Sean Scanlan

Sean Scanlan

Birth : 1948-08-18, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Death : 2017-04-17

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Sean Scanlan

Movies

Natalie
An estranged woman travels home to her father's funeral in order to get closure with her prejudiced family.
Whisky Galore
Old Roddy
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
My Life So Far
Andrew Burns
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
Blue Black Permanent
Andrew Cunningham
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
The Big Man
Alan
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Leaving
Big Mac
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.
Tumbledown
Welsh Man
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Kim
Sergeant Major
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
A Sense of Freedom
Jackie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.