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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 130317-Edge-of-Darkness.html">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 Pri Mary School and then he was educated at Edmonton County, which had changed from a gram Mar 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 Don Mar 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 130317-Edge-of-Darkness.html">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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7 September 2012
-Actor Ray Winstone has vowed to hit the gym and get in shape after realising age is catching up with him on the set of new action movie The Sweeney.-The Departed star, 55, plays a hard-bitten cop in the big screen version of the hit 1970s TV show, and he was determin
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Ray Winstone movie caused Rihanna security panic -
7 September 2012
-Rihanna was caught up in a scare during filming of Ray Winstone's new action movie after her security team mistook on-set gunfire for an attack on the singer.-The actor plays tough cop Jack Regan in The Sweeney, based on the classic 1970s cop show of the same name.-
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7 September 2012
-Actor Ray Winstone shed more than 21 pounds (9.5 kilograms) by embarking on a strict diet and exercise regimen as he prepared for his role in new movie The Sweeney.-Winstone plays a street-hardened cop in the crime drama, which is based on the hit 1970s show of the s
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Elfie Hopkins - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Jaime Winstone, Ray Winstone, Aneurin Barnard
Director: Ryan Andrews
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Elfie Hopkins, a 22 year-old animal-loving slacker, stoner, and wannabe detective, lives in a sleepy hunting village. Haunted by the death of her mother, Elfie seeks solace and inspiration from the old school detectives in The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown. She entertains herself, along with her ..read more »
 
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The Sweeney - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Damian Lewis, Ray Winstone, Allen Leech
Director: Nick Love
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Nick Love directs this big screen modern-day revamp of the classic British 1970s television series. Ray Winstone and pop star Plan B (aka Ben Drew) star as Regan and Carter, the iconic cop duo played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in the original version. When an armed robbery at a jewellery ..read more »
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Ashes
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jim Sturgess, Luke Evans
Director: Mat Whitecross
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Jamie (Jim Sturgess), after many months of searching, finally tracks down his estranged father (Ray Winstone), and together they embark on a dangerous road trip. However, with Frank becoming more unstable and Jamie s motives unclear, the journey gradually unravels their dark and sinister pasts. ..read more »
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, David Suchet
Director: Brian Kirk
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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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Elfie Hopkins
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Jaime Winstone, Ray Winstone, Aneurin Barnard
Director: Ryan Andrews
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Elfie Hopkins, a 22 year-old animal-loving slacker, stoner, and wannabe detective, lives in a sleepy hunting village. Haunted by the death of her mother, Elfie seeks solace and inspiration from the old school detectives in The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown. She entertains herself, along with her ..read more »
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The Sweeney
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Damian Lewis, Ray Winstone, Allen Leech
Director: Nick Love
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Nick Love directs this big screen modern-day revamp of the classic British 1970s television series. Ray Winstone and pop star Plan B (aka Ben Drew) star as Regan and Carter, the iconic cop duo played by John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in the original version. When an armed robbery at a jewellery ..read more »
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Rango - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Isla Fisher, Stephen Root
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Children's CGI-animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Timothy Olyphant. Rango (voiced by Depp), a pet chameleon who has long harboured dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, is offered a chance to prove himself when he becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert ..read more »
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Hooligan
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Donal MacIntyre, Ray Winstone, Sean Bean
Director: Donal MacIntyre
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Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre directs this documentary examining how football hooliganism, once a very British disease, has gone global. With football violence having been brought successfully under control in Britain since its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, there has recently been a ..read more »
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from 409 members
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Rango
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Maile Flanagan, John Cothran Jr., Hemky Madera
Director: Gore Verbinski
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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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Hugo - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as Hugo, an orphan who lives in the hidden nooks of a train station in 1920s Paris. With the help of his friend, Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), he sets ..read more »
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The Hot Potato
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jack Huston, John Lynch
Director: Tim Lewiston
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Ray Winstone and Jack Huston star in this crime comedy thriller based on a true story. In 1969, Kenny (Winstone) and Danny (Huston) discover a potato-shaped lump of uranium and, along with Danny's girlfriend, Carole (Lois Winstone), embark on a journey that takes them across Europe in search of a ..read more »
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The Hot Potato - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jack Huston, John Lynch
Director: Tim Lewiston
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Ray Winstone and Jack Huston star in this crime comedy thriller based on a true story. In 1969, Kenny (Winstone) and Danny (Huston) discover a potato-shaped lump of uranium and, along with Danny's girlfriend, Carole (Lois Winstone), embark on a journey that takes them across Europe in search of a ..read more »
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Hooligan - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Donal MacIntyre, Ray Winstone, Sean Bean
Director: Donal MacIntyre
