Russell Hunter
Nacimiento : 1925-02-18, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Muerte : 2004-02-26
Historia
Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of Lonely in the TV series Callan.
Himself (archive)
Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
Ian Sinclair
Sixty years ago Ian Sinclair was a revolutionary leader. Today he is in an old folks' home, but has not lost his sense of humour, or his appetite for the struggle. In protest at the proposed closure of the home, the old socialist firebrand embarks upon a hunger strike that ends up having wide-range repercussions.
Old McNickle
Horace, es un ladrón sin una pizca de espíritu navideño. Cumple condena en una cárcel y su única ilusión es recuperar un dinero que robó y tiene escondido en unos almacenes. Consigue escapar de la prisión disfrazado de Papá Noel pero varios niños lo ven y creen que es el verdadero Santa Claus...
Alfred Coombs
Holmes (Peter Cushing) y el Dr. Watson (John Mills) reflexionan sobre casos en que las víctimas parecen haber sido asustadas hasta la muerte.
1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.
Lonely
S.I.S. agent David Callan is brought out of retirement for one last assignment.
Uvanov
The Doctor and Leela must catch a killer on a vast mining ship run by robots and humans.
Old Fred
When his brother vanishes without a trace, American Robert Stone goes to his last known location: a remote English village. Robert's investigation leads him to the mansion of Jonathon Lanceford, a man obsessed with the Gothic works of Edgar Allen Poe, and his beautiful and enigmatic niece Dominie...
Lonely
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assasination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
Felix
Un depravado satanista, obsesionado con la idea de resucitar a Drácula, convence a tres caballeros para comprar unas reliquias pertenecientes al mismísimo Príncipe de las Tinieblas: su capa, un anillo y un frasco de sangre pulverizada. Reunidos en una vieja iglesia desconsagrada, practican un ritual en el que tienen que beber la sangre de Drácula. Los caballeros se niegan y acaban matando al joven satanista. Cuando Drácula vuelve a la vida, se venga de los tres hombres, utilizando para ello a sus propios hijos
Lonely
Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
Pimpernel Pilot
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Scottie
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Johnnie Martin
A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.