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A Very British Coup review by from Hulme Manchester

Great, if a little old fashioned 5 October 2005
...oned labour pm who does things his way. Really good cast, with Keith Allen and Ray McAnally doing their bit for the masses. Rent it and wonder what it would have been like... Read customer review

The Mission review by IanStewart from Melton Mowbray, England

Neglected masterpiece 3 November 2007
...ts out as slaver and villain, but ends up as a very different character indeed. Ray McAnally does an excellent supporting job as the Cardinal, portraying him as a basically... Read customer review

Ray McAnally - filmography

A Very British Coup on DVD (1988)
Starring: Ray McAnally, Alan MacNaughton, Keith Allen
Director: Mick Jackson
Certificate:
An ex-steel worker becomes Prime Minister after charming the press and media with his down-to-earth electioneering. But his radical policies are not what the opposition want, nor the Americans, so both are out to bring him down.

76% from 917 members

Jack The Ripper on DVD (1988)
Starring: Susan George, Lysette Anthony, Ray McAnally
Director: David Wickes
Certificate:
Victorian London and the streets of Whitechapel are stalked by the legendary Jack the Ripper, whose vicious attacks on East End prostitutes have become the stuff of legend. However, in this film the emphasis is not so much on the legend, as on the society's efforts to deal with the killer in its ..read more »

70% from 1,523 member

The Fourth Protocol on DVD (1987)
Starring: Michael Gough, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy
Director: John Mackenzie
Certificate:
Cold War thriller adapted by Frederick Forsyth from his own bestseller. When Soviet spy Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan) is charged with bringing about the demise of NATO, he decides his best bet is to detonate an American nuclear bomb at a British air base. The only man who can stand in his way ..read more »

67% from 2,130 members

A Perfect Spy (3 discs) on DVD (1987)
Starring: Sarah Badel, Alan Howard, Rüdiger Weigang
Director: Peter Smith
Certificate:
When top British secret agent Magnus Pym (Peter Egan) goes missing, the service has to employ another spy of equal calibre to track him down. Pym, meanwhile, has embarked on another kind of search, in an attempt to discover his true identity.

70% from 603 members

Taffin on DVD (1987)
Starring: Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Director: Francis Megahy, Francis Megahy
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Lone gun Mark Taffin (Pierce Brosnan) works as a debt collector in a small Irish town and he is happy in his free-wheeling, day-by-day existence. But when a crime syndicate embarks on a plan to build a dangerous chemical plant in the vicinity, Taffin is suprised to discover that he is the only ..read more »

57% from 378 members

The Mission on DVD (1986)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Aidan Quinn, Ray McAnally
Director: Roland Joffe
Certificate:
The story of the conflict between slave-traders and Jesuits during the colonisation of South America by Spain and Portugal. In 1750 Jesuit priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) arrives in the Amazon to build a mission for the Guarani Indians. He comes into conflict with slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro)..read more »

70% from 7,132 members

No Surrender on DVD (1986)
Starring: Michael Angelis, Tom Georgeson, Joanne Whalley
Director: Peter Smith
Certificate:
Alan Bleasdale pens this dark comedy set in Liverpool. As a parting shot, a retiring Liverpool nightclub manager plays a cruel prank on his successor by booking two groups of pensioners - one Catholic and one Protestant - into the same bar room on the same night. When the new manager, Mike (Michael ..read more »

64% from 74 members

Big Breadwinner Hog And Spindoe - The Co... (5 discs) (1969)
Starring: Rachel Herbert, Basil Dignam, Peter Thomas
Director: Cyril Coke, Michael Apted, Mike Newell
Certificate:
Collected episodes of two late '60s gang drama series. 'Spindoe' was a spinoff from an earlier Granada drama 'The Fellows'. At the end of that series, Alec Spindoe (Ray McAnally) had been sent to prison but here he is on the outside yet again. After his time inside, he attempts to pick up where he ..read more »

59% from 20 members
Not available for rental

Gideon's Way - The Complete Series (7 discs) (1965)
Starring: George Baker, Gordon Jackson, Gerald Harper
Certificate:
John Gregson plays Scotland Yard police commander George Gideon in this groundbreaking British television crime drama, one of the first regular series to be shot on location. Includes all 26 episodes: 'State Visit'; 'The V Men'; 'The Firebug'; 'The Big Fix'; 'The Housekeeper'; 'The Lady-Killer'; '..read more »

64% from 218 members
Not available for rental

Ray McAnally facts

5 most recent films

A Very British Coup - 4.0 stars
Jack The Ripper - 3.5 stars
The Fourth Protocol - 3.5 stars
A Perfect Spy - 3.5 stars
Taffin - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Very British Coup - 4.0 stars
Jack The Ripper - 3.5 stars
The Mission - 3.5 stars
A Perfect Spy - 3.5 stars
The Fourth Protocol - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Big Breadwinner Hog And Spindoe - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
Taffin - 3.0 stars
No Surrender - 3.0 stars
Gideon's Way - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
The Fourth Protocol - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Egan - 7 times - show films
Rosemary McHale - 6 times - show films
Anthony Bate - 6 times - show films
Tony Steedman - 6 times - show films
Peter Thomas - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 8 times - show films
Cyril Coke - 6 times - show films
Mike Newell - 6 times - show films
Michael Apted - 6 times - show films
Roland Joffe - 3 times - show films

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