Bill Paterson — Actor (27)
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The Writing on the Wall (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Writing on the Wall
director: Peter Smith actor: Lena Stolze / Bill Paterson …
other title: Operation Schmetterling
When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself.
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The Object of Beauty (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Object of Beauty
director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg actor: John Malkovich / Andie MacDowell …
other title: Attenti al ladro! / Object of Beauty - Verliebt, verwöhnt und abgebrannt …
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
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The Odd Job (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Odd Job
director: Peter Medak actor: Graham Chapman / David Jason …
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...
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The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Ploughman's Lunch
director: Richard Eyre actor: Jonathan Pryce / Tim Curry …
other title: La comida del labrador
As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
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Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Neil Maskell / Sam Riley …
other title: Feliz Año Nuevo, Colin Burstead
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
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The Crow Road (1996) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Crow Road
actor: Joseph McFadden / Bill Paterson …
History student Prentice returns home to attend his grandmother’s funeral. As the McHoan family gathers together to mark the solemn occasion, old disagreements continue to fester and old acquaintances are renewed. Following the unexpected death of another close relative, Prentice begins to question the past: why did his Uncle Rory suddenly disappear and where did he go? Reading his Uncle Rory’s unpublished novel may provide the answers he is seeking but it also unearths some dark family secrets he didn’t bargain for.
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Richard III (1995) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban Skybridge
Richard III
director: Richard Loncraine actor: Ian McKellen / Annette Bening …
other title: Riccardo III / Richard den Tredje …
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
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Defence of the Realm (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade …
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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Spice: The Movie (1997) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge
Spice World
director: Bob Spiers actor: Victoria Beckham / Craig Kelly …
other title: Five Girls / Its Been a Hard 15 Minutes …
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
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Into the Storm (2009) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Into the Storm
director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan actor: Brendan Gleeson / Adrian Scarborough …
other title: Into the Storm - La guerra di Churchill / Tempos de Tormenta …
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Man Who Invented Christmas
director: Bharat Nalluri actor: Dan Stevens / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Dickens: l'uomo che inventò il Natale / O Homem Que Inventou o Natal …
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
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The Killing Fields (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Killing Fields
director: Roland Joffé actor: Sam Waterston / Haing S. Ngor …
other title: Urla del silenzio / Terra Sangrenta …
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
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The Witches (1990) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
The Witches
director: Nicolas Roeg actor: Jasen Fisher / Mai Zetterling …
other title: Chi ha paura delle streghe? / Heksene …
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
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37 Days (2014) [TV] TMDB
37 Days
actor: Bernhard Schütz / Mark Lewis Jones …
other title: 37 Dias
This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping miniseries set among the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.
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Them From That Thing (2012) [TV] IMDb TMDB
Them From That Thing
director: Ben Palmer actor: David Brain / Leo Wallace …
Them From That Thing is a sketch show featuring a host of Channel 4 comedy stars.

The series features Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Kayvan Novak (Facejacker), Sally Phillips (Smack The Pony) and Morgana Robinson (Very Important People) alongside with a host of famous faces from the world of drama.

Set in the modern world where serious characters say and do very stupid things, Them From That Thing combines the look and feel of great British drama with a silly and slightly unhinged comic sensibility.
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Doctor Zhivago (2002) [TV] TMDB
Doctor Zhivago
director: Andrew Davies actor: Hans Matheson / Keira Knightley …
other title: Il dottor Zivago / Doutor Jivago …
Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he meets Lara. Their love story is unfolding against the backdrop of revolution which affects the doctor's career, his family, and his love to Lara.
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Comfort and Joy (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
other title: Joie et Réconfort / Når isen smelter
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.