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Ian Bannen
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Ian Bannen - what members say
review by JediSi from Kent
And don't take it personally, Finn, but I bought you some expensive, fruity soaps. 19 January 2008
review by A customer from Yorkshire
Very unsettling but worth seeing 7 September 2007
review by A customer from
The Hill 22 December 2011
Ian Bannen - filmography
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To Walk With Lions
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Hugh Quarshie, Honor Blackman
Director: Carl Schultz
Certificate: 
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve ..read more »
 
64%
from 285 members
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Waking Ned
(1998)
Starring: Fionnula Flanagan, David Kelly, Ian Bannen
Director: Kirk Jones
Certificate: 
When Ned Devine dies of shock after he discovers he has won the lottery, his life-long friends Michael (David Kelly) and Jackie (Ian Bannen) find the winning ticket and decide that their old mate would have wanted them to collect the money. They deduce that one of them must pass himself off as Ned. ..read more »
70%
from 3,453 members
Currently unavailable
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Doctor Finlay - Snowblind
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ian Bannen, David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie
Director: Rodney Bennett
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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.
60%
from 20 members
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The Politician's Wife
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Trevor Eve, Anton Lesser, Juliet Stevenson
Director: Graham Theakston
Certificate: 
The complete serial on one tape starring Juliet Stevenson as the betrayed wife of Trevor Eve's Conservative Government Minister for the Family. When the scandal breaks Flora finds herself caught up in a damage limitation exercise, smiling meekly at her husband's side for photo opportunities. Inside ..read more »
70%
from 505 members
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Doctor Finlay - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Ian Bannen, David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie
Director: Aisling Walsh, Patrick Lau
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The complete first season of the popular Scottish drama series set in the 1940s. The series chronicles life in the town of Tannochbrae as people come to terms with post-war problems and Dr Finlay (David Rintoul) prepares to cope with upheaval in his personal and professional life.
60%
from 90 members
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Damage
(1992)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Jeremy Irons, Ian Bannen
Director: Louis Malle
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Adapted from Josephine Hart's spare novel by British screenwriter David Hare and French director Louis Malle, this brooding erotic drama concerns the obsessive sexual relationship between an English politician and his son's lover. Stephen Flemming (Jeremy Irons), an up-and-coming member of ..read more »
55%
from 2,046 members
Currently unavailable
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The Big Man
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen
Director: David Leland
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Liam Neeson plays an unemployed Scottish miner who trains for a one-off bare-knuckle fist fight to bring in some money for his family, despite the disapproval of his wife (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer). As the fight date approaches 'The Big Man' discovers that the fight is corrupt but the money keeps him ..read more »
62%
from 490 members
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The Courier
(1988)
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen, Cait O'Riordan
Director: Frank Deasy, Joe Lee
Certificate: 
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
54%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Hope And Glory
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Sammi Davis, Sarah Miles, David Hayman
Director: John Boorman
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An affectionate reverie about war, childhood, and British stoicism, John Boorman's Hope and Glory is the veteran filmmaker's recollection of the bombing of London during World War II. Set on the British home front during the early days of the war, this episodic movie shows the blitz through the ..read more »
71%
from 3,087 members
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Lamb
(1985)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Hugh O'Conor, Ian Bannen
Director: Colin Gregg
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Idealistic young priest Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson) is struggling with his faith following the death of his father. When 10-year-old epileptic Owen (Hugh O'Conor) is dumped at the remand home where Michael teaches, he begins to regress under the brutal regime of head priest Brother Benedict (Ian ..read more »
61%
from 239 members
Currently unavailable
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Defence Of The Realm
(1985)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Bill Peterson, Ian Bannen
Director: David Drury
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This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic investigations in an era of nuclear tensions and bureaucratic deceit. The film examines an unspooling series of events occurring after a near crash of a nuclear bomber at an American ..read more »
61%
from 368 members
Not available for rental
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Eye Of The Needle
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Ian Bannen, Kate Nelligan, Donald Sutherland
Director: Richard Marquand
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Big-screen adaptation of the espionage thriller by Ken Follet. Faber (Donald Sutherland) is a Nazi spy, who poses as an Englishman when he is shipwrecked on a Scottish island en route to Germany. Befriending the beautiful Lucy (Kate Nelligan), whose marriage to a crippled, embittered pilot is ..read more »
67%
from 571 members
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Ian Bannen, Alec Guinness
Director: John Irvin
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Superspy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) has for some time been in 'retirement' - some say due to his mishandling of the Czech scandal. However, the retiring masterspy finds himself summoned back to the 'Circus' (British secret service) when it transpires that an enemy infiltrator is at work in the ..read more »
78%
from 5,118 members
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Inglorious Bastards
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
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Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the ..read more »
46%
from 3,421 members
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Sweeney!