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Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre directs this documentary examining how football hooliganism, once a very British disease, has gone global. With football violence having been brought successfully under control in Britain since its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, there has recently been a ..read more »
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from 34 members
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Ben Hur - The Mini Series
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Lucía Jiménez, Simón Andreu, Ray Winstone
Director: Steve Shill
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Two-part mini-series adapted by Alan Sharp from the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace, originally adapted for the screen in 1959 as the Charlton Heston-starring classic. Joseph Morgan stars in this version as Prince Judah Ben-Hur, the young Jewish prince and charioteer whose refusal to capitulate to the ..read more »
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from 420 members
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44 Inch Chest
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ian McShane, John Hurt, Ray Winstone
Director: Malcolm Venville
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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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Edge of Darkness - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Danny Huston, Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Campbell
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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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Tracker
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Andy Anderson, Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison
Director: Ian Sharp
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New Zealand-set period thriller starring Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison. It is 1903, and Arjan (Winstone), a South African Boer War veteran, is under contract to hunt down Kereama (Morrison), a Maori sailor accused of killing a British soldier. As the two embark on a cat-and-mouse pursuit across ..read more »
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13 - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, Emmanuelle Chirqui
Director: Gela Babluani
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High stakes drama starring Sam Riley, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Ray Winstone. The family of Vince Ferro (Riley) are in grave need of money to pay medical bills. When Vince hears of the death of a man who was due to start a well paid job, he steals a letter addressed to the man and heads to ..read more »
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Edge of Darkness
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Danny Huston, Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Campbell
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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
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, Emmanuelle Chirqui
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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Tracker - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Andy Anderson, Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison
Director: Ian Sharp
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New Zealand-set period thriller starring Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison. It is 1903, and Arjan (Winstone), a South African Boer War veteran, is under contract to hunt down Kereama (Morrison), a Maori sailor accused of killing a British soldier. As the two embark on a cat-and-mouse pursuit across ..read more »
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44 Inch Chest - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley, Ian McShane
Director: Malcolm Venville
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British gangster drama penned by the writers of 'Sexy Beast', featuring an ensemble cast that includes Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joanne Whalley and Tom Wilkinson. Ray Winstone stars as Colin Diamond, a London gangster who enlists the help of his friends to kidnap his wife's young French ..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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Fool's Gold
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland
Director: Andy Tennant
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'Romancing the Stone' style madcap adventure. Ben 'Finn' Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey) is a down-on-his-luck fortune hunter in search of $500 million worth of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, contained in 40 chests lost at sea in 1715. His long-suffering wife, Tess (Kate Hudson), in search of a more ..read more »
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Compulsion
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Parminder K. Nagra, Ray Winstone
Director: Sarah Harding
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ITV drama starring Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra. Cambridge graduate Anjika Indrani (Nagra) is happily settled with her boyfriend when her strict father tries to force her into an arranged marriage. In desperation Anjika turns to her father's shady employee Don Flowers (Winstone) for help. But ..read more »
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Fool's Gold - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Kevin Hart, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Andy Tennant
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'Romancing the Stone' style madcap adventure. Ben 'Finn' Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey) is a down-on-his-luck fortune hunter in search of $500 million worth of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, contained in 40 chests lost at sea in 1715. His long-suffering wife, Tess (Kate Hudson), in search of a more ..read more »
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Beowulf - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Director's cut of the epic adventure starring Ray Winstone and Anthony Hopkins. In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf (Winstone). After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother (Angelina Jolie), ..read more »
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from 8,611 members
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Beowulf
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Vincent - S02 E03
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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Vincent hooks up with a former lover as he investigates the murder that looks like the work of a serial killer. His instincts prompt him to delve deeper into the case when the suspects admits to all the killings except one - the latest murder...
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Vincent - S02 E02
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Terry McDonough
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Following an investigation on a call girl who drugs her clients to steal from them, Vincent helps protect a community centre run by a Catholic priest. After the building is set on fire by thugs the priest is badly burnt. Vincent must use all his powers to find out who's really behind the violence...
