James Ottaway

Birth : 1908-07-25, Chertsey, Surrey, England

Death : 1999-06-16

History

James Ottaway was a British film, television and stage actor whose career spanned seven decades.

Movies

The Widowmaker
Mourner
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a woman whose husband has been arrested after going on a killing rampage and the reaction of her local community. It was produced In the United Kingdom by Central Independent Television for the ITV Network and aired on 29 December 1990. It received a nomination for Best Single Drama at the 1991 BAFTA Awards.
The Long Good Friday
Commissionaire
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Absolution
Father Matthews
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
Matchfit
Jack Grace
A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.
Unseen Alibi
Hotel Porter
Dean Stockwell stars as the victim of an elaborately staged murder frame centering around a lover's rendezvous.
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Belobotnikov
A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
That'll Be The Day
Granddad
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
Tales of Unease: Ride, Ride
Mr. Stone
A college artist meets a beautiful, oddly behaving girl at a college dance who insists he gives her a ride home.
Inadmissible Evidence
Watson's Guest
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
The Man Who Finally Died
Rahn - Hotel Manager
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
In the Wake of a Stranger
Johnson
An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Passport to Shame
Assistant Registrar
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.