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Ian Bannen
Director: David Wickes
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A multinational oil cartel will do everything in their power to secure their position in the world market. When this policy leads to the blackmailing of the British Minister for Energy, Inspector Regan (John Thaw) and Sgt Carter (Dennis Waterman) of the Flying Squad are called in to investigate. ..read more »
71%
from 135 members
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Bite The Bullet
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Paul Stewart, James Coburn, Ian Bannen
Director: Richard Brooks
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Nine people take part in a 700 mile endurance horse race across the American West. The contestants include old friends Sam Clayon (Gene Hackman) and Luke Matthews (James Coburn), as well as the fiesty Miss Jones (Candice Bergen). Written and directed by Richard Brooks ('Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', '..read more »
59%
from 376 members
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The Voyage
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Barbara Pilavin, Sophia Loren, Ian Bannen
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Romantic drama directed by Vittoria De Sica and starring Richard Burton. When the head of the Braggi family dies, he leaves his two sons, Cesare (Burton) and Antonio (Ian Bannen), the family business in his will. Another one of his dying wishes was for Antonio to ask for the hand in marriage of the ..read more »
54%
from 38 members
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From Beyond the Grave
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen
Director: Kevin Connor
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Horror starring Peter Cushing. In a small antique shop in the East End of London an old proprietor (Cushing) promises a surprise with every purchase. These are the stories of four of his customers and their horrifying surprises. 'The Elemental' and 'The Gate Crasher' tell of two individuals who ..read more »
70%
from 824 members
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Offence
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen, Sean Connery
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Essentially a two-hander play transposed by ex-Z Cars writer John Hopkins to the screen and given a comparitively realistic police setting. Sean Connery is the policeman who has seen too much dying and misery on the force in the past twenty years. Ian Bannen is the prisoner suspected of being a ..read more »
64%
from 739 members
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Doomwatch
(1972)
Starring: Simon Oates, Judy Geeson, Ian Bannen
Director: Peter Sasdy
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Dr Del Shaw (Ian Bannen) of Doomwatch (the government's investigative environmental organisation) travels to the island of Balfe to see if the holing up of an oil tanker a year earlier has had any adverse effects. The villagers are all suspicious of Shaw, especially the menfolk, who seem to have ..read more »
52%
from 318 members
Currently unavailable
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Fright
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen
Director: Peter Collinson
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Early 1970s British horror. Susan George stars as Amanda, a young babysitter who arrives at the isolated home of Helen and Jim Lloyd (Honor Blackman and George Cole) to look after their young son, Tara (Tara Collinson), for the evening. Shortly after the couple leaves, a series of frightening ..read more »
57%
from 275 members
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Jane Eyre
(1970)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Ian Bannen, George C. Scott
Director: Delbert Mann
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An adaption of the classic tale of Jane Eyre an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. She is later made a governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Oblivious of her lowly-rank; she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield is home to many secrets and despite ..read more »
48%
from 69 members
Currently unavailable
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Denholm Elliott, Lance Percival
Director: Robert Aldrich
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November, 1942. A US Navy task force in the South Pacific faces imminent destruction unless the Japanese radio base on a nearby island can be silenced. The Navy's solution is to order the hard-nosed Lieutenant Lawson (Cliff Robertson) to join a bunch of British misfits - including the mouthy Tosh ..read more »
60%
from 969 members
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The Hill
(1965)
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Director: Sidney Lumet
Certificate: 
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.
74%
from 216 members
Currently unavailable
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The Flight Of The Phoenix
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for ..read more »
70%
from 2,097 members
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Suspect
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Thorley Walters, Anthony Booth, Peter Cushing
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
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Low budget British thriller from the Boulting brothers starring Tony Britton and Virginia Maskell. A team of scientists led by Professor Sewell (Peter Cushing) have been researching cures for plague. When their findings are suppressed by the government, junior scientist Bob Marriott (Britton) is so ..read more »
55%
from 71 members
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A Tale Of Two Cities
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Ian Bannen, Dorothy Tutin, Marie Versini
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Sydney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) is a frivolous London barrister, hopelessly in love with Lucie (Dorothy Tutin), even after she marries Charles Darnay (Paul Guers), who is descended from an unpleasant French aristocrat. Darnay is lured back to France as the Revolution gets into swing where he is ..read more »
67%
from 674 members
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Private's Progress
(1956)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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Upper class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army. An inept soldier, he unwittingly becomes involved in his high-ranking uncle's (Dennis Price) scam to appropriate some rather valuable spoils of war - a haul of German jewels. A sequel followed with 'I'm ..read more »
66%
from 693 members
Currently unavailable
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The Long Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Maureen Delany, Jack Hawkins, Meredith Edwards
Director: Charles Frend
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Superior police procedural drama, with a strong cast, from 1956 that portrays solid and patient police work without any of the psychological undertones more prevalent in the 'noir' thrillers of the same period. This film follows a team of British coppers, led by Supt. Tom Halliday (Jack Hawkins), ..read more »
73%
from 296 members
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Doctor Finlay - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Ian Bannen, David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie
Certificate:
The complete second season of the popular Scottish drama series set in the 1940s. The series chronicles life in the town of Tannochbrae as people come to terms with post-war problems and Dr Finlay (David Rintoul) prepares to cope with upheaval in his personal and professional life.
61%
from 57 members
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
on DVD
Starring: David Hemmings, Ian Bannen, Toyah Wilcox
Director: Alastair Reid
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David Hemmings stars as the virtuous Dr Jekyll who discovers a formula to unleash the dark side of man. The result is Mr Edward Hyde, his depraved inner demon who is let loose to enjoy the more decadent side of Victorian society. As his experiments continue Mr Hyde grows stronger as his creator ..read more »
49%
from 139 members
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Ian Bannen facts
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...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...
