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Ray Winstone
Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone (born 19 February 1957) is an English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood. He has also become well known as a voice over actor. More recently he has branched out into film production. His film résumé includes Cold Mountain, King Arthur, The Proposition, The Departed, Beowulf, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Edge of Darkness. He is known for starring in very profane and violent films such as " Nil By Mouth", " Sexy Beast" and " 44 Inch Chest".
Winstone was born in Hackney Hospital, London.His family was originally from Cirencester, Gloucestershire – half of them moving to London, the other half to Wales. Winstone moved via Plaistow to Enfield when he was seven he grew up on a council estate just off the A10. His father, Raymond J. Winstone, ran a fruit and vegetable business (he is now a black cab driver), while his mother, Margaret (née Richardson), had a job emptying fruit machines. Winstone recalls playing with his friends on bomb sites until "Moors Murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested for killing three children. Winstone joined Brimsdown Primary School and then he was educated at Edmonton County, which had changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive upon his arrival. He also attended Corona Theatre School .He did not take to school, eventually leaving with a single CSE (Grade 2) in Drama.
Winstone had an early affinity for acting; his father would take him to the cinema every Wednesday afternoon. Later, he would witness Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the bug would bite: "I thought 'I could be that geezer'" he said later. Other major influences included John Wayne, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. After borrowing extra tuition money from a friend's mother, a drama teacher, he took to the stage, appearing as a Cockney newspaper-seller in a production of Emil and the Detectives.
Winstone was also a fan of boxing. Known to his friends as Winnie, at home he was called Little Sugs (his father already being known as Sugar – after Sugar Ray Robinson). At the age of 12, Winstone joined the famous Repton Amateur Boxing Club and, over the next 10 years, won 80 out of 88 bouts. At welterweight, he was London schoolboy champion on three occasions, fighting twice for England. The experience gave him a perspective on his later career: "If you can get in a ring with 2,000 people watching and be smacked around by another guy, then walking onstage isn't hard."
SchoolDeciding to pursue drama, Winstone enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in Hammersmith. At £900 a term, it was expensive, considering the average wage was then about £36 a week.
He landed his first major role in What a Crazy World at Theatre Royal Stratford East, but he danced and sang badly, leading his usually-supportive father to say "Give it up, while you're ahead." One of his first TV appearances came in the 1976 "Loving Arms" episode of the popular police series The Sweeney where he was credited as "Raymond Winstone" and played a minor part as an unnamed young thug.
Winstone was not popular with the establishment at his secondary school, who considered him a bad influence. After some 12 months, he found that he was the only pupil not invited to the Christmas party and decided to take revenge for this slight. Hammering some pins through a piece of wood, he placed it under the wheel of his headmistress's car and blew out the tyre. For this, he was expelled. As a joke, he went up to the BBC, where his schoolmates were involved in an audition, and got one of his own by flirting with the secretary. The audition was for one of the most notorious plays in history – Alan Clarke's Scum – and, because Clarke liked Winstone's cocky, aggressive boxer's walk, he got the part, even though it had been written for a Glaswegian. The play, written by Roy Minton and directed by Clarke, was a brutal depiction of a young offenders institution. Winstone was cast in the leading role of Carlin, a young offender who struggles against both his captors and his fellow cons in order to become the "Daddy" of the institution. Hard hitting and often violent (particularly during the infamous "billiards" scene in which Carlin uses two billiard balls stuffed in a sock in order to beat one of his fellow inmates over the head) the play was judged unsuitable for broadcast by the BBC, and was not finally shown until 1991. The banned television play was entirely re-filmed in 1979 for cinematic release with many of the original actors playing the same roles. In a recent director's commentary for the Scum DVD, Winstone cites Clarke as a major influence on his career, and laments the director's death in 1990 from cancer.
Winstone's role in Scum seems to have set a mould for many of his other parts; he is frequently cast as a tough or violent man. He has also been cast against type, however, in films in which he reveals a softer side. He had a comedic part in Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, and played the romantic lead in Fanny And Elvis. His favourite role was in the television biopic on the life of England's most notorious monarch, King Henry VIII. Helena Bonham Carter co-starred as Henry's most well-known queen, Anne Boleyn. Emilia Fox played Jane Seymour, Charles Dance played the Duke of Buckingham, Emily Blunt played Catherine Howard and David Suchet played Cardinal Wolsey. Joss Ackland and Sean Bean also starred.
