Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson

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

História

​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.

Perfil

Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson

Filmes

Star Wars: Episódio IX - A Ascensão Skywalker
Wedge Antilles
Com o retorno do Imperador Palpatine, todos voltam a temer seu poder e, com isso, a Resistência toma a frente da batalha que ditará os rumos da galáxia. Treinando para ser uma completa Jedi, Rey (Daisy Ridley) ainda se encontra em conflito com seu passado e futuro, mas teme pelas respostas que pode conseguir a partir de sua complexa ligação com Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), que também se encontra em conflito pela Força.
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.
Soldado do Futuro
Thomson
Num mundo consumido em uma nova guerra fria, o Ministério da Defesa da Grã-Bretanha está prestes a lançar uma nova arma que pode reverter o jogo de poder. O cientista Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) proproe uma solução com o invento The Machine, um androide com potenciais físicos e de processamento de informações inigualáveis.
The Wee Man
Willie Ferris
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Parade's End
In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in London; Catholic Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centered socialite wife who has married him only to hide the fact that their son is not really his; and freethinking Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.
Broken
Mr. Buckley
Após testemunhar um ataque violento, a vida de uma jovem inglesa é transformada e seu mundo começa a parecer cada vez mais estranho. Ela enfrenta o desconhecido e o medo, vendo a inocência da infância ir embora, com o apoio de Rick, um rapaz doce e sofrido.
Sentidos do Amor
Boss
Quando Susan, uma epidemiologista, se recupera de um caso malsucedido, ela encontra um paciente peculiar: um caminhoneiro que perdeu seu olfato. Ela logo descobre que centenas de pessoas no mundo todo começam a ter sintomas estranhos, inclusive um chef de cozinha por quem ela se apaixona.
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
O drama biográfico sobre a vida da escritora Enid Blyton, que conta como uma mulher que foi capaz de captar qualquer imaginação quando criança, ele construiu sua carreira fora de ambição, tentando superar uma infância difícil que em nada se parecia com o ambiente ele retratou em seus livros.
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
A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geometric theories held within. Based on a short story by Ian McEwan.
Solid Geometry
Writer
A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geometric theories held within. Based on a short story by 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.
Os Caçadores das Jóias Perdidas
Alistair
Uma jovem transporta pedras preciosas para um museu. As pedras são roubadas no caminho e só lhe resta aceitar a ajuda de um grupo de detetives mirins.
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.
Guerra nas Estrelas: O Retorno de Jedi
Wedge
O imperador está supervisionando a construção de uma nova Estrela da Morte. Enquanto isso Luke Skywalker liberta Han Solo e a Princesa Leia das mãos de Jaba. Luke só se tornará um cavaleiro jedi quando destruir Darth Vader, que ainda pretende atraí-lo para o lado sombrio da Força.
Momento Inesquecível
Urquhart
Uma companhia petrolífera americana envia um homem para a Escócia para comprar uma vila inteira onde eles querem construir uma refinaria. Mas as coisas não correm como o esperado.
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
Star Wars: Episódio V - O Império Contra-Ataca
Wedge Antilles
Após a destruição da Estrela da Morte, as forças imperiais continuam a perseguir os rebeldes. Após a derrota da Rebelião no planeta de gelo Hoth, Luke viaja para o planeta Dagobah para treinar com o Mestre Jedi Yoda, que vive escondido desde a queda da República. Numa tentativa de converter Luke para o lado negro, Darth Vader atrai o jovem Skywalker para uma armadilha na Cidade Nuvem de Bespin.
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.
Exterminação 2000
2nd Journalist
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Claude
Clássico de Alexandre Dumas sobre os irmãos gêmeos (um bom e o outro mau) herdeiros do trono francês: O homem prisioneiro sob uma máscara de ferro e seu afetado e elegante irmão gêmeo, o Rei Louis XIV. O homem fechado sob a máscara é Phillipe, considerado morto, irmão gêmeo do Rei, considerado herdeiro por direito ao trono, era mantido na obscuridade por motivos políticos. Seu destino é assumir o trono no lugar do irmão, Louis, que é manipulado por Fouquet. O capitão dos mosqueteiros, D´Artagnam, e Colbert, ministro do Rei para assuntos domésticos, planejam restaurar a desejada autonomia e prosperidade do reino ao substituir Phillipe pelo Rei. O plano tem sucesso e Phillipe assume o trono enquanto seu irmão é condenado na máscara de ferro.
Guerra nas Estrelas
Red Two (Wedge Antilles)
A princesa Leia é mantida refém pelas forças imperiais comandadas por Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker e Han Solo precisam libertá-la e restaurar a liberdade e a justiça na galáxia.
Providence
Dave Woodford
Kevin mata um idoso por piedade pois via que o velho sofria e assim desejava. No entanto, no tribunal, Claude, o implacável advogado de acusação quer que o júri mande Kevin para a cadeia. O acusado, porém, é inocentado e vê a mulher de Claude se apaixonar por ele. Quem narra este episódio é Clive, velho escritor à beira da morte que, em seu aniversário, recebe a visita dos filhos. Alain Resnais utiliza-se, mais uma vez, de dispositivos oníricos e psicanalíticos para contar uma estória.
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.