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Ian Bannen
29 June 1928
Ian Bannen played in 14 movies in the Drama, War, Music, Comedy, Crime, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Adventure, Western, Family, Romance, Biography genres.
Ian Bannen got succeed with average imdb rating 6.6.
A respected character actor and occasional leading man of the juncture, screen, and television, Scottish-born Ian Bannen acted in over 80 productions during his long career. Presently after enrolling at Ratcliffe College, Bannen, who was born in Airdrie, Scotland, on June 29, 1918, made his first stage presence at Dublin's Gate Coliseum. A year after making his 1955 London phony debut, he entered films with A Private's Progress and Contend Hell.
A prolific situation actor (with
... a extra fondness for the works of Eugene O'Neill), Bannen nonetheless rest pass‚ seeing that quite a few impressive film characterizations. Unified of these, the cynical Crow in Run away of the Phoenix (1965), earned him an Academy Award nomination. His later screen assignments ranged from a cameo as a policeman in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) to the irascible Grandfather George in John Boorman's Trust and Glory (1987) to a turn as Robert the Bruce's leprous father in Braveheart (1995). It was with the 1998 comedy Waking Ned Devine that Bannen earned some of his best notices, playing a loveably crafty Irishman. Sadly, Bannen's life was cut short the following year, as he died in an auto accident on November 3, 1999, near Loch Ness, Scotland. He was survived on his woman of 23 years, as well as a aromatic theatrical legacy that stretched during practically half a century.
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