Television and filmAfter a short run in the TV series Fox, and a role in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (alongside Diane Lane, Laura Dern and a host of real-life punks like Fee Waybill, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Paul Simonon), Winstone got another big break, being cast as Will Scarlet in Robin of Sherwood. He proved immensely popular and enjoyed the role, considering Scarlet to be "the first football Hooligan" - though he was not fond of the dubbed German version, in which he said he sounded like a "psychotic mincer." But once the show was over, the parts dried up. He got involved in co-producing Tank Malling, starring Jason Connery, Amanda Donohoe and Maria Whittaker, and scored a few TV parts. Over the years, he's appeared in TV shows including The Sweeney, The Bill, Boon, Fairly Secret Army (as Stubby Collins), Ever Decreasing Circles, One Foot in the Grave, Murder Most Horrid, Birds of a Feather, Minder, Kavanagh QC, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Get Back (with the fledgling Kate Winslet). During this period, he was increasingly drawn to the theatre, playing in Hinkemann in 1988, Some Voices in 1994 and Dealer's Choice and Pale Horse the following year.
Winstone was asked to appear in Mr Thomas, a play written by his friend and fellow-Londoner Kathy Burke. The reviews were good, and led to Winstone being cast, alongside Burke, in Gary Oldman's drama Nil By Mouth. He was widely lauded for his performance as an alcoholic wife-batterer, receiving a BAFTA nomination (17 years after his Best Newcomer award for That Summer). He continued to play "tough guy" roles in the likes of Face and The War Zone — the latter especially controversial, as he played a man who rapes his own daughter — but that obvious toughness would also allow him to play decent men softened by love in romantic comedies like Fanny And Elvis and There's Only One Jimmy Grimble. In Last Christmas, he played a dead man, now a trainee angel, who returns from Heaven to help his young son cope with his bereavement, written by Tony Grounds, with whom Winstone worked again on Births, Marriages & Deaths and Our Boy, the latter winning him the Royal Television Society Best Actor Award. They worked together again in 2006 on All In The Game where Winstone portrayed a football manager. He did a series of Holsten Pils ads where he played upon the phrase "Who's the Daddy", coined in the film Scum.
In 2000 Winstone starred along side Jude Law in the hit cult film Love, Honour And Obey, then snagged the lead role in Sexy Beast, that brought him great acclaim from UK and international audiences, and brought him to the attention of the American film industry. Winstone plays "Gal" Dove, a retired and happily married former thief dragged back into London's underworld by a psychopathic former associate ( Ben Kingsley, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance).
After a brief role alongside Burke again in the tragi-comic The Martins, he appeared in Last Orders, where he starred alongside Michael Caine, Helen Mirren, David Hemmings and Tom Courtenay.
Next Winstone would get a prime part in Ripley's Game, the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which he once again played a gangster. He followed up with Lenny Blue, the sequel to Tough Love, and the short The Bouncer.
In 2000, he starred in To the Green Fields Beyond at the Donmar Warehouse (directed by Sam Mendes, the man behind American Beauty). In 2002 he performed at the Royal Court as Griffin in The Night Heron. Two years later, he joined Kevin Spacey for 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic, a series of productions that were written, rehearsed and performed in a single day. Now internationally known, Winstone was next chosen by Anthony Minghella to play Teague, a sinister Home Guard boss, in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain.
Perhaps inspired by Burke and Oldman, Winstone has now decided to direct and produce his own movies, setting up Size 9 and Flicks production companies with his long-time agent Michael Wiggs. The first effort was She's Gone, in which he plays a businessman whose young daughter disappears in Istanbul (filming was held up by unrest in the Middle East). He followed it up with Jerusalem, in which he played poet and visionary William Blake.
Winstone made his action movie debut in King Arthur, starring Clive Owen, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. In that film, Fuqua proclaimed him as "the British De Niro." He then provided the voice of Soldier Sam in the screen version of The Magic Roundabout.
