Ian Bannen
Date of birth: 1928-06-29
Place of birth: Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ян Баннен, Ian Edmund Bannen
Biography
Ian Bannen (29 June 1928 – 3 November 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.
Movie Credits
Braveheart
1995-05-24
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla
The Long Arm
1956-06-01
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with cl
Waking Ned
1998-11-20
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
The Flight of the Phoenix
1965-12-15
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of th
Ring of Darkness
1979-10-29
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to re
Ghost Dad
1990-06-29
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of
A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
Eye of the Needle
1981-07-24
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th
Damage
1992-12-02
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obse
The Watcher in the Woods
1980-04-17
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tor
The Inglorious Bastards
1978-02-08
Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset up
Speaking of the Devil
1991-03-15
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant
The Hill
1965-06-17
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug
Too Late the Hero
1970-05-20
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island
Hope and Glory
1987-09-03
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
Bite the Bullet
1975-09-26
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r
The Offence
1973-01-11
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
The MacKintosh Man
1973-11-08
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be cau
Fright
1971-09-18
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their youn
Taliesin Jones
2002-02-01
Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959-03-10
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island.
Defence of the Realm
1986-05-09
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB ag
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957-04-02
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the
From Beyond the Grave
1974-02-21
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "O
Arise and Go Now
1991-09-04
Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northe
The Courier
1988-02-10
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
2002-04-16
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix
The Big Man
1990-08-31
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Private's Progress
1956-02-17
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t
Sweeney!
1977-01-14
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squ
Best
2000-05-10
Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of
Identikit
1974-05-20
A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist viol
Witch Story
1989-05-26
A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inheri
George's Island
1989-08-15
After telling his class about the ghost of Captain Kidd and his buried treasure on George’s Island,
Doomwatch
1972-03-01
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish ca
The Gathering Storm
1974-11-29
Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
The Voyage
1974-03-11
The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey
The Fifteen Streets
1989-01-01
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the
Jane Eyre
1970-12-01
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi
Suspect
1960-11-15
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list.
To Walk with Lions
1999-06-04
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. A
A French Mistress
1960-08-25
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to
Station Six-Sahara
1963-01-11
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts
Circles in a Forest
1989-08-01
Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the
Behind the Mask
1958-11-23
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patien
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969-03-29
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Penelope
1966-11-10
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay mu
Psyche 59
1964-04-29
An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.
Mister Moses
1965-05-12
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception
1990-03-11
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspe
Miracle in Soho
1957-07-09
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, wit
Measure for Measure
1994-11-05
Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Lamb
1986-10-10
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epilepti
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1980-11-20
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Prodigal
1983-10-14
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracl
Rotten to the Core
1965-07-14
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th
On Friday at Eleven
1961-02-16
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck
The Gamble
1988-10-28
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him c
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
1993-07-18
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Pool of London
1951-02-20
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Common Pursuit
1992-11-09
Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as u
A Pin for the Butterfly
1995-02-16
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppr
Gandhi
1982-12-01
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977-06-28
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth mor
The Birthday Present
1957-10-31
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatc
Macbeth
1964-03-16
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and th
The Treaty
1991-12-05
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins,
The Deserter
1970-12-04
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly
Gorky Park
1983-12-15
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but find
Something to Believe In
1998-05-08
Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt
The Gamble
1988-10-28
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him c
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967-01-01
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who
Uncle Vanya
1991-10-12
Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has sp
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988-12-03
During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in
Johnny Belinda
1967-10-22
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she i
Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead
1975-03-03
A woman hears her fiancee's ghostly voice telling her to find him.
Death in Deep Water
1975-11-04
A former hitman hides out in a remote fishing village but his secret soon begins to surface.
She Didn't Say No!
1958-09-30
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conserva
Dead Sea Reels
1996-08-18
A young man struggling to cope with the death of his daughter has a strange encounter with a priest.
Night Crossing
1982-02-05
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can ta
The Dark Avenger
1955-04-15
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English arm