Angus MacInnes
Birthday: Born in 1947-10-27 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: 2024-12-23
Angus MacInnes (27 October 1947 – 23 December 2024) was a Canadian actor. He is most famous for his role as Jon "Dutch" Vander (Gold Leader) in Star Wars, and as former hockey great Jean "Rosey" LaRose in the comedy Strange Brew. He also appeared in Witness as a corrupt policeman, as a gangster seeking stolen cocaine in Atlantic City, and he has appeared in BBC Scotland soap River City as Sonny. MacInnes died on 23 December 2024, at the age of 77. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angus MacInnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Between the Lines
Character:
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean....
Space Island One
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Walter B. Shannon
Space Island One is a British/German science fiction television series that ran for 26 episodes beginning in 1998. A co-production between the UK's Sky One channel and the German Vox channel, it starred Judy Loe as Kathryn McTiernan, the commander of the multinational crew of the space station Unity. Described as “a mix of Moonbase 3 and Jupiter Moon, but more turgid than either, other sources describe it as "The best science fiction show you've never heard of… The show unflinchingly looks at t...
Lovejoy
Character: Chuck Fellowes
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 “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries....
Vikings
Character: Tostig
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors....
Howards' Way
Character: Robert Lazell
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne....
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Dobrowski
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000....
Roughnecks
Character: Jake
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 of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea....
The New Statesman
Character: Captain Hirsch
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time....
Space: 1999
Character: Jelto
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space....
The Play on One
Character: Barney Bascoe
A series of plays specially written for television....
Movie Credits
Star Wars
Character: Gold Leader
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire....
Outland
Character: Hughes
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him....
Yesterday's Children
Character: Sam Casey
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life....
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Character: Policeman #1
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum....
Atlantic City
Character: Vinnie
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger....
Flight of Fury
Character: Generale Barnes
John, a secret government operative is sent to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber from the hands of terrorist organization which plans to use it in a deadly attack, with warheads containing bio-weapons....
Witness
Character: Fergie
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother....
Strange Brew
Character: Jean LaRose
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of vicious hockey players....
The Black Dahlia
Character: Capt. John Tierney
In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress....
Rollerball
Character: Jonathan's Guard
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game....
The Wreck on the Highway
Character: Barney Bascoe
In Edinburgh washed up country-and-western singer John McGuire is broke and his family is emigrating. He and grandson Billy share the same dreams. They run away together in search of John's wealthy American ex-co-star Betsy Hall....
Bedroom Eyes
Character: Lathan
A young businessman, out jogging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window. He is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect....
Force 10 from Navarone
Character: Reynolds
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past....
The Sender
Character: Sheriff Prouty
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him....
Loose Ends
Character: Urjak Kukoff
When the zealous followers of the Church of the Divine Light collide with the heathen filmmakers heaven help those caught in the middle! Bishop Wally, the cult's corrupt founder, must liquidate his assets or face the wrath of the IRS, unaware that his too-slick tax advisor Lodz Kuckoff has unwittingly set the stage for calamity. Kuckoff promises a filmmaker, Liberty Jean, that he'll secure the million dollars she needs to make her dream project, an expose on sex in advertising. She reluctantly a...
If You Could See What I Hear
Character: Policeman
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan....
Cougar
Character:
A flash flood sweeps a boy and his sister onto an island in the Mississippi River, where they are trapped with a cougar and her new born cubs. In an effort to escape the island, they find themselves threatened by two ruthless river-men who will stop at nothing to kidnap and hold the children for ransom....
Dirty Tricks
Character: FBI Agent Jones
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop)....
Nothing Personal
Character: Military Policeman #2
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter....
Captain Phillips
Character: Maersk Alabama Crew
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years....
Eyes Wide Shut
Character: Gateman #1
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head....
Half Moon Street
Character: Bill Rafferty
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty...
Spies, Inc.
Character: Vic
Spies from different nationalities stationed in a small Asian island work out a plot to create an international incident taking profit from it. Defrauding CIA through fake reports and running a front company using operating funds, they control the island and use the skills acquired in the service of their countries to pursue their personal dreams of wealth and happiness....
Rhythm & Blues
Character: Bad Daddy
John, lonely and living in London, unexpectedly meets outlandish druggie skinhead Byron, and suddenly, John's life turns to wacky. When Byron takes him to Boys Galore, a gay escort agency, John is introduced to wealthy American Bad Daddy, who hires John on the spot. But the hovering presence of a strange and sinister Ripper, another rent boy, threatens derail the evening of fun in this gay thriller comedy....
Enigma
Character: Commander Hammerbeck
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines....
Elstree 1976
Character: Self
A documentary about ten very different lives connected by having appeared onscreen wearing masks or helmets in Star Wars....
First Run: The Evolution Of Silent Running's Screenplay
Character: Voice Artist
A visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running's screenplay...
Spasms
Character: Deacon Tyrone
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation....
Sleepers
Character: Bill Sullivan
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection....
The 51st State
Character: Pudsey Smith
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit....
Superman II
Character: Prison Warder
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet....
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Character: Detective Ronson
Confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty Cotton insists her supposedly dead father is stuck in hell, controlled by sadomasochistic demons after being betrayed by his evil, occult-obsessed wife, Julia. Few believe Kirsty, except the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard, who is intrigued by the young woman's lurid stories. So when Kirsty and fellow patient Tiffany head to hell for a rescue, Channard and Julia are close behind....
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: Gold Leader Dutch Vander
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy....
The Jacket
Character: Judge
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves....
Hellboy
Character: Sgt. Whitman
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America a...
Honor Bound
Character:
US soldier gets involved in Cold War shenanigans in East Germany....
Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
Character: Professor Hill
When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of....
Judge Dredd
Character: Judge Silver
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes....
Amen.
Character: Tittman
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers....
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Character: Prison Warden
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth....
High Plains Invaders
Character: Silich Cure
In the Old West an outlaw named Sam Phoenix is about to be hanged. But just before the noose tightens, the town is besieged by a lethal alien invader with a laser-shooting stingray and a crazy Sarlacc mouth. The townsfolk scramble but get promptly smoked, save for a handful of survivors led by Phoenix....
I Am the Architect
Character: Architect
An elderly retired Modernist Architect called Clive, In his attic, Clive builds a model of a modernist Utopian City....
84 Charing Cross Road
Character: Ed
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today....
Fellow Traveller
Character: Lawyer
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide....
The Krays
Character: Palendri
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s....