Willie Ross Trailers
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The Bishop Auckland-born entertainer began as a comic on the North-East club circuit, teaming up with Peter Lambert to become Lambert and Ross, a duo that became nationally known. When the partnership folded in the 1980s, Willie became a successful actor, with hits in film, TV and on stage. His big break was as the foul-mouthed father in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too. He went on to acclaimed roles in Ken Loachs Riff Raff and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. On TV he was seen in Our Friends In The North, and One Foot In The Grave, to name but a few. He died in 2000, following an accident at home. He was 62.
Most Popular Willie Ross Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
29 October 2000
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams.
13 October 1989
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners.
01 March 2001
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
03 November 1989
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room.
17 April 1988
Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
09 April 1994
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies.
11 September 1996
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.
29 December 1995
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King.
13 October 2000
A single father prepares for a job interview while his young son, Clint, prepares sandwiches for their lunch.
23 January 1998
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century.
19 September 1997
Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her.
02 January 1998
An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.
12 December 1987
Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds.
21 June 1991
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits.
04 September 2001
Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder.
07 October 1987
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines.
03 November 2000
Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for better things in life.
20 May 1987
On a run-down Bradford council estate, teenagers Rita and Sue both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children.
17 April 1989
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II.
07 December 1999
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.
26 May 2000
In 1960s London, sisters Gerry, Mandy and Jo don male disguises and rob jewelry stores. Gerry also takes a job at a hip magazine in order to scope out a potential target.
20 February 1988
A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation.
22 May 1988
A carefree, absent-minded boy who is never scared goes on a strange journey to discover fear.