In 2005, he appeared opposite Suranne Jones in ITV drama Vincent about a team of private detectives. He returned to the role in 2006 and was awarded an International Emmy. In 2005 he also portrayed a 19th century English policeman trying to tame the Australian outback in The Proposition. A complete change of pace for Winstone was providing the voice for the plucky Mr. Beaver in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, also in 2005. Winstone appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed as Mr. French, an enforcer to Jack Nicholson's mob boss. He provided motion capture movements and voice for the title character in the Robert Zemeckis' film Beowulf. He then co-starred in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was released on 22 May 2008. He returned to television drama in The Changeling inspired Compulsion, originally shown in May 2009. He is currently filming in New Zealand as 'Arjan' in the film Tracker with 13/Temuera_Morrison.html">Temuera Morrison. He next stars in 44 Inch Chest, alongside John Hurt and Ian McShane. He also had a role as CIA agent Darius Jedburgh in the Edge of Darkness remake, replacing Robert De Niro. He is set to play the role of Detective Inspector Jack Regan in a remake of The Sweeney. Winstone stars also in the slasher-thriller film Red Snow, directed by Stuart St. Paul and based on a short film by Adam Mason.
In November 2010, Winstone completed filming a new British independent film The Hot Potato, based on a true story set in the East End of London in the 1960s. The film, scheduled for release in 2011, will also star his eldest daughter Lois Winstone, Jack Huston, Colm Meaney and David Harewood.
Winstone met his wife, Elaine, while filming That Summer in 1979. They have three daughters, the eldest two, Lois and Jaime, both being actors.
Winstone lives with his wife in Roydon, Essex. He is an avid fan of West Ham United and promoted their 2009 home kit.
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Winstone quits booze -
14 October 2011
-Ray Winstone has quit partying when he shoots movies because his on-set hangovers are unbearable.-The Departed star Winstone loved indulging in late-night drinking sessions during filming when he was a young man, but he struggles to cope with the after-effects as he
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Winstone & Izzard join Snow White saga as dwarves -
22 June 2011
-Sexy Beast star Ray Winstone and funnyman Eddie Izzard are set to join fellow Brit Ian Mcshane as dwarves in Kristen Stewart's new Snow White movie.-Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders has also recruited Eddie Marsan, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones to play
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Winstone has no regrets about turning down The Wire -
29 April 2011
-British actor Ray Winstone turned down a role in acclaimed U.S. TV show The Wire because he couldn't bear to be parted from his family in the U.K.-The Sexy Beast star has revealed he was asked to join the cast of the cop show, set in Baltimore, Maryland, but rejected
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Superb Family Entertainment!!!!!!!!! 18 November 2004
Ray Winstone - filmography
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet
Director: Brian Kirk
Certificate: 
Everything can change in a heartbeat.
On a cold winter's day, orphan Pip has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. Pip's innocent act of kindness towards this man is to have far reaching consequences for them both. Meanwhile, Miss Havisham, the reclusive owner of the grand and ..read more »
 
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Rango
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Maile Flanagan, John Cothran Jr., Hemky Madera
Director: Gore Verbinski
Certificate: 
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Get ready to tango with RANGO, a winner with critics and audiences that's "like nothing you've ever seen before"; (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Johnny Depp is spectacular as Rango, a kooky pet chameleon who gets tossed into a wild and raucous town in desperate need of a hero. Refreshingly ..read more »
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Hooligan - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Donal MacIntyre
Director: Donal MacIntyre
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From the director of "A Very British Gangster", Hooligan is a shocking exposé that tackles the dark side of football from England to Germany, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States.
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Rango - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Maile Flanagan, Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher
Director: Gore Verbinski
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A pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his wildest imagination in this animated Western adventure from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN director Gore Verbinski. When we first meet Rango (voice of Johnny Depp), the sheltered pet ..read more »
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from 6,651 members
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Hugo - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Martin Scorsese
Certificate: 
A young orphan living in a Paris train station uncovers a mystery that jeopardizes his secretive way of life in this Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of Brian Selznick's stunning children's book. THE AVIATOR's John Logan provides the screenplay for the lavish production, which stars Ben Kingsley,..read more »
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Due for release on 26th March 2012
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Hugo
(2011)
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and a robot.