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All In The Game
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Idris Elba, Danny Dyer
Director: Jim O'Hanlon
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Ray Winstone stars in this hard-hitting television drama taking a look at the seedier side of 'the beautiful game'. Winstone plays Frankie, a larger-than-life bully-boy football manager who, together with his son, has made a nice life for himself in the game - with fast cars and big houses, not ..read more »
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Vincent - S02 E04
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Jeremy Lovering
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A single father fears for the safety of his young daughter when his home is terrorised by an unknown assailant. He asks for Vincent's help and the PI asks Beth to pose as the nanny. He must uncover a link with the past if he's to find out who's behind the attacks.
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Get Back - Series 1 And 2
(2 discs)
(2006)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet, Ray Winstone
Director: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
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All 15 episodes of the 1990s sitcom starring Ray Winstone as Martin Sweet, an East End boy made good who now runs an upmarket menswear shop in the West End. Martin has everything he wants: a beautiful wife (Carol Harrison); two daughters, Prudence (Jane Booker) and Eleanor (an early appearance by ..read more »
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Director: Martin Scorsese, Martin Scors
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In South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime, young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has ..read more »
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Breaking And Entering
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ray Winstone, Martin Freeman
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Class-based drama directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Jude Law. Will Francis (Law) is a young London architect living a stable, if dreary existence with his girlfriend Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her behaviourally challenged daughter Bea. When his posh, arty offices are repeatedly burgled, ..read more »
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The Proposition - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Tom Budge, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone
Director: John Hillcoat
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John Hillcoat directs this violent western set in the Australian outback, from an original screenplay by musician Nick Cave. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is presented with an impossible choice by ruthless lawman Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). To save his younger brother from the gallows, he must ..read more »
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Vincent - S02 E01
(2006)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Terry McDonough
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Raymond is jailed for murdering a maid at the Central Hotel but his wife thinks he was paid to take the rap and asks the team for help. After a second body turns up in Vincent's flat he's framed for murder and sent to prison. Then the team find a set of photos pointing to the identity of the real ..read more »
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Sweeney Todd
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Walker, David Warner
Director: Dave Moore
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Ray Winstone stars as the sinister 'demon barber of Fleet Street' in this BBC dramatisation of the legend. In 18th century London, the emotionally damaged Sweeney Todd has managed to put his brutal upbringing behind him, including a spell in the notorious Newgate prison, in order to open a well-..read more »
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Everything
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ed Deedigan, Katherine Clisby, Lindy Sellars
Director: Richard Hawkins
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Ray Winstone stars in this dark British drama as Richard, a mysterious stranger who starts visiting Soho prostitute Naomi (Jan Graveson) without once asking her for sexual favours. Naomi becomes intrigued by Richard, as he seems to know so much about her motivations and her feelings, and as their ..read more »
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Vincent - S01 E03
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Roger Gartland
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Lottery winner Sheena asks Vincent to investigate the death of syndicate member Andrea. Sheena is worried that her brother Malcolm, who has a personality disorder, will be suspected as he was following her before her death. Then Vincent's ex tells him she's pregnant with DCI Driscoll's baby.
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Vincent - S01 E01
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Joe Absolom, Angel Coulby
Director: Peter Lydon
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Vincent Gallagher runs a detective agency with Beth, John and Robert. When Gary Da Silva asks them to shadow his wife, whom he suspects of having an affair, Vincent understands as his wife has left him. After Vincent and Beth see her in a club with another man, Vincent tells Gary sends him crazy...
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Vincent - S01 E02
(2005)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Suranne Jones, Joe Absolom
Director: Peter Lydon
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Edward Harper asks Vincent to investigate the death of his son Ian who was knifed in a club. His pal James, the son of the club's owner, is the prime suspect. But the police can't touch him due to lack of evidence. So Beth becomes a croupier at the club but the owner becomes suspicious...
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
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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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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's found thousands of pounds in her husband's wardrobe. They're also helping a man whose son is in with the wrong crowd. It seems the two cases are linked so Vincent sets a trap to incriminate the woman at the centre - but starts falling for her...
