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  • Waking Ned
  • Waking Ned review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 5 stars And don't take it personally, Finn, but I bought you some expensive, fruity soaps. 19 January 2008
    ...the most cynical moviegoer laugh out loud. The cast are incredible, especially Ian Bannen as Jackie, and David Kelly as Michael. Micheal's motorcycle ride to Ned's house...  
  • Lamb
  • Lamb review by A customer from Yorkshire
    Rated - 4 stars Very unsettling but worth seeing 7 September 2007
    ...haracter, after he apparently rescued the boy from danger, was truly deserved. Ian Bannen is suitably sinister as the lead Brother, the young actor playing the boy is mo...  
  • From Beyond the Grave
  • From Beyond the Grave review by from Chester, England
    Rated - 1 stars Don't rent - not as described 18 January 2005
    ...expecting Amicus's classic 1973 portmanteau horror film starring Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, David Warner, Diana Dors and Donald Pleasence prepare to be disappointed. This...  

Ian Bannen - filmography


  • To Walk With Lions on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Ian Bannen,  John Michie
    Director: Carl Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The continuing story of George Adamson and his battle to save wildlife in Kenya. This time George and Tony, a down-and-out from London, try to put a stop to illegal trading for rhino horn and ivory...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 234 members
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  • Waking Ned on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ian Bannen,  Fionnula Flanagan,  Susan Lynch
    Director: Kirk Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A comedy about the inhabitants of Tulley More, a small Irish town with a population of fifty-two and dwindling. When Jackie and Michael discover that someone in their town has won the national lottery, they intend to uncover the lucky individual and talk him into sharing the jackpot with them. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,780 members
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  • Doctor Finlay - Snowblind on DVD (1996)
    Starring: David Rintoul,  Jessica Turner,  Annette Crosbie
    Director: Rodney Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Completing the popular series, this festive episode sees Dr Cameron suffering from a heart attack while dining at Arden House. With the phone line out of order and the roads blocked with snow, Dr Finlay must rely on his own resources to act fast and save his colleague's life.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 10 members
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  • The Politician's Wife (1995)
    Starring: Juliet Stevenson,  Trevor Eve,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Graham Theakston
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Juliet Stevenson turns in a powerfully nuanced performance as a jilted housewife bent on revenge in this suspenseful British mini-series of political and sexual intrigue. Stevenson stars as Flora Matlock, the dutiful wife of smarmy, Machiavellian politician Duncan Matlock (Trevor Eve), a social-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 190 members
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  • Damage on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Juliette Binoche,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this gripping romantic thriller, a married and respected middle-aged MP becomes romantically and obsessively involved with his son's fiancee, ultimately ruining his career. Willing to pay any price for his passion, he goes a step too far, and ultimately arranges his own tragic demise.Academy ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,872 member
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  • Lamb (1985)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ian Bannen,  Frances Tomelty
    Director: Colin Gregg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Catholic priest struggling with his faith is moved by the mistreatment of a deeply troubled boy at a school for delinquent youths on the Atrim Coast of Ireland. Renouncing his vows and taking the boy with him, the two head toward an uncertain fate.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 213 members
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  • The Voyage on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Richard Burton,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adriana De Mauro (Sophia Loren) finds herself unable to be with the man she loves, as his father decreed that his brother should be the one to marry her. So her love Cesar Braggi (Richard Burton) steps aside to allow his sibling Antonio (Ian Bannen), to take her hand. But when fate intervenes in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 11 members
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  • Doomwatch on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Judy Geeson,  Ian Bannen,  Simon Oates
    Director: Peter Sasdy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A pollution expert travels to a remote island to study the effects of radiation, and there meets a strange and mysterious race of people. Based on the British television program, DOOMWATCH explores a frightening world of mutated lifeforms and murderous monsters. The investigators of the island must ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 271 members
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  • Offence on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Trevor Howard,  Vivien Merchant
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery, in a career-defining role) has been on the Force for twenty years. He has seen too much dying, too much lying and too much maiming. When confronted with a suspect in a child-molesting case, he can no longer contain his fury.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 507 members
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  • Fright (1971)
    Starring: Susan George,  Honor Blackman,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Peter Collinson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Amanda agreed to babysit for a friend, little did she realise it would begin an endless night of terror. For her neighbour's insane ex-husband has managed to escape from a mental asylum. And tonight is the night he has chosen to come home.....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 18th January 2010
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  • Jane Eyre on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Ian Bannen,  Jack Hawkins,  Susannah York
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian tale of Jane Eyre (Susannah York), an orphan girl secures the position of governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), Lord of the English manor house Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret. Jane and the moody and tyrannical ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 46 members
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  • Too Late The Hero on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Henry Fonda,  Cliff Robertson
    Director: Robert Aldrich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Robert Aldrich's pulsating World War II thriller, Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specializing in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific theater to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission--knock ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 768 members
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  • The Hill (1965)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Harry Andrews,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    THE HILL, a World War II drama directed by Sidney Lumet, focuses on the cruel British soldiers who were based in the desert in Libya, Africa.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 176 members
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  • The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  John Stratton,  Dorothy Alison
    Director: Charles Frend
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 165 members
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Ian Bannen facts

5 most recent films

To Walk With Lions - 3.0 stars
Waking Ned - 3.5 stars
Doctor Finlay - Snowblind - 3.0 stars
The Politician's Wife - 3.5 stars
Doctor Finlay - Series 1 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - 4.0 stars
The Hill - 3.5 stars
Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2 - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
Hope And Glory - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fright - 3 stars
Blue Ice - 2.0 stars
Jane Eyre - 2.5 stars
The Voyage - 2.5 stars
Suspect - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Thorley Walters - 4 times - show films
Denholm Elliott - 4 times - show films
Annette Crosbie - 3 times - show films
David Rintoul - 3 times - show films
Frederick Treves - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roy Boulting - 3 times - show films
David Drury - 2 times - show films
John Boulting - 2 times - show films
Robert Aldrich - 2 times - show films
Sidney Lumet - 2 times - show films