Denis Lawson

Denis Lawson
Date of Birth: 27 Sep 1947
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor)
Biography submitted by howler19
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Princess Leia (Fisher) is held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker (Hamill) and Captain Han Solo (Ford) team together with the lovable droid duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO, to rescue the beautiful princess and restore justice in the galaxy. (20th Century Fox)
Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected. (imdb)
Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ships
While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion exam, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. (imdb)
Providence
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things? (imdb)
The Man in the Iron Mask
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan. (imdb)
The Merchant of Venice
Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands repayment in the form of a pound of Antonio's flesh. This is a video of the 1970 National Theatre stage production with most of the same cast. (imdb)
Bleak House
Bleak House (2005) - TV Mini-Series
A web of deceit and mystery surrounds the chancery trial of Jarndyce and Jarndyce that draws a large group of disparate individuals together. But are they more closely related than they think? And what's the connection between the Jarndyce case and the orphan Esther Summerson?
Marple
Marple (2004) - TV Series
Dolls
Dolls (2006) - Short Film
Inspired by a story that appeared in a 1950's newspaper, this short film plays out a year in the life of a young girl, Mouche. Deemed too skinny to make a living at the Moulin Rouge, Mouche is cast out and saved from suicide by a group of puppets traveling from town to town performing street puppet shows for a few paltry francs. She joins them on their journey and together they become quite an attraction earning more money than they've ever made. (imdb)
Enid
Enid (2009) - TV Movie
Illuminating and surprising drama telling the story of arguably the most popular children's storyteller of all, Enid Blyton. It reveals how Blyton became the writer who would capture more youthful imaginations than anyone else, following her career from ambitious, driven and as yet unpublished young woman to household name and moral guardian, while glimpsing her own childhood - a dark time, far from the carefree, happy idyll portrayed in her books. (bbc.co.uk)
Perfect Sense
A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.
Breaking the Mould
A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology. (imdb)
Bejewelled
Bejewelled (1991) - TV Movie
The made-for-cable Bejewelled stars Emma Samms as a museum curator. Entrusted with collection of valuable jewels, she heads to London. Here she is obligated to fend off any number of potential thieves. It is also up to her to determine whom she can trust and whom she can not. Dennis Lawson, Jade Maigri, Aeryk Egan, Dirk Benedict costar. (allrovi.com)
Broken
The story of a young girl in North London whose life changes after witnessing a violent attack. (imdb)
The Machine
Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, which is designed to help humanity. But things go wrong when the MoD steal their breakthrough and teach it to become a robotic weapon. (imdb)
The Round Tower
The Round Tower (1998) - TV Mini-Series
The youngest daughter of the Ratcliffe family feels alienated from her parents, who are more interested in their eldest daughter's upcoming marriage into one of their town's old families. A family friend, himself trapped in a loveless marriage, makes love to Vanessa and she becomes pregnant. Her parents are sure the father is an employee who hotly this and quits his job. But when he hears of the poor conditions she's living in he offers to marry her.
The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other. (imdb)
New Tricks
New Tricks (2003) - TV Series
Three retired police officers are drafted in to solve cold cases, with a touch of comedy and drama (imdb)
Just William
Just William (2010) - TV Series
Adaptation of Richmal Crompton's classic stories about a mischievous schoolboy.
Marchlands
Marchlands (2011) - TV Mini-Series
A supernatural drama telling the story of three different families living in the same house in 1968, 1987 and the present day, linked by the spirit of the young daughter of the 1960s family, who drowned in mysterious circumstances. (imdb)
Criminal Justice
Series 1 follows Ben Coulter who is accused of committing a crime that he has no recollection of after a drunken and drug-filled night out. Series 2 follows Juliet through the criminal justice system after she stabs her abusive husband. (imdb)
Reputations
Star Wars: Visions
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