68%
from 393 members
Due for release on 26th March 2012
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44 Inch Chest
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ian McShane, John Hurt, Ray Winstone
Director: Malcolm Venville
Certificate: 
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British hardman Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, SCUM) reunites with SEXY BEAST screenwriters Louise Mellis and David Scinto for this intriguing gangland thriller in which a scorned husband enlists his friends in a plan to kidnap the lover of his adulteress wife.
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Tracker
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Andy Anderson
Director: Ian Sharp
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Set in 1903, Tracker is a tense action thriller in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier.
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Ben Hur - The Mini Series
(2010)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily VanCamp, Kristin Kreuk
Director: Steve Shill
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In this new adaptation of the colossal classic, Ben Hur: The Mini Series delivers more action, passion and revenge than ever before. The timeless story follows two friends who become bitter enemies and the historic events of the time as told through the eyes of Judah Ben-Hur. Born a wealthy Jewish ..read more »
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from 30 members
Due for release on 27th February 2012
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Tracker - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Andy Anderson
Director: Ian Sharp
Certificate:
Set in 1903, Tracker is a tense action thriller in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier.
What should be a ..read more »
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from 828 members
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Edge of Darkness - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Danny Huston, Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Campbell
Certificate:
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Edge of Darkness is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered ..read more »
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13
(2010)
Starring: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke
Director: Gela Babluani
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A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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from 62 members
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Edge of Darkness
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Danny Huston, Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Campbell
Certificate:
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Edge of Darkness is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered ..read more »
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Fathers of Girls
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Chloe Howman, Lois Winstone
Director: Ethem Cetintas, Karl Howman
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Ray Winstone plays Frank Horner, a solicitor based in a small town in Wiltshire, England. His daughter Helen is leaving home for the first time to go to university and move in with her boyfriend. Frank has to come to terms with parting from his 'princess', whom he has smothered with love for over ..read more »
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44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Malcolm Venville
Certificate:
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British hardman Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, SCUM) reunites with SEXY BEAST screenwriters Louise Mellis and David Scinto for this intriguing gangland thriller in which a scorned husband enlists his friends in a plan to kidnap the lover of his adulteress wife.
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Fool's Gold
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland
Director: Andy Tennant
Certificate:
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After starring in the romantic comedy hit HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson up the action ante for this adventure film. In this action-comedy hybrid, the pair plays a divorced couple who reunite to search for sunken treasure. Andy Tennant (HITCH, SWEET HOME ALABAMA) ..read more »
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from 22,524 members
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Compulsion
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Parminder K. Nagra
Director: Sarah Harding
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Anjika Indrani (Parminder Nagra) is a young Cambridge graduate, happy and settled with her loving boyfriend. However, Anjika's contented freedom is shattered when her strict father tries to force her into an arranged marriage of convenience. Feeling trapped and desperate she makes the life-altering ..read more »
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Fool's Gold - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Kevin Hart, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Andy Tennant
Certificate:
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After starring in the romantic comedy hit HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson up the action ante for this adventure film. In this action-comedy hybrid, the pair plays a divorced couple who reunite to search for sunken treasure. Andy Tennant (HITCH, SWEET HOME ALABAMA) ..read more »
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from 2,905 members
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Beowulf - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Using the same CGI technique as his film The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
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from 8,152 members
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Beowulf - HD
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate:
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Using the same CGI technique as his film THE POLAR EXPRESS, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
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The Proposition - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
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Vincent - S02 E02
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Terry McDonough
Certificate:
The PI hooks up with an former lover as he looks into a murder resembling the work of a serial killer. His instincts prompt him to delve deeper into the circumstances of the case when the suspect admits to all of the slayings but one : the latest murder.
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Vincent - S02 E03
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Certificate:
A single parent is terrorised by an unknown assailant and asks for Vincent's help. The PI tells Beth to pose as the family's nanny and must uncover a link to the past if he is to discover who the perpetrator is.
