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A radio DJ's life changes when he finds himself mediating between two Italian gangsters over Glasgow's ice cream market. Comedy, starring Bill Forsyth and Clare Grogan.
1984
Gangster
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Bill Paterson
(Actor)
.. Alan
Eleanor David
(Actor)
.. Maddy
Clare Grogan
(Actor)
.. Charlotte
Alex Norton
(Actor)
.. Trevor
Patrick Malahide
(Actor)
.. Colin
Rikki Fulton
(Actor)
.. Hilary
Bill Forsyth
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Bill Paterson
(Actor)
.. Alan
Born:
June 03, 1945
in
Glasgow
Best Known For:
A number of small-screen TV roles.
Early-life:
Bill Paterson was born on June 3, 1945, in Glasgow. He spent three years as a quantity surveyor before doing a teaching course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was about to accept an educational role when he was offered a place with the Citizen's Theatre. His big break came at the Edinburgh Festival in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a satire by Billy Connolly about striking shipbuilders.
Career:
Paterson's TV debut came in 1977's Bafta-winning Licking Hitler. A year later he appeared in The Vanishing Army and Smiley's People. He went on to feature in such films as The Killing Fields, A Private Function, Defence of the Realm, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Chaplin, Bright Young Things and Truly, Madly, Deeply. Other TV projects include The Singing Detective, Traffik, The Crow Road, Doctor Zhivago, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and Law & Order: UK. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award for Bertolt Brecht's Schwekyk in the Second World War in 1982 and has done extensive voiceover work on TV and radio.
Quote:
"I don't think acting has ever been my passion, but it's a very nice way of making a living."
Trivia:
Paterson turned down one of the leads in Alien.
Eleanor David
(Actor)
.. Maddy
Clare Grogan
(Actor)
.. Charlotte
Alex Norton
(Actor)
.. Trevor
Patrick Malahide
(Actor)
.. Colin
Born:
March 24, 1945
in
Reading
Best Known For:
Playing Detective Sergeant Chisholm in Minder and a string of other roles.
Early-life:
Born Patrick Gerald Duggan in Reading on March 24, 1945. In 1976, he made his TV acting debut in The Flight of the Heron. Since then, the prolific character actor has appeared in a number of TV shows.
Career:
Perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Chisholm in the hugely popular ITV comedy drama Minder, Malahide's credits also include The Singing Detective, Middlemarch, Alleyn Mysteries, Five Days, Law & Order: UK, The Paradise and Hunted. More recently, he has starred in Game of Thrones, Indian Summers and Luther. His film credits include The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The World is Not Enough (1999) and Billy Elliot (2000). Writing as PG Duggan, he created the BBC TV movie Reasonable Force and the miniseries The Writing on the Wall. Malahide's numerous stage credits include roles in The Crucible, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Beauty and the Beast, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and Mutabilitie.
Quote:
"If I'm walking past a building site, I get `Oi, Chisholm" from Minder fans. But if I go to a library, a female librarian will flutter her eyelashes at me because she remembers Middlemarch."
Trivia:
Malahide was nominated for a Bafta TV Award for his role in The Singing Detective.
Rikki Fulton
(Actor)
.. Hilary
Bill Forsyth
(Director)
