Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson

Nacimiento : 1947-09-27, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Lawson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson

Películas

Star Wars: El ascenso de Skywalker
Wedge Antilles
La Resistencia sobreviviente se enfrenta a la Primera Orden una vez más mientras continúa el viaje de Rey, Finn y Poe Dameron. Con el poder y el conocimiento de las generaciones detrás de ellos, comienza la batalla final.
Burns in the USA
Narrator
Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired by him. From Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to Bob Dylan, some of the most significant figures in American politics and culture have cited Burns as an influence.
The machine
Thomson
Inglaterra vive sumida en una Guerra Fría con China. Por esa razón, el Ministerio de Defensa encarga al científico Vincent McCarthy que desarrolle un supersoldado cibernético. La investigación se ve alterada cuando un error informático da vida a su invención, llevando al científico a pedir ayuda a Ava, experta en Inteligencia Artificial.
The Wee Man
Willie Ferris
La historia real sobre Paul Ferris
Parade's End
Miniserie televisiva de 5 episodios. Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX. Christopher Tietjens es un aristócrata conservador, leal a su infiel y cínica esposa, a la que sigue unido en nombre del honor familiar y personal. Christopher se enamora de una joven sufragista, pero entonces el mundo entra en guerra y él es llamado a filas. Mientras Inglaterra se desmorona, Christopher descubre que la terrible vida en las trincheras y los crueles juegos de poder de la clase alta no son tan diferentes.
Broken
Mr. Buckley
Una niña londinense de once años queda profundamente traumatizada tras presenciar un hecho muy violento en su vecindario. Su padre intenta paliar en lo posible el sufrimiento de la pequeña.
Perfect sense
Boss
En Glasgow, Escocia, mientras una misteriosa pandemia comienza a extenderse por todo el mundo, Susan, una brillante epidemióloga, se enamora de Michael, un hábil cocinero.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
Production Assistant
The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the Bell Rock. For nearly 150 years, Robert Stevenson, his sons and grandsons designed many of the lighthouses around Scotland's coast. His sons Alan, David and Thomas also became lighthouse engineers. His grandsons (David's sons) David Alan Stevenson and Charles Stevenson designed lighthouses too.
Above Their Station
Chief Constable Keith Boone
One-off comedy special. On the mean streets of Vange in Essex, naive police community support officer Len is the victim of a cruel hoax perpetrated by 'proper copper' PC Preston. Meanwhile, there have been a series of bizarre thefts at the station and PCSO Kelly thinks she knows who is responsible. Fellow 'plastic policeman' Perry doesn't know who to help - Len, Kelly or retiring colleague Chester.
Enid
Kenneth Waters
Drama biográfico sobre la vida de la escritora Enid Blyton, una mujer que supo captar como nadie la imaginación de los niños. Consiguió triunfar tras superar una infancia muy dura que en nada se parecía al ambiente que retrata en sus libros.
Breaking the Mould
Alexander Fleming
A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology
No Holds Bard
Miekel
Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.
The Thieving Headmistress
Father Plunkett
A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.
The Black Death
Narrator
The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out.
Lucky Jim
Julius Gore-Urqhart
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Solid Geometry
Director
La visión del mundo de un joven exitoso se invierte cuando hereda los diarios de su tatarabuelo, y comienza a perseguir las teorías geométricas místicas que contiene. Basado en un cuento de Ian McEwan.
Solid Geometry
Writer
La visión del mundo de un joven exitoso se invierte cuando hereda los diarios de su tatarabuelo, y comienza a perseguir las teorías geométricas místicas que contiene. Basado en un cuento de Ian McEwan.
The Real Hughie Green
Himself - Narrator
TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Captain 'Dreadnought' Foster
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
A Royal Scandal
Henry Brougham
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
Fried Crumbed Brains
Born Kicking
Victor Grace
Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.
Bejewelled
