
Willie Joss
Actor · 1909 – 1987 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Movies9
Movie6.8ComedyDramaAn 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.
Local Hero
1983 · 418 votes
Movie5.8DramaFamilyStuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
Ring of Bright Water
1969 · 25 votes
- Movie
' I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare.' Those are the words of 16-year-old Janie as she comes to the end of a seven-year stay at an Aberdeenshire orphanage. (BBC Genome)
Movie8.0HistoryJames Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.
Every Picture Tells a Story
1984 · 1 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieWhen a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.
Movie8.4DramaComedyIt's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
Just Another Saturday
1975 · 5 votes
- MovieDramaHistory
Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II.
Hess
1978
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieThree stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Orkney
1971 · 1 votes
Movie7.0FamilyDramaA story of youthful rivalry in a Highland fishing port.
The Big Catch
1968 · 2 votes
Series4
TV5.8DramaMysteryMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Mystery and Imagination
1966 · 5 votes
TVCrimeDramaThe View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.
TV8.0DramaWar & PoliticsIn Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.
The Eagle of the Ninth
1977 · 4 votes
- TVDrama
The job of Velma Hardy and her Personality Promotions team is to put glamour into sales drives.