Denis Lawson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5283 |
| Birthday | 1947-09-27 |
| Place of Birth | Perthshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | Denis Stamper Lawson, |
1977
Star Wars
8.206/22600
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an...
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Star Wars
1983
Local Hero
6.8/408
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Local Hero
1998
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
7.441/51
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew...
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
2009
Enid
6.382/38
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her per...
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Enid
2019
Somnium
9/1
Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster techno...
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Somnium
2011
Perfect Sense
6.869/1269
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a...
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Perfect Sense
1977
Providence
6.606/71
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes...
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Providence
2013
The Wee Man
5.564/47
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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The Wee Man
1996
Fried Crumbed Brains
7.5/2
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Val...
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Fried Crumbed Brains
2012
Broken
6.876/295
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
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Broken
2009
No Holds Bard
10/1
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 poetr...
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No Holds Bard
1984
The Chain
7/7
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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The Chain
2013
The Machine
5.896/878
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an a...
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The Machine
2009
Breaking the Mould
5.5/4
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...
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Breaking the Mould
1976
The Paradise Run
0/0
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 wil...
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The Paradise Run
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.392/18637
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...
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The Empire Strikes Back
1983
Return of the Jedi
7.911/17117
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a m...
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Return of the Jedi
1978
Fearless Frank
0/0
The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the litera...
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Fearless Frank
2011
The Lighthouse Stevensons
8/1
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...
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The Lighthouse Stevensons
1989
One Way Out
0/0
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...
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One Way Out
1980
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
5/5
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...
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
2003
Lucky Jim
7/1
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British u...
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Lucky Jim
1983
Bitter Cherry
8/1
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.
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Bitter Cherry
1991
Bejewelled
4.9/5
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recov...
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Bejewelled
2006
The Thieving Headmistress
7/1
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 foun...
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The Thieving Headmistress
2010
Above Their Station
0/0
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...
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Above Their Station
1997
A Royal Scandal
7.6/5
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
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A Royal Scandal
1977
Holocaust 2000
5.831/59
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.
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Holocaust 2000
1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
6.407/70
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1988
The Zip
9/1
A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?
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The Zip
2004
The Black Death
0/0
The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course...
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The Black Death
2001
The Real Hughie Green
8/2
TV Movie documentary exploring the secret life of Hughie Green.
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The Real Hughie Green
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6.26/10991
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2017
Burns in the USA
0/0
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...
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Burns in the USA
1992
Born Kicking
9/1
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....
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Born Kicking
1976
Jumping Bean Bag
8/1
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 r...
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Jumping Bean Bag
1973
The Merchant of Venice
8.5/2
An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.
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The Merchant of Venice
2007
A New Body at Last
8/1
The cast and crew discussing the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, including exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the regeneration.
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A New Body at Last
2001
Leonard
9/1
Leonard is the victim of obsessive compulsive behaviour; meticulous and insular, his world is at home. When his long-lost son, Callum, turns up on the...
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Leonard
1978
The Girl Who Walked Quickly
9/1
A man is kidnapped and brainwashed by political extremists. He is then sent on a mission.
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The Girl Who Walked Quickly
1987
Love After Lunch
0/0
Miles Henderson has a few problems. His job, his marriage and his car are all falling apart at the same time. The last thing he needs is to be followe...
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Love After Lunch
2001
This is Stanley Baxter
0/0
BBC Scotland documentary catching up with and celebrating the life of legendary Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter as he returns to Glasgow for his 75th...
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This is Stanley Baxter
2014
A Quiet Night In
0/0
Gerald owns a beautiful house with lots of beautiful things in it. Beautiful things that are also extremely valuable. The kind of things that might ju...
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