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Vincent - S02 E04
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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Following an investigation on a call-girl who drugs her clients to steal their belongings, the private eye helps protect a community centre run by a Catholic priest. After it is assailed by a gang of teenage hooligans and when the priest gets severely burnt when the building is subject to an arson ..read more »
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All In The Game
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Roy Marsden, Danny Dyer
Director: Jim O'Hanlon
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A passionate portrayal of the corruption and greed that goes on within a (fictional) Premiership Club throughout the whole set up - from backroom staff and players to the manager and directors.
58%
from 2,211 members
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The Departed - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
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from 7,595 members
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
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Everything
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jan Graveson, Lois Winstone
Director: Richard Hawkins
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When Richard visits a London prostitute called Naomi 9 times over 9 consecutive days, without once soliciting a single sexual favour, something is awry. Richard doesn't want sex from Naomi - but he does want something...
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Vincent - S01 E03
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Roger Gartland
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The private investigator hooks up with an old flame as he looks into a murder resembling the work of a notorious serial killer. However, his instincts prompt him to delve deeper into the circumstances of the case when the suspect admits to all of the slayings except this latest homicide.
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Vincent - S01 E02
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Peter Lydon
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A wealthy man calls on Vincent and the team to look into the death of his son, murdered in a nightclub. The prime suspect is the victim's friend, but the police are unable to arrest him due to lack of evidence. To make matters worse, the investigating officer on the case is the private eye's ..read more »
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Vincent - S01 E04
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Roger Gartland
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The team are contacted by a woman who has found thousands of pounds stashed in her husband's wardrobe. They also take on an assignment for a man who's concerned his teenage son is falling in with the wrong crowd, and it soon becomes apparent the two cases are closely linked. Vincent sets a trap to ..read more »
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King Arthur
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Certificate:
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Combining the historical appeal and epic sequences of films like GLADIATOR and BRAVEHEART, director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer provide a sleek twist on the King Arthur legend. Arthur (Clive Owen), a brave Roman/British Christian warrior who leads his band of pagan ..read more »
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King Arthur - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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Combining the historical appeal and epic sequences of films like GLADIATOR and BRAVEHEART, director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer provide a sleek twist on the King Arthur legend. Arthur (Clive Owen), a brave Roman/British Christian warrior who leads his band of pagan ..read more »
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She's Gone
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Gary Lucy, Lindsey Coulson
Director: Adrian Shergold
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Ray WInstone stars as Harry Sands in this drama originally seen on ITV1. After learning that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, Harry flies out to find her. Harry soon discovers that his daughter and her best friend are not working as charity workers as he previously believed, but as ..read more »
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Cold Mountain - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
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Cold Mountain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
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Ripley's Game
(2002)
Starring: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone
Director: Liliana Cavani
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The continuing story of Tom Ripley, a career criminal who has amassed his wealth through various illicit activities, including murder. He is married and living in France, when the necessity arises to silence two foes who could reveal his dark past. Concocting an assassination plan, he makes a deal ..read more »
61%
from 6,442 members
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
Director: Fred Schepisi
Certificate:
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Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the ..read more »
64%
from 3,744 members
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Gina McKee
Director: John Hay
Certificate:
This football fairy tale follows the life of young Jimmy Grimble (Lewis McKenzie), a shy Manchester school boy. When an old woman (Jane Lapotaire) rescues Jimmy from being roughed up by bullies, she gives him a pair of boots that belonged to a City legend. Soon Jimmy's on his way to becoming a top ..read more »
70%
from 1,201 member
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Sexy Beast - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate:
Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
73%
from 1,452 member
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Sexy Beast
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate:
Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
70%
from 14,249 members
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Sexy Beast - HD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Certificate:
Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
75%
from 245 members
Not currently released
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Five Seconds To Spare
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Max Beesley, Valentina Cervi
Director: Tom Connolly
Certificate:
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William (Max Beesley) is a young musician who dreams of making it big with his rock band The Alaska Factory. But his bandmates want him to write more commercial music, and their frightening record producer Vincent (Ray Winstone) seems to be sliding further into drug-addicted instability. William's ..read more »
43%
from 242 members
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Fanny And Elvis
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Kerry Fox, Ben Daniels
Director: Kay Mellor
Certificate:
The day that Kate (Kerry Fox) finishes her first novel, her doctor tells her that her childbearing years are almost over. Distraught, she goes to see her husband Rob, but on the way crashes her VW into a Jaguar owned by Dave (Ray Winstone). At the scene of the accident, the two have a massive row, ..read more »
65%
from 723 members
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Final Cut
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost, Jude Law
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Certificate:
Eleven friends gather at the wake of a successful writer Jude (Jude Law). His wife, Sadie (Sadie Frost), explains that Jude was making a film detailing all of their lives. She forces them to watch the film, which makes some startling revelations that eventually pit husbands against wives and ..read more »
59%
from 1,743 member
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Births, Marriages And Deaths
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Mark Strong, Maggie O'Neill
Director: Adrian Shergold
Certificate:
Best mates since school and still inseparable, Alan and Graham decide to give Terry a stag night to remeber. But a late night visit to their former headmaster results in a tragic accident and they quickly discover that life will never be the same again.