Alistair
Un grupo de amigas comienzan a investigar la desaparición de una joyas muy valiosas. (FILMAFFINITY)
One Way Out
Bernard
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
The Zip
Eric
A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?
The Chain
Keith
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Bitter Cherry
Set in an open prison, where a former trade union activist subjects his more passive cell mate to an incessant barrage of union mumbo-jumbo.
El retorno del Jedi
Wedge
Luke Skywalker y la princesa Leia deben viajar a Tatooine para liberar a Han Solo. Para conseguirlo, deben infiltrarse en la peligrosa guarida de Jabba the Hutt, el gángster más temido de la galaxia. Una vez reunidos, el equipo recluta a tribus de Ewoks para combatir a las fuerzas imperiales en los bosques de la luna de Endor. Mientras tanto, el Emperador y Darth Vader conspiran para convertir a Luke al lado oscuro, pero el joven Skywalker, por su parte, está decidido a reavivar el espíritu del Jedi en su padre. La guerra civil galáctica culmina en un último enfrentamiento entre las fuerzas rebeldes unificadas y una segunda Estrella de la Muerte, indefensa e incompleta, en una batalla que decidirá el destino de la galaxia.
Un tipo genial
Urquhart
En un idílico pueblo costero escocés Macintyre (Peter Riegert), el enviado de una compañia petrolífera, negocia la compra de todas las propiedades de la zona para construir una refinería. Los habitantes del pueblo ven una oportunidad para enriquecerse, pero la obstinación del viejo Ben (Fulton Mackay), propietario de una playa, impide el trato. Mac sólo puede ofrecerle dinero y la playa es todo lo que Ben ambiciona. Mientras, el recién llegado se sumerge en un modo de vida que se mueve a un ritmo pausado, donde el paisaje y la comunidad lo envuelven en sus lazos.
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Felix
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
El imperio contraataca
Wedge Antilles
Tras un ataque sorpresa de las tropas imperiales a las bases camufladas de la alianza rebelde, Luke Skywalker, en compañía de R2D2, parte hacia el planeta Dagobah en busca de Yoda, el último maestro Jedi, para que le enseñe los secretos de la Fuerza. Mientras, Han Solo, la princesa Leia, Chewbacca, y C3PO esquivan a las fuerzas imperiales y piden refugio al antiguo propietario del Halcón Milenario, Lando Calrissian, en la ciudad minera de Bespin, donde les prepara una trampa urdida por Darth Vader.
Fearless Frank
The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.
Holocausto 2000
2nd Journalist
Charles Caine, es un alto ejecutivo que planea construir una planta termonuclear en Oriente Medio. Una periodista lo percatará de que su propio hijo Angel puede llegar a ser el Anticristo. (FILMAFFINITY)
La máscara de hierro
Claude
Francia vive bajo el reinado de Luis XIV, un monarca débil y despótico. Pero el célebre mosquetero D'Artagnan descubre un gran secreto: el rey tiene un hermano gemelo, llamado Felipe, nacido pocos minutos antes que él, a quien el monarca mantiene encerrado en la Bastilla para que no pueda reclamar el trono que en buena lid le pertenece, con el rostro cubierto por una máscara de hierro. D'Artagnan se propone entonces devolver el trono a su legítimo dueño.
La guerra de las galaxias
Red Two (Wedge Antilles)
La princesa Leia, líder del movimiento rebelde que desea reinstaurar la República en la galaxia en los tiempos ominosos del Imperio, es capturada por las malévolas Fuerzas Imperiales, capitaneadas por el implacable Darth Vader, el sirviente más fiel del emperador. El intrépido Luke Skywalker, ayudado por Han Solo, capitán de la nave espacial "El Halcón Milenario", y los androides, R2D2 y C3PO, serán los encargados de luchar contra el enemigo y rescatar a la princesa para volver a instaurar la justicia en el seno de la Galaxia.
Providence
Dave Woodford
Recluido en su habitación, Clive, un escritor enfermo y malhumorado, hace y deshace una historia cambiando situaciones y personajes a su antojo, mientras bebe sin parar en una inacabable noche. Claud es un tiránico y justiciero fiscal de la alta burguesía. Sonia, una mujer insatisfecha, se siente incapaz de dejar a su marido. Kevin es un soldado iluminado que lucha por el derecho a la eutanasia. Elena es una amante ajada que sabe que va morir.
The Paradise Run
Terrorist
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.
Jumping Bean Bag
Snare
At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.