Ron Donachie
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1956-04-26
Place of Birth:Dundee, Tayside, Scotland
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Man to Man (2005)
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

Sakharov (1984)
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Made of Honor (2008)
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is...

The Flying Scotsman (2006)
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine...

The Daisy Chain (2008)
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to...

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (2005)
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.

Blitz (2011)
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

Filth (2013)
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure...

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.

Recovery (2007)
Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. Until one day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car, and he is...

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye...

Sweet Nothing (1990)
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.

Al's Lads (2002)
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.

Beautiful Creatures (2000)
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

The Jungle Book (1994)
Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt....

White Mischief (1987)
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as...

The Spy (2013)
Vera von Schalburg is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by...

The Key (2003)
The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a...

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998)
Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William...

Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his...

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes...

Comfort and Joy (1984)
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...

Titanic (1997)
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and...

Uncle Adolf (2005)
A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive...

Crossing to Freedom (1990)
A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

Heavenly Pursuits (1986)
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles...

Down Where the Buffalo Go (1988)
Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to...

The Match (1999)
Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure...

A Shot at Glory (2000)
The irascible manager of a lower-division Scottish football side must contend with problems off and on the field when his team's impatient American...

The Bogie Man (1992)
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic...

Fierce Creatures (1997)
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep...

The Zip (1988)
A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?

Outlaw King (2018)
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

Stone of Destiny (2008)
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled...

Man Dancin' (2004)
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's...

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the...

Those Glory Glory Days (1983)
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the...

Steel Rain (2017)
Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

It Could Happen to Anybody (1984)
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean...

Sunset Song (2015)
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Blood Red Roses (1986)
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Lucky Suit (1996)
The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set in 1793 during the French Revolution. It...

Still Game (2002)
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how...

Doctor Who Confidential (2005)
Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British...

Monarch of the Glen (2000)
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.

Taggart (1983)
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde...

Silent Witness (1996)
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Starhunter (2000)
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television

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

Party Animals (2007)
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic,...

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983)
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their...

Virtual Murder (1992)
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his...

Me, You and Him (1992)
Me, You and Him is a British television sitcom, that aired on ITV from 30 July to 3 September 1992. It was made for the ITV network by Thames. It...

The Commander (2003)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.

The Loch (2017)
The search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for detective Annie Redford, who is trying to cope with her first murder case.

Vera (2011)
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder,...

Rebus (2000)
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to...

Rebus (2000)
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to...

Rebus (2000)
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to...

The Field of Blood (2011)
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan...

Father Brown (2013)
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve...

Garrow's Law (2009)
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until...

Atlantis (2013)
A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of...

Cracker (1993)
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

The Golden Hour (2005)
The Golden Hour was an ITV drama series, first shown in 2005. The series centred on the activities of a specialist medical unit, HEMS which is based...

Love Soup (2005)
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.

Screw (2022)
Rob Williams' darkly comic crime drama portrays prison as you've never seen it before: through the embattled and inspiring characters who work there.

Sea of Souls (2004)
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.

Stay Lucky (1989)
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed,...

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...

Downton Abbey (2010)
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an...

Roughnecks (1994)
Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives...

Doctor Who (2005)
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

Game of Thrones (2011)
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very...

The Genius of Mozart (2004)
Looks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of costume drama and documentary.

Shackleton (2002)
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship...

Takin' Over the Asylum (1994)
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.

Ain't Misbehavin' (1997)
Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft...

Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted...

The Gravy Train (1990)
A four-part comedy about bureaucratic bribery and corruption in the European Union.

Ivanhoe (1997)
The epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe and his battle against the evil Templar Bois-Guilbert. Caught between the rivalries and...

Tutti Frutti (1987)
Tutti Frutti is a BBC Scotland six part drama series, transmitted in 1987 and written by John Byrne. It starred Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson,...

Blandings (2013)
Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on...

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
A former POW leads a special task force to hunt down the culprits responsible for carrying out the orders to murder 50 of the 76 escapees from Stalag...

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

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

Agatha Raisin (2016)
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur...

Hamish Macbeth (1995)
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C....

Starhunter ReduX (2018)
It's a time when humans have spread across the solar system, colonizing planets and building new worlds. Rule of law has broken down on this new...

Too Much Sun (2000)
A struggling English actor and his writer friend decide to try their luck in Hollywood.

Grey Granite (1983)
Final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Chris is now running a boarding house, while her son Ewan is drawn into political...