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James Lance is a Actor British born on 29 september 1975 at Westbury-sub-Mendip (United-kingdom)

James Lance

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Birth name James Frederick Grenville Lance
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 29 september 1975 (48 years) at Westbury-sub-Mendip (United-kingdom)

James Lance (born 29 September 1975) is an English actor, best known for his appearances in a number of British comedy series.

Lance attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He appeared in the ITV1 mockumentary Moving Wallpaper and in ITV1's Boy Meets Girl, as well as in the ITV2 original comedy No Heroics as Timebomb.

Lance's roles include dealer Sticky in the drug-related series Top Buzzer, Matt in two series of Teachers, Ben in the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, Jamie in Absolute Power and various roles in the sketch show Smack the Pony. He also played Richard, Daisy's boyfriend, in Spaced, and in the BBC series Hotel Babylon.

Lance has also had roles in films including Late Night Shopping, The Search for John Gissing, Marie Antoinette, Bronson as art teacher Phil Danielson, and in 2012 in Bel Ami.

He has acted in the mini-series The Impressionists (as Bazille) and the sitcoms The Book Group, Sensitive Skin and Rescue Me. Smaller roles have included appearances in 2 point 4 Children, People Like Us, Saxondale, and as "Daniel" in the 1992 episode of Absolutely Fabulous called Iso Tank. Additionally he played the character of Mr. Hugo in the pilot episode of Biffovision, as well as featuring alongside Mark Heap and Tim Key in another Paul Rose-penned pilot, "Now The Weather". He also guest-starred in the 2012 fourth series of the BBC Three production Being Human, as the ghost of a 1970s-esque murderer Kirby.

Lance has voiced several UK TV commercials for brands such as Maybelline, Wrigley's Extra and the AA. As of August 2013 Lance appears in adverts for Moneysupermarket.com.

Lance appeared on stage as Miles at the Trafalgar Studios in May 2009 in Marcus Markou's play Ordinary Dreams; Or How to Survive a Meltdown with Flair. He portrayed Eric Idle at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival in a play called Pythonesque by writer Roy Smiles.

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Filmography of James Lance (12 films)

