Cal MacAninch
Date of birth: 1963-11-24
Place of birth: Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Cal Macaninch, Calum Andrew Colquhoun MacAninch
Biography
Cal MacAninch is a Scottish actor, who is known for portraying the character of DI John Keenan in police drama HolbyBlue on BBC1 (from 2007 to 2008). Other notable appearances were his roles as Mr Thackeray in the ITV period drama, Mr Selfridge, and Henry Lang in Downton Abbey, but he has played many leading roles in British television and film over the last 30 years. MacAninch played Rowan Collins in Series 4 of the ITV drama series Wild at Heart. He returned to the show for its fifth series as a main cast member. He also played Tauren, a sorcerer in the BBC television series Merlin in the episode "To Kill the King". He starred in the 2001 BBC miniseries The Best of Both Worlds with Alice Evans. He appeared as Henry Lang, a valet, in the second series of Downton Abbey.
Movie Credits
The Lost Son
1999-06-25
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best frie
Warriors
1999-11-29
If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying f
Slapper
2008-06-21
A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather tha
The Chestnut Soldier
1991-11-20
Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken to
The Point Men
2001-09-07
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli
The Woodlanders
1998-02-06
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant
A Mind to Murder
1995-01-02
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of
Speak Like a Child
1998-09-04
Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the inten
Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One
1995-01-29
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
The Visit
2023-05-20
IRA man Tommy McDaid is pulled back to Manchester 25 years after he helped plant a huge bomb that de
Little Bird
2000-11-01
A film that searches the dilemma of a middle age couple Ellen and Michael Hall, who have lost their
Alive and Kicking
1991-10-13
Gritty and powerful Screen One film that takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Lenny Henry pl
Dangerous Lady
1995-05-23
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mi
Doomsday
2008-03-14
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousa
The Awakening
2011-08-17
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys b
Splitting Heirs
1993-04-02
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom h
Best
2000-05-10
Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of
Dear Frankie
2004-05-18
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remembe
Nervous Energy
1995-11-09
Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms n
Rag Tale
2005-10-07
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Calibre
2018-06-22
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip th
Intrigo: Dear Agnes
2019-10-10
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another h
Jetsam
2007-10-23
A young woman finds herself onto a desolate beach and tries to find out the how and why of her immed
Susan Hill's Ghost Story
2019-12-26
An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate
Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter
2012-09-07
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the
The Reckoning
2021-02-05
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young wi
Sentimental Education
1998-01-01
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main
Nobody Has to Know
2022-03-23
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of I
Breathtaking
2000-12-16
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
The Punishment
2021-02-18
A grief-stricken father hunts down the boy responsible for the events that led to his son's murder b
Macbeth
2025-02-05
Fearless and unforgettably creepy. This high-concept production, filmed live at London’s Donmar Ware
Intrigo: Samaria
2019-10-10
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike an
Lucky Star
2019-06-30
1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind