Ron Donachie
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What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
As: Sgt. Murdoch
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Guy Jenkin | Andy Hamilton
Stars: David Tennant | Rosamund Pike | Billy Connolly | Ben Miller | Amelia Bullmore
Filth (2013)
As: Hector
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jon S. Baird
Stars: James McAvoy | Jamie Bell | Eddie Marsan | Imogen Poots | Joanne Froggatt
Die Spionin (2013)
As: Major Bloomberg
Vera von Schalburg is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by the Berlin police. She is offered to work as a spy for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, instead of facing jail time. Completely unaware of the secret war preparations being conducted by her government, and unwilling ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Miguel Alexandre
Stars: Valerie Niehaus | Fritz Karl | Jochen Nickel | Nina Petri | Hansa Czypionka
Blitz (2011)
As: Sergeant Cross
A tough, renegade cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Elliott Lester
Stars: Jason Statham | Paddy Considine | Aidan Gillen | Zawe Ashton | Luke Evans
The Daisy Chain (2008)
As: Doctor Ferguson
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Aisling Walsh
Stars: Samantha Morton | Steven Mackintosh | Mhairi Anderson | David Bradley | Eva Birthistle
The Flying Scotsman (2006)
As: Scobie
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Douglas Mackinnon
Stars: Jonny Lee Miller | Sean Brown | Joseph Carney | Billy Boyd | Laura Fraser
Greyfriars Bobby (2005)
As: Laurie
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Gina McKee | Sean Pertwee | Greg Wise | James Cosmo | Ron Donachie
Man to Man (2005)
As: Sir Walter Stephenson
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Régis Wargnier
Stars: Joseph Fiennes | Kristin Scott Thomas | Hugh Bonneville | Lomama Boseki | Cécile Bayiha
Al's Lads (2002)
As: Birch
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Richard Standeven
Stars: Marc Warren | Kirsty Mitchell | Al Sapienza | Richard Roundtree | Ralf Little
A Shot at Glory (2000)
As: Sportscaster
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Michael Corrente
Stars: Robert Duvall | Ally McCoist | Michael Keaton | Kirsty Mitchell | Morag Hood
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
As: Police Pathologist
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Bill Eagles
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Susan Lynch | Iain Glen | Jake D'Arcy | Tom Mannion
The Match (1999)
As: Happy Feet
The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mick Davis
Stars: Max Beesley | Isla Blair | James Cosmo | Richard E. Grant | Laura Fraser
Titanic (1997)
As: Master at Arms
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and ...
Runtime: 194 min.
Directed by: James Cameron
Stars: Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Billy Zane | Kathy Bates | Frances Fisher
Fierce Creatures (1997)
As: Sergeant Scott
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi | Robert Young
Stars: John Cleese | Jamie Lee Curtis | Kevin Kline | Michael Palin | Robert Lindsay
Crossing to Freedom (1990)
As: RAF Corporal
A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Norman Stone
Stars: Peter O'Toole | Mare Winningham | Susan Wooldridge | Michael Kitchen | Juliette Mole
White Mischief (1987)
As: Club Manager
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Michael Radford
Stars: Greta Scacchi | Charles Dance | Geraldine Chaplin | Joss Ackland | Sarah Miles
Heavenly Pursuits (1986)
As: Big Man in Bar
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Charles Gormley
Stars: Tom Conti | Helen Mirren | David Hayman | Ewen Bremner | Brian Pettifer
Comfort and Joy (1984)
As: George
Radio host Alan 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.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Bill Paterson | Eleanor David | Clare Grogan | Alex Norton | Patrick Malahide