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Russell Hunter is a Actor and Story British born on 18 february 1925 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Russell Hunter (18 February 1925 – 26 February 2004) was a popular Scottish television, stage and film actor. He is perhaps best known as the character "Lonely" in the TV thriller series Callan, starring Edward Woodward and that of Shop-Steward Harry in the Yorkshire Television sitcom The Gaffer.
Russell Hunter died aged 79 at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital of lung cancer.
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Russell Hunter
Birth name Adam Russell Hunter
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 february 1925 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Death 26 february 2004 (at 79 years) at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 february 1925 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Death 26 february 2004 (at 79 years) at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
Biography
In 1949, Hunter married Marjorie Thomson and had two daughters. In 1970, he married actress Caroline Blakiston after they both appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. They had a son and a daughter. His third marriage, in 1991, was to fellow performer Una McLean.Russell Hunter died aged 79 at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital of lung cancer.
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American Cousins (2003)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Crime
Actors Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson, Vincent Pastore, Dan Hedaya, Russell Hunter, Olegar Fedoro
Roles Nonno
Rating60%
Two New Jersey mobsters are almost killed when a deal in Eastern Europe goes wrong. They take refuge with their law-abiding cousin Bobby, who runs a fish and chip shop in Glasgow, Scotland. But when one of the Americans takes a shine to Bobby's girl and the other clashes with local hoodlums, Bobby realises he has to stand up for himself or risk losing everything he loves.
Sweet Dreams (2003)
, 1h44Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Iben Hjejle, Bronagh Gallagher, Martin Henderson, Ewen Bremner, Gary Lewis, Simon McBurney
Rating60%
The Masks of Death (1984)
, 1h12Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Peter Cushing, John Mills, Anne Baxter, Ray Milland, Anton Diffring, Gordon Jackson
Roles Alfred Coombs
Rating61%
The story takes place in 1913. Sherlock Holmes, virtually in retirement, is persuaded by Inspector Alec MacDonald of Scotland Yard to take on a baffling case. Three dead bodies have been found in London's East End, all with no discernible cause of death, but the expressions on their faces suggest that they all died in a state of terror.
Callan (1974)
, 1h46Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Russell Hunter
Roles Lonely
Rating67%
David Callan (Edward Woodward), a leading intelligence agent/assassin in the employment of S.I.S., was forced into retirement due to him losing his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman. Colonel Hunter (Eric Porter), his former employer promises Callan that he'll be resumed to active status as long as he follows his orders. But as ever, Callan refuses to act until he knows exactly why Schneider has been marked for death...
Up Pompeii (1971)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Julie Ege
Roles Jailor
Rating59%
Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern) who mistakenly reads the contents of the scroll to the Senate. Farcical attempts are made to retrieve the scroll before Pompeii is eventually consumed by the erupting Vesuvius.
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
, 1h31Directed by Peter Sasdy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Martin Jarvis, Linda Hayden, Anthony Higgins
Roles Felix
Rating62%
Three English gentlemen - Hargood, Paxton and Secker - have formed a circle ostensibly devoted to charitable work but in reality they indulge themselves in brothels. One night they are intrigued by a young man who bursts into the brothel and is immediately tended to after snapping his fingers, despite the brothelkeeper's objections. The gentlemen are informed that he is Courtley, who was disinherited for celebrating a Black Mass.
Angels One Five (1952)
, 1h38Directed by George More O'Ferrall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, John Gregson, Harold Goodwin, Veronica Hurst
Roles Pimpernel Pilot
Rating63%
The film begins with a replacement, Pilot Officer T. B. "Septic" Baird (John Gregson), landing his Hawker Hurricane at "Pimpernel" Squadron's airfield. Just as he touches down however, a straggler from an earlier mission taxis across his path. Septic's quick reactions allow him to "leapfrog" the other Hurricane, averting a costly disaster. However, this causes him to crash his replacement plane into the bungalow of Squadron Leader Barry Clinton (Cyril Raymond) at the end of the runway.
Lilli Marlene (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Hugh McDermott, Lisa Daniely, Stanley Baker, Richard Murdoch, Russell Hunter, Leslie Dwyer
Roles Scottie
Rating50%
A French girl named Lilli Marlene, working in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. The Germans try to snatch her at one point, but don't succeed, and she performs several times for the British troops and also appears in radio broadcasts to the USA, arranged by Steve, an American war correspondent embedded with the British Eighth Army, who eventually becomes her boyfriend.
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The Changeling (1980)
, 1h55Directed by Peter Medak
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Jean Marsh
Roles Story
Rating70%
John Russell (George C. Scott), a composer living in New York, New York, moves cross-country to Washington state following the deaths of his wife and daughter in a traffic accident while on a winter vacation in upstate New York. In suburban Seattle, John rents a large, old and eerie Victorian-era mansion and begins piecing his life back together.