James Ellis
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1931-03-15
Place of Birth:Belfast, Ireland
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Conspiracy of Silence (2003)
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken...

The Long March (1980)
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

The Near Room (1997)
Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together...

The Glory Hole (1982)
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.

Priest (1995)
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

High Rise Donkey (1980)
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by...

A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984)
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family -...

A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983)
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger...

Mark of the Devil (1984)
A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on...

Doctor Who: Battlefield (1989)
Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace, with the assistance of Brigadier...

No Surrender (1985)
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and...

Leapin' Leprechauns (1995)
A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996)
Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of...

Crossing the Floor (1996)
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...

Shadow of a Gunman (1995)
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men,...

Too Late to Talk to Billy (1982)
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.

Lorna (1987)
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna...

Resurrection Man (1998)
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A...

James Ellis: An Actor's Life (2007)
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

The Precious Blood (1996)
Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by...

Naming the Names (1987)
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

Softly, Softly (1966)
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

Doctor Who (1963)
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

The Bill (1984)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

In Sickness and in Health (1985)
Sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part' with the bad tempered Alf Garnett, who has not mellowed with the years and is as bigoted as ever.

Heartbeat (1992)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

The Scales of Justice (1962)
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and...

Nightingales (1990)
Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and...

Lovejoy (1986)
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

King of the River (1966)
King of the River is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1966 and 1967. The series centred around the King family and their...

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955)
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

One by One (1984)
One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987. The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of...

Play for Today (1970)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984)
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series...

Wogan (1982)
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

So You Think You've Got Troubles (1991)
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.

Z-Cars (1962)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

The Marksman (1987)
Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy's father, who returns from Spain to...

Common As Muck (1994)
Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their management staff. It ran for two series. The...

Magic Grandad (1993)
Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993....

The Detectives (1993)
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when...

Casualty (1986)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and...

The Gathering Seed (1983)
The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two

Z-Cars (1962)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

Troubles (1988)
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic...