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Cal MacAninch is a Actor British born on 1 january 1969 at Govan (United-kingdom)
Cal MacAninch (born 24 November 1963) is a Scottish actor, best known for portraying the character of DI John Keenan in police drama HolbyBlue on BBC1 (from 2007–08). He is currently appearing in the ITV period drama, Mr Selfridge, as Mr Thackeray.
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Cal MacAninch
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MacAninch played Rowan Collins in Series 4 of the ITV drama series Wild at Heart. He returned to the show for its fifth series as a main cast member. He also played Tauren, a sorcerer in the BBC television series Merlin in the episode "To Kill the King". He starred in the 2001 BBC miniseries The Best of Both Worlds with Alice Evans. He appeared as Henry Lang, a valet, in the second series of Downton Abbey.Usually with
Filmography of Cal MacAninch (12 films)
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Calibre (2018)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, Cal MacAninch, Kate Bracken
Roles Al McClay
Rating67%
Deux jeunes hommes, amis de longue date, Marcus (chasseur expérimenté) et Vaughn (novice), partent pour un week-end de chasse au cerf dans les Highlands, en Écosse. Ils prennent des chambres dans l'hôtel d'un village isolé. Le lendemain d'une soirée au pub en compagnie de villageois (dont certains se montrent accueillants et d'autres inamicaux), ils partent en forêt chasser le cerf. Marcus prête l'un de ses fusils à Vaughn. Lorsqu'ils repèrent une biche, Marcus invite Vaughn à tirer. Celui-ci vise soigneusement la tête de l'animal mais, pris par le trac, il hésite longuement. Au moment-même où il fait enfin feu la biche bouge soudain la tête, et dans la lunette de son fusil Vaughn n'a que le temps de voir son coup de feu atteindre en pleine tête un jeune garçon qui se trouvait plus loin en arrière-plan. Marcus, qui observait la biche avec des jumelles, voit la scène. Les deux chasseurs courent vers l'enfant dont ils ne peuvent que constater le décès. Sous le choc, Vaughn est effondré à terre lorsque le père de l'enfant surgit à son tour. Découvrant le drame, le père ramasse au sol le fusil de Vaughn, prostré, et le pointe vers lui. Marcus, qui était resté en retrait, fait feu sur le père qui s'écroule à son tour, mortellement touché. Dépassés par les évènements, les deux chasseurs sont totalement désemparés. Mais Marcus se ressaisit et décide d'adopter une stratégie qui évitera d'attirer les soupçons: il faudra revenir enterrer les corps à la nuit tombée parce qu'il pense préférable de rentrer d'abord au village afin de se constituer un alibi en étant vus par les habitants. Ensuite il faut finir le séjour comme prévu. En effet Marcus ne veut pas s'enfuir: ils ont réservé pour trois jours à l'hôtel et un départ précipité ne manquerait pas de faire d'eux des suspects quand la population se sera alarmée de la disparition de l'homme et du garçon, et a fortiori si les corps sont retrouvés. Ils se contentent donc de dissimuler les corps dans des fourrés en attendant la nuit. Rentrés au village ils s'efforcent avec difficulté de faire comme si de rien n'était, mais ils sont choqués et Vaughn a le plus grand mal à dissimuler sa fébrilité... L'obscurité venue, de retour sur place avec une pelle et une lampe torche, ils creusent le sol pour ensevelir les deux corps. Marcus, en chasseur expérimenté, a l'idée de chercher dans un tronc d'arbre la balle qu'il a tirée sur le père de l'enfant et qui l'avait transpercé. Il la trouve enfin fichée dans un sapin, il l'extrait avec son couteau et la met dans sa poche, faisant disparaître ainsi une preuve de sa culpabilité. Mais alors qu'il soulève le corps de l'enfant pour l'enterrer, il se rend compte que la balle qui l'a tué n'est pas ressortie de son crâne. Craignant que si les corps étaient découverts une analyse balistique conduirait les enquêteurs à lui, il décide d'ouvrir la tête de l'enfant avec son couteau de chasse pour récupérer le projectile. Horrifié, Vaughn tente de s'y opposer, mais en vain (aucune scène "gore" n'est montrée). Les deux chasseurs finissent ensuite d'enterrer les corps et retournent au village. Là, Marcus et Vaughn tentent tant bien que mal de garder une attitude la plus naturelle possible. Mais le soir, alors qu'une fête de village rassemble toute la population, l'absence du petit garçon et de son père partis pour une promenade en forêt depuis le matin inquiète leur famille, et les hommes décident d'organiser une battue. Ils sollicitent l'aide de Marcus et Vaughn. Ne pouvant se dérober, ceux-ci suivent les recherches avec les hommes accompagnés d'un chien qui retrouve la piste des disparus et mène le groupe sur le lieu du drame. Les hommes commencent à creuser à l'endroit marqué par le chien. Restés légèrement en arrière, Marcus et Vaughn se savent perdus. L'horreur est découverte... Acculés, Marcus et Vaughn s'enfuient, et une course-poursuite s'engage.
, 1h30Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Mikael Persbrandt, Steven Waddington, Frida Hallgren, Said William Legue, John Light, Lennart Hjulström
Roles Harold Finley
Rating56%
Eva Tanguy is the mother of Carl Hamilton's goddaughter Natalie and the director of the Swedish Security Service. When she confounds a terroristic assassination on Swedish soil, the assassin is unfortunately killed in her presence. This draws more attention to her person than ever but she sticks to her previous promise to give an interview for a big newspaper. The journalists twist her words in a way that provokes Islamists. As a result Nathalie gets kidnapped. She is filming with her smartphone when this happens and this provides a trace for Hamilton. Soon he realises the kidnappers were mercenaries with a SAS background. His investigation leads him to the United Kingdom where he tries to retrieve information from one of their old SAS comrades who is evidently unwilling to fill in an outsider. He attempts to put Hamilton down and dies trying. Hamilton is then arrested and delivered to the SIS Building where he faces being interrogated by high-ranked MI-6 officials. After his release he learns he mustn't even rely on his own country's secret service when he wants to rescue his goddaughter. As soon as he knows where Nathalie is kept, he asks Mouna al Fathar to help him. She demands that the leader of these Islamists will also be deducted because the PLO wants him brought before an international court. Together with Nathalie's father, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, they raid the terrorist's garrison. But Pierre Tanguy is out of shape and the terrorist leader is of all things secretly supported by an US-American who plays all sides. Hamilton gets caught and becomes subject to enhanced interrogation techniques.
The Awakening (2011)
, 1h47Directed by Nick Murphy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Actors Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, John Shrapnel, Lucy Cohu, Isaac Hempstead Wright
Roles Freddie Strickland
Rating63%
England, 1921. Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a published author on supernatural hoaxes who works with the police to expose charlatans and debunk supernatural phenomena. She receives a visit from Robert Mallory (Dominic West), a teacher from a boys boarding school in Cumbria. Robert explains to her that there have been sightings of the ghost of a child at the school, and that it may have been the cause of the recent death of a pupil there. Robert asks Florence for help to figure out why the supernatural events occur. Although Florence originally refuses, Robert's concern for the orphaned kids at the school causes her to change her mind since she is an orphan herself. Florence travels to the school, which was a stately home until 20 years earlier, to investigate the sightings and the recent death. She is welcomed by Maud (Imelda Staunton), the school's housekeeper and matron, who tells Florence that she has read her books and feels like she knows her. After investigation, the ghostly sightings are thought to be a prank led by two boys who have been bullying a lonely, redheaded boy into doing what they want for their approval. With regards to the recent death, Florence deduces that one of the teachers was the last person to see the boy alive and questions him, until he admits to making the young boy stand outside to "man up", after he claimed to have seen the ghost, thus scaring the young boy and causing him to have a fatal asthma attack. The school then closes for half-term with the only occupants being Florence, Robert, Maud and Tom (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), a lonely boy who tells Florence his parents live in India.
Doomsday (2008)
, 1h45Directed by Neil Marshall
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Adrian Lester
Roles Chancellor Falco
Rating59%
In 2008, an unknown killer virus, dubbed "The Reaper Virus" infects Scotland. The UK government cannot contain or cure the virus, and they decide to build a 60-foot containment wall over the border with Scotland and its islands, isolating it from the rest of Britain.
Jetsam (2007)
, 1h24Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Alex Reid, Shauna Macdonald, Jamie Draven, Cal MacAninch
Roles Jack
Rating67%
Grace (Alex Reid) is washed up on a beach along with a man (Jamie Draven) whom she cannot recollect. But since it becomes quickly apparent that the man means to kill her, Grace is forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive while putting her memory back together.
Dear Frankie (2005)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, Katy Murphy, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small
Roles Davey
Rating76%
Lizzie Morrison (Emily Mortimer) and nine-year-old deaf son Frankie (Jack McElhone) frequently relocate to keep one step ahead of her abusive ex-husband and his family. They are accompanied by her opinionated, chain-smoking mother Nell. Newly relocated in the Scottish town of Greenock, Lizzie accepts a job at the local fish and chips shop owned by a friendly woman named Marie, and enrolls Frankie in school.
The Point Men (2001)
, 1h30Directed by John Glen
Origin Luxembourg
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Christophe Lambert, Maryam d'Abo, Kerry Fox, Vincent Regan, Cal MacAninch, Donald Sumpter
Roles Horst
Rating43%
Une équipe de la légion étrangère israélienne élimine les membres d'un groupe de terroristes palestiniens dirigés par un leader particulièrement dangereux, Amar Kamil. Au moment où ils parviennent à l'avoir lui dans leur collimateur, cela se révèle un piège, dont le filet va petit à petit se resserrer sur eux. Mais ce terroriste qui les assassine un à un pour se venger est lui-même épaulé par un réseau de mafia russe constitué d'anciens officiers du KGB qui ne voit pas d'un très bon œil la dilapidation des fonds confiés… et réclame l'exécution d'une mission qui va le conduire à devoir tuer son demi-frère… pour compromettre le processus de paix…
Best (2000)
, 1h42Directed by Mary McGuckian
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors John Lynch, Ian Bannen, David Hayman, Jerome Flynn, Linus Roache, Patsy Kensit
Roles Paddy
Rating56%
Le film relate la carrière du joueur de football nord-irlandais George Best, notamment lorsqu'il jouait à Manchester.
The Lost Son (1999)
, 1h42Directed by Chris Menges
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Ciarán Hinds, Katrin Cartlidge, Marianne Denicourt, Billie Whitelaw
Roles Martin
Rating63%
Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and he quickly finds himself caught up in the underworld of child sex slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He gets a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian", the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.
Warriors (1999)
, 2h51Directed by Peter Kosminsky
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Matthew Macfadyen, Darren Morfitt, Cal MacAninch, Ioan Gruffudd, Damian Lewis, Jodhi May
Roles Sgt. Andre Sochanik
Rating83%
Automne 1992, la guerre fait rage en Bosnie-Herzégovine. De jeunes militaires britanniques sont rappelés de permission pour servir en tant que Casques bleus de la FORPRONU dans le conflit ethnique qui oppose les Croates, Serbes et Bosniaques. À bord de leurs MCV-80 Warrior de couleur blanche à l’effigie de l’ONU, ils sillonnent un pays livré à la barbarie et au chaos.
Sentimental Education (1998)
Directed by C.S. Leigh
Genres Drama
Actors Clément Sibony, Julie Gayet, Arsinée Khanjian, Thom Hoffman, Guillaume Canet, Sylvie Testud
Roles August
Rating65%
Transposition du chef-d'oeuvre de Gustave Flaubert dans l'univers des top-models.
Splitting Heirs (1993)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Young, Roger Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Sadie Frost
Roles CID Officer
Rating54%
The movie centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth (England), upon which misfortune has befallen throughout history, leading it to believe itself cursed. The most recent heir, Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace, was left in a restaurant as an infant in the 1960s, by the time his parents remembered him, he had disappeared. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, Tommy Patel (Eric Idle) has grown up in an Asian/Indian family in Southall, never doubting his ethnicity despite being taller than anyone else in the house, fair-haired, blue-eyed, light-skinned - and not liking curry. From the family corner-shop he commutes to the City, where he works for the Bournemouth family's stockbroking firm, handling multimillion-pound deals.