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The Bookshop, 1h50
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, James Lance, Frances Barber, Julie Christie
Roles Milo North
Rating64% 3.2497653.2497653.2497653.2497653.249765
Florence Green ouvre une librairie dans l'ancestrale maison qu'elle a achetée dans une petite ville reculée en Angleterre, Hardborough. Son entreprise se heurte aux ambitions de Violet Gamart, puissante notable de la région, qui cherche à faire installer dans le même immeuble un centre d'art et déploie toute la puissance de son réseau pour arriver à ses fins.
Northern Soul, 1h41
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Antonia Thomas, Steve Coogan, Christian McKay, Ricky Tomlinson, James Lance, Alex Esmail
Roles Ray Henderson
Rating62% 3.144873.144873.144873.144873.14487
Set in Lancashire in 1974, the film follows Matt and John as they leave behind a humdrum life of youth clubs and factory lines to chase a dream of travelling to the US, unearthing unknown soul 45s and establishing themselves as top DJ's on the Northern soul music scene. Their dance and amphetamine fuelled quest brings them into contact with some of the darker elements of the scene and tests their friendship to its limits.
The Look of Love, 1h45
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Stephen Fry, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Matt Lucas, Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton
Roles Carl Snitcher
Rating59% 2.9975352.9975352.9975352.9975352.997535
The story opens in London in 1992. Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) returns to his flat after attending the funeral of his daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). Raymond plays a videotape of a TV programme he and Debbie took part in and reflects on their lives.
Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren, James Lance, Lydia Leonard, Tom Austen
Roles Doug McConnell
Rating37% 1.8637551.8637551.8637551.8637551.863755
Une Equipe d'aventuriers et Scientifiques Est Engagée Pour aller enquêter en Chine sur l'apparition d'Une créature reptilienne inconnue Qui serait responsable de la mort tragique de PLUSIEURS personnes.
Bel Ami
Bel Ami (2012)
, 1h42
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney, Anthony Higgins
Roles François Laroche
Rating53% 2.6991252.6991252.6991252.6991252.699125
Paris in the 1880s. Georges Duroy (Robert Pattinson) is a penniless soldier who has spent the last six months in Paris, barely making a living as an office clerk. At a club he meets an old friend, Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister), with whom he spent three years in the war in Algeria. The friend is well off and invites him to his home where he meets Mrs. Madeleine Forestier (Uma Thurman) and her friends Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci) and Virginie Rousset (Kristin Scott Thomas). Mrs. Rousset's husband is an editor of the conservative newspaper La Vie Française and she helps him to get a job there, initially by publishing his diaries from the war in the paper. Step by step he finds ways improve his social and financial status. He uses his wit and powers of seduction to charm wealthy women, and as he goes from nothing to money all hell breaks loose and things happen and end up looking bad for him.
Mr. Right
Mr. Right (2009)
, 1h34
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Lance, Luke de Woolfson, Heather Bleasdale, Benjamin Hart, Rocky Marshall, Leon Ockenden
Roles Harry
Rating57% 2.8932952.8932952.8932952.8932952.893295
The film presents life of a number of individuals who live in London's Soho area in their quest for their "Mr. Right". One of the highlights of the film is when all the characters gather for an excruciatingly awkward and hilarious dinner party at which wine and secrets are spilled.
Bronson
Bronson (2008)
, 1h32
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Amanda Burton, Kelly Adams, Jonny Phillips
Roles Phil
Rating69% 3.4999353.4999353.4999353.4999353.499935
The film begins with Bronson introducing himself to the camera, stating he always wanted to be famous. He cannot sing, he cannot act, and so he shows the calling he found: the film cuts to a naked Bronson fighting several prison guards in a cage. The film then presents several assorted points from his life, inter-cut with Bronson on stage before an audience in several stages of performance make-up, and speaking directly to camera while seemingly behind bars.
Marie Antoinette, 2h3
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Roles Léonard
Rating65% 3.2519353.2519353.2519353.2519353.251935
Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna Habsburg (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of France (Jason Schwartzman), to seal an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet Pug "Mops", and meets the King Louis XV of France (Rip Torn) and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the Palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's great-grandfather. They are married at once, and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible; but the next day it is reported to the king that "nothing happened" on the wedding night.
The Search for John Gissing, 1h31
Directed by Mike Binder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Mike Binder, Alan Rickman, Janeane Garofalo, Sonya Walger, Juliet Stevenson, Allan Corduner
Roles Donny the Janitor
Rating64% 3.2395753.2395753.2395753.2395753.239575
Matthew Barnes is a young executive on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger. He's to replace John Gissing; Gissing's gotten wind of it, and he makes sure that Matthew and his wife Linda, who has dutifully but reluctantly come to England, have a miserable first few days there. By the time Matthew figures out what's happening and declares a counter offensive, it may be too late to save himself from a transfer to Detroit. With Gissing still holding lots of cards and Linda more unhappy by the moment, Matthew must reevaluate. All out war? A partnership with Gissing? Some third way?
Late Night Shopping, 1h31
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Luke de Woolfson, James Lance, Kate Ashfield, Enzo Cilenti, Heike Makatsch, Shauna Macdonald
Roles Vincent
Rating67% 3.3945453.3945453.3945453.3945453.394545
Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny work graveyard shifts in various soul-killing jobs (the hospital, a supermarket, a factory and a call centre, respectively) and meet up in a cafe after work to kill time. Apart from this each has very little of a life. Sean hasn't met his girlfriend for three weeks and is beginning to wonder if she still lives in his apartment. Vincent is a serial womanizer. Lenny, formerly a writer of porn stories, can't pluck up the courage to ask out his attractive workmate Gail. Jody, unknown to the others, has been fired from her job, but still shows up after her "shift" every night to talk.