Ian Bannen
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
Hill, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear
- Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…
- One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
Too Late The Hero (Suicide Run) (1970)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen…
- An impressive WW2 actioner from one of the experts, dir. Aldrich (ATTACK) investing a dangerous mission in the Pacific with a certain moral…
Jane Eyre (1970)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen…
- Susannah York and George C. Scott headline this fine adaptation of the Bronte classic.
Demons of the Mind (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…
- A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
Doomwatch (1972)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ian Bannen, George Sanders
- Based on the British TV–series, Ian Bannen investigates the effects of an oil spill on an isolated Cornish community. Ecological themes to the…
Fright (1972)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman…
- A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.
Offence, The (1973)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant…
- One of the better Lumet films. Sean Connery – in a rare impressive performance – as a British cop who loses control while interrogating a…
Voyage, The (Il Viaggio) (1974)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen
- Melodrama from Italian master De Sica sees an incurably ill Sophia Loren torn between the love of two brothers (Richard Burton and Ian Bannen, both…
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…
- Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) (1978)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Ian Bannen
- Enjoyably sleazy cult war film following a group of shamed American soldiers who manage to escape their captives en route to military prison, only to…
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Bette Davis, David McCallum, Carroll Baker…
- One of Disney's spookier efforts, this concerns a family who move into a country house in Britain and are beset with supernatural occurances.…
Night Crossing (1981)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges…
- A gripping account of the true attempt by two East German families to flee to the West in 1979 using a home–made hot air balloon. Cast all lend…
Gorky Park (1983)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy…
- William Hurt plays a brooding Russian detective investigating horrific murders in Moscow. Meaty, convincing thriller.
Defence of the Realm (1985)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott…
- Atmospheric nuclear conspiracy thriller of the old–school.
George's Island (1989)
- Dir. Paul Donovan
Feat. Ian Bannen, Sheila McCarthy, Maury Chaykin…
- Fleeing his nasty foster parents, 10–year old George goes in search of Captain Kidd's buried treasure, having to outwit, among other adults,…
Politician's Wife, The (TV mini-series) (1995)
- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Minnie Driver…
- Hell hath no fury like Juliet Stevenson in this Bafta and Emmy award–winning drama as a woman humiliated by the public revelation that her…
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
- Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Ian Bannen
- When national lottery winner Ned Devine carks it, a cunning old codger (Ian Bannen) assumes his identity to claim the loot, and finds no shortage of…