Scot Williams
Nacimiento : 1972-11-29, Liverpool, England, UK
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Scot Williams (born 29 November 1972), is an English actor, writer and producer for stage, film and television.
As an actor, Williams made his film debut in the 1994 Iain Softley film Backbeat, in which he played the role of The Beatle's original drummer Pete Best. Subsequently he later discovered that he was a distant relative of the late Alun Owen, who in 1964 received an academy award nomination for his Beatles screenplay "A Hard Day's Night".
In 1995 Williams played the lead role of Shaun Caine in the Jonathan Harvey play Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club. The play premiered at London's Donmar Warehouse before later transferring to The Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly.
In 1996 he was given the role of Joe Glover in the powerful television drama Hillsborough. Written by the legendary Jimmy McGovern, Hillsborough was based on the football stadium disaster of 1989 in which 96 Liverpool Football Club supporters unlawfully died and directed by the BAFTA and Emmy winning Charles McDougall. It went on to win dozens of awards around the world, including the 1997 Best Single drama BAFTA award.
In 1999 he played the role of 'Buddy' alongside Lisa Stansfield, Rita Tushingham and Alexei Sayle in the musical "comedy" Swing as well as the part of 'Patrick Callaghan' a one legged heroin addicted informer in the gritty crime "drama" Liverpool One. On playing a one-legged herion addict Scot said "it was a role I was destined to play".
2003/04 saw Williams feature in a trilogy of films written and directed by Peter Greenaway, called The Tulse Luper Suitcases. The first of which "The Moab Story" was an official selection for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. As well as a return to the stage in Chris Honer's award winning production of the Arthur Miller classic "All My Sons" at Manchester's Library Theatre.
In 2005 Scot played the lead role of the American Art authenticator 'Patrick Donovan', alongside Rutger Hauer and Malcolm McDowell in the Venetian set thriller "Tempesta" and also co-starred with Jesse Bradford, Sienna Guillory and Steven Berkoff in the horror film "Perfect Life"
In 2009 he starred in "Clubbed" alongside Colin Salmon and Maxine Peake, playing the iconic bleached blonde lunatic 'Sparky'. In Adrian Vitoria's 'The Crew' an adaptation of Kevin Sampson's novel "Outlaws" Scot played the lead role of 'Ged Brennen', a Liverpool gangster coming to terms with the changing face of crime. 2009 also saw Scot play the lead role of ex-Irish priest 'Sheamy O'Brien' in Maeve Murphy's "Beyond The Fire" alongside Cara Seymour. The film respectfully examined the loving relationship between two victims of sexual abuse and went on to win Best Film at the 2009 London Independent Film Awards. As well as this, Scot also popped up in the British gangster flick "Dead Man Running" alongside Tamer Hassan, Brenda Blethyn and 50 Cent.
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Ellis Van Camp
Alex, un asesino a sueldo, descubre que se ha convertido en un objetivo después de que se niega a completar un trabajo para una peligrosa organización criminal. Con el sindicato del crimen y el FBI persiguiéndolo, Alex tiene las habilidades para mantenerse a la vanguardia, excepto por una cosa: está luchando con una pérdida de memoria severa que afecta todos sus movimientos. Alex debe cuestionar cada una de sus acciones y en quién puede confiar en última instancia.
Paul Lyndsay
Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
Jason Brown
Después de que su padre muere en un altercado con matones borrachos, el mundo de Salah se hunde en la oscuridad. Obligado a dirigir la tienda de kebabs de la familia solo, Salah se esfuerza por manejar la vida nocturna cada vez más ruidosa y cuando una pelea con un cliente enojado va fatalmente mal, se encuentra con un cadáver en sus manos. Sin fe en las autoridades, Salah se deshace del cuerpo en el lugar que mejor conoce ... los kebabs.
Mat
Kate is an out of work actress working in a shop, until that is, she is made redundant. In a week from hell Kate's boyfriend leaves her, the shop goes bust and rent and gas bills have not been paid. Inspired by the notorious outlaw Bonnie Parker, Kate gathers a gang from her shop assistant friends and comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but who is her Clyde?
Michael
Cuatro amigos ingleses que se dedican a robar se quedan tirados en Lituania. Para volver a casa tropiezan con graves dificultades: las diferencias culturales, el trato con criminales, prostitutas, policías corruptos y cerveza barata.
Johnny
El ex convicto Johnny se ve obligado a tirar de un atraco con el que no quiere tener nada que ver. El jefe de la mafia "Shrewd" Eddie tiene un millón de dólares sucios en efectivo escondidos en su casa, esperando ser robados. Pero lo que Johnny no sabe es que otros siete criminales muy peligrosos también tienen planes de robar el dinero ...
Freddy Langham
About college students that experience horrifying visions from the past while undergoing a fraternity initiation.
Sheamy O'Brien
From tragedy comes a burning love, but can passion survive the torment of a sinister past
Sparky
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
Ged Brennan
Basada en la novela Outlaws, de Kevin Sampson, Instinto Asesino es una película de acción que sigue la tradición de algunas de las películas del realizador Guy Ritchie, como Rocknrolla o Snatch: Cerdos y Diamantes. Tras una década de atracos meticulosamente planificados, el respetado jefe del crimen Ged Brennan ha aprendido que nunca se deben tomar riesgos innecesarios. Pero cuando un atraco reciente falla y un alto capo de las drogas es brutalmente asesinado, provocando una guerra de cuadrillas, el mundo de Ged se convierte en un caos. Afrontando la traición sobre varios frentes, incluyendo los más cercanos a él, y con el atraco más grande a punto de cristalizar, Ged tiene que confiar en sus instintos de la calle para sobrevivir...
Percy Hockmeister
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Patrick Donovan
An American art appraiser, Patrick Donovan, is sent to Venice to evaluate three paintings belonging to the famous Galleria dell'Accademia.
Percy Hockmeister
Las aventuras de Tulse Luper continúan desde Amberes. Comienza la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Tulse Luper es un prisionero que recorre el norte de Europa. Se convierte en espía en la mansión en Vaux (Francia) que se ha convertido en una clínica Aria. En Estrasburgo, es obligado a ser acomodador en el cine Arc-en-Ciel y le obligarán a vestirse de mujer para hacerse pasar por una costurera en la residencia burguesa de una anatomista obsesiva y fanática de Ingres en la localidad de Dinard, en la costa francesa.
Percy Hockmeister
"Antwerp" continues telling the picaresque adventures through the world of multi disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival as a separate title located between the first and the second part of the Greenanway Tulse Luper Trilogy.
Percy Hockmeister
Primera entrega de la larga y enigmática historia del escritor Tulse Luper (JJ Feild), que abarca desde 1928 hasta el 1989. Luper se pasa la vida de prisión en prisión (en total 16). La causa de su encarcelamiento es su relación con una familia germano-americana que está a punto de llegar a Europa con la intención de hacer turbios negocios, aprovechando la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945).
Pete Best
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Buddy
When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
Joe Glover
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Pete Best
Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), John Lennon (Ian Hart), Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), George Harrison (Chris O'Neill) y Pete Best (Scot Williams) son miembros de un grupo de rock de Liverpool: The Beatles. En Hamburgo los contratan para tocar en un club. En la ciudad alemana conocen a un joven artista y a Astrid Kirchherr (Sheryl Lee), una guapa fotógrafa cuya relación con Stuart, pondrá en peligro la estabilidad del grupo.