62%
from 1,259 member
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Tube Tales
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher
Director: Bob Hoskins, Stephen Hopkins, Charles McDougal
Certificate:
TUBE TALES goes into the London Underground to tell a series of funny and unusual subterranean stories. The film features directors such as Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, and--in their directorial debuts--Ewan McGregor and Jude Law. The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Kelly MacDonald, and ..read more »
54%
from 1,185 member
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The War Zone
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Tilda Swinton, Kate Ashfield
Director: Tim Roth
Certificate:
The molten emotional power that flows from Tim Roth's directorial debut carries multiple messages that sear one's soul. Yet it also faithfully portrays one of the harshest aspects of the relationship between children and parents. Based on an acclaimed novel by Alexander Stuart, The War Zone is an ..read more »
59%
from 2,422 members
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Love, Honour And Obey
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Certificate:
Features three films set in the violent underbelly of London; GREEN STREET, I.D., and LOVE, HONOUR AND OBEY. In GREEN STREET, a young man arrives in the UK from America, following a drug scandal at his university. He soon finds himself involved in the Green Street Elite, a group of football fans ..read more »
67%
from 6,172 members
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The Sea Change
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sean Chapman, Maryam d'Abo, Ray Winstone
Director: Michael Bray
Certificate:
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THE SEA CHANGE is a contemporary romantic feel-good comedy which sees Rupert, a city hot-shot, forced to change dramatically or lose the woman he loves. The course of true love never runs smoothly however as in a desperate effort to return from Spain for his girlfriend Alison's birthday he ..read more »
47%
from 144 members
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Darkness Falls
(1998)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Sherilyn Fenn, Tim Dutton
Director: Gerry Lively
Certificate:
John Barrett's (Ray Winstone, SEXY BEAST) wife Jane (Robin McCaffrey) is having an affair with Mark Driscoll (Tim Dutton), a married man. When Jane and Mark get in a car accident that proves fatal for Jane, John wants revenge, which leads him to travel to the Isle of Man manor house of Mark and his ..read more »
47%
from 445 members
Currently unavailable
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Nil By Mouth
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles
Director: Gary Oldman
Certificate:
A working class British family struggles with their demons -- sometimes violently -- in this intensely emotional drama that marked the directorial debut of actor Gary Oldman. Janet (Laila Morse) is a widowed factory worker who shares her home with her aged mother Kath (Edna Dore), her daughter ..read more »
67%
from 10,674 members
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Face
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steven Waddington
Director: Antonia Bird
Certificate:
A thirty five year old villain gets set to score... big time. But the three million tally is well down and now the thieves are looking to each other for the shortfall...
63%
from 3,850 members
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Ladybird, Ladybird
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Ray Winstone
Director: Ken Loach
Certificate:
A single mother struggles against the British social service system and her own troubled past in director Ken Loach's brutally realistic drama. Coming from a background of abuse and poverty, the hardened Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she falls ..read more »
65%
from 2,036 members
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Tank Malling
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Jason Connery, Ray Winstone, Amanda Donohoe
Director: James Marcus
Certificate:
Reporter Tank Malling has uncovered a story of vice and corruption in the higher echelons of British law and politics. Now, after release from jail with a shattered career, he is determined to bring his story to the headlines.
