Billy Connolly
Actor
Films to Rent
- Absolution (1978)
- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly
-
- Billy Connolly - Bites Yer Bum (1981)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- Selected highlights from the end of Connelly's 1980–1981 tour, live at the Apollo Victoria, London. The Scots comedian is in fine lunatic form.
- Bullshot (1983)
- Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Alan Shearman, Billy Connolly, Michael Aldridge…
- Silly comedy starring Alan Shearman as 'Bullshot Crummond', a dunderheaded WW1 fighter pilot who must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto…
- Billy Connolly - An Audience With (1985)
- Dir. Alisdair MacMillan
Feat. Billy Connolly
- Selected highlights of Connelly's legendary television appearance in 1985 in front of a studio audience.
A leopard skin shirt, long hair and the…
- Water (1985)
- Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Michael Caine, Billy Connolly, Valerie Perrine…
- When oil is discovered on a peaceful Caribbean outpost island it swiftly finds itself embroiled in a political upheaval with all sides fighting for…
- Comic Relief (1986)
- Feat. Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan…
- The stars of THE YOUNG ONES (along with many other stellar Brit comedians) perform for charity, in this irreverant satirical stageshow.
- Billy Connolly - Billy and Albert (1987)
- Dir. Nobby Clark
Feat. Billy Connolly
- Unexpurgated pure Billy, live at the Royal Albert Hall in July 1987. Some of the topics that Connolly gives his own idiosyncratic slant to are…
- Big Man, The (1990)
- Dir. David Leland
Feat. Liam Neeson, Billy Connolly, Joanne Whalley
- An intense morality tale set in the heart of Scotland, ill–fortuned family man Liam Neeson risks life and limb to compete in a…
- Paws (1997)
- Dir. Karl Zwicky
Feat. Billy Connolly
- Post–BABE talking dog, PC (voice by Billy Connolly) and budding boy detective Zac, dig into the murder of PC's master, who's hidden a million…
- Mrs. Brown (Her Majesty Mrs. Brown) (1997)
- Dir. John Madden
Feat. Judi Dench, Billy Connolly
- Finely accomplished drama about the passionate, if platonic, friendship between Queen Victoria and her loyal servant – a relationship that…
- Still Crazy (1999)
- Dir. Brian Gibson
Feat. Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Bruce Robinson…
- Victims of 70s music–biz burnout, the assorted members of rockers Strange Fruit reform (before they go completely soft) for this ripe satire on…
- Debt Collector, The (1999)
- Dir. Anthony Neilson
Feat. Billy Connolly, Francesca Annis
- Billy Connelly plays it straight as former hard man who finds latter day respectability as a novelist and sculptor, but the resentful, dishonoured…
- Boondock Saints, The (1999)
- Dir. Troy Duffy
Feat. Sean Patrick Flannery, Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe…
- Irish–Bostonian brothers Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus become vigilante saints after knocking off some Russkie wise guys, becoming…
- An Everlasting Piece (2000)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Billy Connolly…
- Dir. Levinson heads east of Baltimore for a bravely irreverent slice of Northern Irish sectarian humour, with Barry McEvoy (who also scripted) and…
- Man Who Sued God, The (2001)
- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes…
- Above–average satire in which disgruntled fisherman Billy Connolly slaps a lawsuit on the Big Guy after an ‘act of God’ sinks his…
- Billy Connolly - World Tour of... (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- TV series following comedian Billy Connolly on tour throughout the world.
"World Tour of England, Scotland and Wales" (available to rent):…
- White Oleander (2002)
- Dir. Peter Kosminsky
Feat. Robin Wright, Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger…
- Drama of maternal–deprival sees teenager Alison Lohman cut adrift in the world when her poet mother (Pfeiffer) is jailed for murder.
Passing…
- Who is Cletis Tout? (2002)
- Dir. Chris Ver Wiel
Feat. Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Portia de Rossi…
- Shifty, light–headed crime caper features Christian Slater as a grifter mistakingly earmarked for death after he assumes the alias of a…
- Last Samurai, The (2003)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton…
- Swathed in the scenery of New Zealand, this enactment of the Japanese civil wars of the late 19th century is an ambitious, though…
- Timeline (2003)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Frances O’Connor…
- Time–travel actioner adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton (JURASSIC PARK) in which a group of students race through a wormhole in time to…
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
- Dir. Brad Silberling
Feat. Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connolly…
- Unfolding as a series of beautifully designed events, this Hollywood adaptation of the popular fantasy books fortunately doesn't water down the…
- Billy Connolly - World Tour of New Zealand (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- The special New Zealand segment of comedian Billy Connolly's 2004 world tour, which has the crazed Scot covering the length of the country over eight…
- Aristocrats, The (2005)
- Dir. Paul Provenza
Feat. Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, Billy Connolly…
- One hundred venerable comedians perform, scrutinise and riff on a particularly dirty joke (touted as the world's most obscene), which has apparently…
- Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006)
- Dir. Tim Hill
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Murray, Billy Connolly…
- Sardonic feline Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) and his owner travel to England in this demure and vastly superior sequel, where the purrfect one…
- Fido (2006)
- Dir. Andrew Currie
Feat. Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, K'Sun Ray
- Day–glo zombie comedy takes the increasingly dog–eared genre to a new meta–level with its premise of zombies being domesticated as…
- X-Files - I Want to Believe (2008)
- Dir. Chris Carter
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly…
- The second big screen outing for the X–Files crew, 10 years on, with former FBI agents Mulder and Scully recruited onto a case involving…
- Billy Connolly - Journey To The Edge Of The World (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- Amiable travelogue follows comedian Billy Connolly as he takes his luscious locks on a 10–week voyage from the Atlantic through to the Pacific…
- Gulliver's Travels (2010)
- Dir. Rob Letterman
Feat. Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel…
- Raucous adaptation of the Jonathan Swift classic with Jack Black at his brashest.
- Billy Connolly's You Asked For It (2011)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- A stacked compilation of Billy Connolly's most requested comedy clips, including his first ever live TV performance, broadcast in 1976.
- Billy Connolly's Route 66 (2011)
- Feat. Billy Connolly
- Billy Connolly goes all 'Easy Rider' in this breezy American travelogue by motorcycle, stretching some 2488 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica.
- Brave (2012)
- Dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Feat. Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson…
- Pixar's latest winning animation centres on an impetuous Scottish princess torn between her royal duty to the kingdom and her true desire to become…
- Quartet (2012)
- Dir. Dustin Hoffman
Feat. Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly…
- Another pleasant surprise for the retiree set, this time centred on a home for retired musicians, and the recently arrived opera diva (Maggie Smith)…
- What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
- Dir. Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
Feat. Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly…
- Amiable British comedy with Rosamund Pike and David Tennant as a bickering, divorcing couple, who take their kids from London to Scotland, to visit…