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She's Gone
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Lindsey Coulson, Gary Lucy
Director: Adrian Shergold
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Harry Sands (Ray Winstone) flies to Istanbul to find his missing daughter, Olivia (Rebecca Clarke). To his horror he discovers that she was working as a nightclub dancer and not the charity worker that he was led to believe. The search turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own ..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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The full-blooded version of the big-budget action adventure based on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The film, directed by Antoine Fuqua, attempts to place King Arthur within the historical context of his time (around 500 AD), and take into account many more historical ..read more »
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King Arthur
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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Big-budget action adventure based on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The film attempts to place King Arthur within the historical context of his time (around 500 AD), and take into account many more historical and political facts of the era than previous ..read more »
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Henry VIII
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Mark Strong, Ray Winstone, Charles Dance
Director: Pete Travis
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Ray Winstone brings history's most beguiling monarch to life in this story of Henry VIII revealing the destruction Henry often left in his wake during his extraordinary 38 year reign. From the moment Henry Tudor casts aside his faithful wife Katherine of Aragon for the bewitching and determined ..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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Sweeping American Civil War drama based on the novel by Charles Frazier, directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley). Jude Law stars as Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier who is slowly making the perilous journey back to his home town of Cold Mountain in North ..read more »
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Cold Mountain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
Certificate:
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Sweeping American Civil War drama based on the novel by Charles Frazier, directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley). Jude Law stars as Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier who is slowly making the perilous journey back to his home town of Cold Mountain in North ..read more »
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Ripley's Game
(2002)
Starring: Chiara Caselli, Ray Winstone, Dougray Scott
Director: Liliana Cavani
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John Malkovich stars as master criminal Tom Ripley in this follow-up to 'The Talented Mr Ripley'. Now an art dealer living in Northern Italy, Ripley attends a party given by Jonathan Trevanny (Dougray Scott) and is angered when the host makes a critical remark about his dress sense. Determined to ..read more »
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Last Orders
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Helen Mirren, Michael Caine
Director: Fred Schepisi
Certificate:
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When one of a group of lifelong friends dies, his buddies are left to carry out his last wishes: to take his ashes and dispose of them off the pier in the seaside town of Margate. As their sentimental journey begins and their own emotional mysteries unfold, they try to come to terms with Jack's ..read more »
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Sexy Beast
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Gangster Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) has now retired to a villa on the Costa Del Sol, where he lives with ex-porn star wife DeeDee (Amanda Redman) and spends his time lazing by the pool and dining out with friends. All is well until Gary's psychotic former colleague Dan Logan (Ben Kingsley) arrives in ..read more »
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Sexy Beast - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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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 »
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jane Lapotaire, Gina McKee
Director: John Hay
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Jimmy Grimble (Lewis McKenzie) is a footballer with no confidence in himself and, to make matters worse, his mum (Gina Mckee) has asked the wrong guy to move into their house, instead of the guy she really wants (Ray Winstone). His luck changes when he meets an old baglady who gives him a pair of ..read more »
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Love, Honour And Obey
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Ray Winstone, Denise Van Outen
Director: Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano
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Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is an Eastender fed up with his boring job as a courier. When his best friend (Jude Law) offers him a job working for his uncle (Ray Winstone), a notorious gangland leader, Jonny jumps at the chance and is soon part of the most feared gang in North London. But Jonny hungers ..read more »
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Final Cut
(1999)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost, Jude Law
Director: Ray Burdis, Dominic Anciano
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This acclaimed drama stars a host of up-and-coming British stars, all of whom use their own names throughout. After the death of Jude (Jude Law), when his friends gather to commemorate his life his wife Sadie (Sadie Frost) insists that they all watch a special film of Jude's. However, the footage - ..read more »
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The War Zone
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kate Ashfield, Ray Winstone, Freddie Cunliffe
Director: Tim Roth
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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 »
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Fanny And Elvis
(1999)
Starring: David Morrissey, Ray Winstone, Ben Daniels
Director: Kay Mellor
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Kate Dickson (Kerry Fox) is on her way to meet her husband, when she crashes her car into Rob's (Ray Winstone) prized Jaguar. After a screaming row in a car park, the two go their separate ways, only to discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. Since Rob has been kicked out of ..read more »
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Tube Tales
(1999)
Starring: Kelly MacDonald, Ray Winstone, Dexter Fletcher
Director: Charles McDougal, Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins
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A collection of short films set on or around the London underground. Actors Tom Bell, Ray Winstone, Denise Van Outen, Dexter Fletcher and Lee Ross all lend their talents in front of the camera, while a number of their colleagues - including Bob Hoskins, Armando Iannucci, Jude Law and Ewan McGregor -..read more »
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Nil By Mouth
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Charlie Creed-Miles, Kathy Burke
Director: Gary Oldman
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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 »
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Darkness Falls
(1998)
Starring: Michael Praed, Ray Winstone, Bryan Pringle
Director: Gerry Lively
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John Barrett (Ray Winstone) is a man obsessed with revenge. His wife (Robin McCaffrey) lies in a coma, and he is determined to ruin the life of Mark Driscoll (Tim Dutton), the man he suspects was having an affair with her. After breaking into his house, he confronts Driscoll's wife Sally (Sherilyn ..read more »
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Face
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Damon Albarn
Director: Antonia Bird
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Thirty-five-year-old thief Ray (Robert Carlyle) has planned a payroll heist with his partner Dave (Ray Winstone) that will set them up for life. However, after executing the robbery with Stevie (Steven Waddington), Julian (Philip Davis) and Jason (Damon Albarn), cracks appear in the team over the ..read more »
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Ladybird, Ladybird
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Vladimir Vega, Ray Winstone, Crissy Rock
Director: Ken Loach
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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 »
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Tank Malling
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: John Conteh, Ray Winstone, Amanda Donohoe
Director: James Marcus
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British crime thriller starring Ray Winstone. John 'Tank' Malling (Winstone) is a tough investigative reporter whose research into the powerful but corrupt organisation The Moral Revivalists leads him to the door of celebrated Tory politician Sir Robert Knights. Before Tank has time to prove the ..read more »
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Robin Of Sherwood - Series 3 - Episodes 1-3
(1985)
Starring: Phil Rose, Ray Winstone, Clive Mantle
Director: Gerry Mill
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Opening three episodes from the third series based on the legendary outlaw. In 'Herne's Son (Parts 1 and 2)', following the death of the original Robin of Loxley (as played by now-departed Michael Praed in the first two series), the Merry Men have disbanded and Marion has been pardoned by the King. ..read more »
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Robin Of Sherwood - Series 2 - Part 2
(1985)
Starring: Phil Rose, Ray Winstone, Clive Mantle
Director: Robert Young
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Closing three episodes from the second series based on the legendary outlaw. In 'The Swords of Wayland (Parts 1 and 2)', Robin (Michael Praed) leads his men to defend a distant village from swordsmen the Hounds of Lucifer. 'The Greatest Enemy' sees the Sheriff (Nickolas Grace) making a monumental ..read more »
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Robin Of Sherwood - Series 2 - Part 1
(1985)
Starring: Phil Rose, Ray Winstone, Clive Mantle
Director: James Allen
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Opening four episodes from the second series based on the legendary outlaw. In 'The Prophecy', Prince John arrives in Nottingham with a masked captive, whom Robin (Michael Praed) and his band determine to rescue. 'The Children of Israel' sees the Sheriff attempting to murder a Jewish merchant to ..read more »
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Robin Of Sherwood - Jason Connery
(1985)
Starring: Jason Connery, Nickolas Grace, Judi Trott
Director: Gerry Mill
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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 »
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Quadrophenia
(1979)
Starring: Kate Williams, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick
Director: Franc Roddam
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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 »
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That Summer
(1979)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Tony London, Emily Moore
Director: Harley Cokeliss
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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 »
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Quadrophenia - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Kate Williams, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick
Director: Franc Roddam
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Jimmy (Phil Daniels) is a young Mod looking for pills, thrills and a sense of identity in 60s London. His increasing reliance on the buzz provided by the gang mentality of his friends reaches its height in the Brighton Bank Holiday confrontations with the Rockers. An inevitable comedown follows ..read more »
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Scum
(1977)
Starring: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Phil Daniels
Director: Alan Clarke
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This damning indictment of life in a British borstal was made for the BBC but deemed too controversial for broadcast. Director Alan Clarke reworked his material for the big screen in order to give it a public airing, and this is the result. Stalwart British actors Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels got ..read more »
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Tony Cottee's Career Goals
on DVD
Starring: Tony Cottee, Russell Brand, Jeff Stelling
Director: Martin Godleman
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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 »
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Lenny Blue
on DVD
Starring: Ray Winstone, Jake Wood, Charlie Creed-Miles
Director: Andy Wilson
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Television drama starring Ray Winstone. Lenny Milton (Winstone) is a Detective Constable hated by his colleagues. He also has a long-running feud with a drug-trafficker, Barry Hindes, and is obsessed with bringing him to justice. When a friend of Milton's son dies due to taking heroin and a drug-..read more »
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Vincent - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Ray Winstone, Joe Absolom, Adam Ray
Director: Roger Gartland, Peter Lydon
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All four episodes from the second series of the ITV drama starring Ray Winstone as the eponymous private investigator Vincent Gallagher - a headstrong, tough and passionate man whose methods often bring him into conflict with the authorities. Set in Manchester, the series follows Vincent and his ..read more »
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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...