41%
from 47 members
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Robin Of Sherwood - Jason Connery
(1985)
Starring: Jason Connery, Nickolas Grace, Judi Trott
Director: Gerry Mill
Certificate:
A benchmark of quality television drama in the 1980s and arguably the definitive interpretation of the Robin Hood legend, this BAFTA-winning series is presented here for the first time in High Definition.
Jason Connery stars as Robin Hood in Richard Carpenter's influential and highly acclaimed re-..read more »
95%
from 2 members
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Robin Of Sherwood - Series 2 - Part 2
(1985)
Starring: Michael Praed, Nickolas Grace, Judi Trott
Director: Robert Young
Certificate:
This ROBIN OF SHERWOOD release features more episodes from the second series, starring Michael Praed as the legendary title character. Chosen by a powerul spirit of the forest, Robin must continue to protect the oppressed. Episodes include "The Swords of Wayland (Parts 1 and 2)" and "The Greatest ..read more »
70%
from 454 members
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Robin Of Sherwood - Series 2 - Part 1
(1985)
Starring: Michael Praed, Nickolas Grace, Judi Trott
Director: James Allen
Certificate:
This ROBIN OF SHERWOOD release features the first four episodes of the second series, starring Michael Praed as the legendary title character. Chosen by a powerul spirit of the forest, Robin must continue to protect the oppressed. Episodes include "The Prophecy," "The Children of Israel," "Lord of ..read more »
70%
from 552 members
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Quadrophenia
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Leslie Ash
Director: Franc Roddam
Certificate:
This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at explaining the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R? musical score, including the hit single Love Reign O'er Me. Phil Daniels (replacing the ..read more »
71%
from 6,296 members
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That Summer
(1979)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Tony London, Emily Moore
Director: Harley Cokeliss
Certificate:
Two girls travel to Torquay in Devon from the North of England to work as chamber maids for the summer. They meet two boys, also in Torquay for the summer, one of whom (Winstone) is entered in the "round the bay" swimming race. They have a run in with a gang of Scottish lads, one of whom (Morrison) ..read more »
50%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Quadrophenia - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Leslie Ash
Director: Franc Roddam
Certificate:
It's the Mods versus the Rockers in this striking adaptation of the Who's classic rock opera about alienated youth in the 1960s. The film follows Jimmy (Phil Daniels) an angry young man who feels that he can only achieve a sense of identity and meaning in life through his gang and rock and roll ..read more »
70%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Scum
(1977)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels
Director: Alan Clarke
Certificate:
Featuring both the previously unseen BBC version and the Theatrical version. Controversial story of the cruelty and violence inside a Government Borstal. The film powerfully and sensationally portrays one man's struggle against all odds to be top dog in a system that is intent on breaking his spirit.
71%
from 4,874 members
Not currently released
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Hooligan
Starring: Ray Winstone, Donal MacIntyre
Director: Donal MacIntyre
Certificate:
From the director of "A Very British Gangster", Hooligan is a shocking exposé that tackles the dark side of football from England to Germany, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States.
66%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Number One
on DVD
Starring: Bob Geldof, Alfred Molina, Ray Winstone
Director: Les Blair
Certificate:
Bob Geldof stars as a man trying to survive in the world of snooker halls, small-time crooks, hookers and corrupt cops. Mel Smith appears as a crooked bookie who helps him to the top in the big-time snooker circuit.
49%
from 145 members
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Tony Cottee's Career Goals
on DVD
Starring: Tony Cottee, Russell Brand, Jeff Stelling
Director: Martin Godleman
Certificate: 
Hosted by Russell Brand, this is a celebration of the career of one of the most prolific goalscorers in the top tier of English football. Spanning almost 20 years, Cottee played extended spells at Everton, Leicester City and West Ham United, scoring a phenominal 306 goals, and finishing as top ..read more »
53%
from 16 members
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Ray Winstone facts
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...great acting performance, See a young Leslie Ash before the trout pout episode. Ray Winstone slim and dressed in leather. Its a lot of fun, a lot of good music, a lot of ba...
