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The Negotiator (1994)
Character: Club Barman
A serious heart condition puts an end to Charlie King's job as a "street copper", but he refuses the offer of a desk job and a promotion. When a secret team of negotiators approaches him with the offer of a job, he's intrigued, but who is he dealing with?
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Four in a Million (1982)
Character: N/A
The offstage lives of four club performers who are staying in the same guest house and rubbing their illusions and disillusions together after-hours.
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The Big Picnic (1996)
Character: Morris Burns
A group of young men from Glasgow sign up to fight in the The Great War in a filmed version of Bill Bryden's play.
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It Could Happen to Anybody (1984)
Character: John 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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Flowers of the Forest (1996)
Character: Frank
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
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Complicity (2000)
Character: Molester
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
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Summer Solstice (2005)
Character: Robbie
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
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Heartless (2005)
Character: Benny
Comedy drama about a vain barrister who undergoes a personality change after having a heart transplant. Believing that this could be linked to the character of the donor, he travels to a village in Scotland to find out more about him, and there falls for the man's widow.
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Man to Man (2005)
Character: Angus
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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A Shot at Glory (2000)
Character: SFA Official
The irascible manager of a lower-division Scottish football side must contend with problems off and on the field when his team's impatient American owner demands they win the Scottish Cup or else be relocated to Ireland, while also dealing with the forced arrival of a new star striker - who happens to be his estranged son-in-law, whom he blames for the breakdown of his relationship with his daughter.
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (2005)
Character: Sergeant Scott (as William MacBain)
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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