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Judo Champ (1981)
Character: Mr Stewart
John Stewart is Scottish Junior Judo Champ. He has come to London to live. His new club and his new school want him to win competitions for them. His Dad wants him to bring glory to Scotland. The school bully badly needs teaching a lesson. But John no longer seems to enjoy tough competitive judo where the aim is to beat someone else. He wants something else - a different style, a deeper satisfaction. But few understand.
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The Window (1966)
Character: Ken
Mr. Tremayne was blinded in a car crash. Now, bedridden, he hires Ken to monitor the movements of a woman he is obsessed with. Ken's findings disturb him.
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Father Came Too! (1964)
Character: Actor Playing Guy Fawkes
When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
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Veronique (2002)
Character: Man on Bus
A boy recounts stories of a girl he sees on the school bus.
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Orkney (1971)
Character: Drew
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
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Willie Rough (1976)
Character: Pat Gatens
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
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Ploughman's Share (1979)
Character: Duncan Brewster
When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.
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It Could Happen to Anybody (1984)
Character: Jim McLeod
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
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The Boy Who Wanted Peace (1970)
Character: Mr. Garson
Two underprivileged Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare after discovering crates stuffed with banknotes in the basement they use for a clubhouse.
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Character: Carmichael
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
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The Migrants (1974)
Character: Minister
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
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Nervous Energy (1995)
Character: Tom's Father
Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms nervous energy and in his manic state he suddenly decides to go to Glasgow to visit the family he hasn't seen in ten years. His brother Ian is thoroughly disgusted by his lifestyle and only his mother shows any compassion for him. The visit soon develops into a nightmare as dementia sets in and Tom's health rapidly declines. Finally, events come to a head and Ira has no choice but to force Tom back to London, where he expects him to die at any time. After treatment, Tom gets a brief reprieve, having discovered that his real family is his adopted one in London.
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)
Character: Father Williams
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
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The Secret Adversary (1983)
Character: Dr. Hall
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.
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