overview: The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Lilli Marlene
Overview: Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Callan
Overview: David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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Never Say Die!
Overview: Short film directed by Sandy Johnson
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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The Great Mill Race
Overview: A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Love's Labour's Lost
Overview: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-06
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Angels One Five
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
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The Nuclear Family
Overview: 1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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The Gorbals Story
Overview: A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
Overview: The Doctor and Leela must catch a killer on a vast mining ship run by robots and humans.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-19
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A Magnum for Schneider
Overview: Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Callan: This Man Alone
Overview: Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-01
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Kiss Me and Die
Overview: When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie...
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-09
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The Dunroamin' Rising
Overview: Sixty years ago Ian Sinclair was a revolutionary leader. Today he is in an old folks' home, but has not lost his sense of humour, or his appetite for the struggle. In protest at the proposed closure of the home, the old socialist firebrand embarks upon a hunger strike that ends up having wide-range repercussions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
Overview: The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a travelling theatre group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-27
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Up Pompeii
Overview: A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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The Brave Don't Cry
Overview: At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine and flooding the pit shaft, resulting in 118 men being trapped, with nine missing. The only means by which the rescue team can bring the men out is through some old abandoned workings which are now full of gas and thus will cause delays in any rescue attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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