
Anthony Strachan
Actor · Scotland
Scottish actor of stage, film and TV, Anthony Strachan has worked extensively in television including: Mountain Goats BBC 1; Bob Servant Series 2 BBC Scotland; Sunset Song Terence Davies; Bob Servant Independent BBC Scotland; Garrow’s Law Twenty Twenty Productions; Gary Tank Commander, Rab C Nesbitt, Will And Greg Sketch Show BBC Comedy Unit; Lip Service Kudos For BBC 3; Hotel Babylon Carnival Productions For BBC; Pramface, Holby City, Sunburn BBC; Inspector Rebus, Taggart SMG; High Times 2, High Times STV; Monarch Of The Glen Ecosse; Border Café Series Hartswood; Young Persons Guide To Being A Rockstar Channel 4 Television; Take The High Road Scottish Television. Antony’s film work includes: Sunset Song Terence Davies; Redirected Kino Kultas, Emilis Velyvis; Afterlife Gabriel Films; Sylvia Ariel Films; Once Upon A Time In The Midlands Midland Films; 16 Years Of Alcohol 16 Years Ltd; Young Blades Mario Andreacchio; The Trench William Boyd; Rbs Commerical; The Right Move Commerical. On the Stage Antony’s work includes: The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, National Theatre Of Scotland; Mother Goose, Perth Theatre; Sergeant Cracker’s Christmas Quest, Carnegie Hall; Peter Pan 360 Entertainment, San Francisco; Jack And The Beanstalk, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, ; Babes In The Wood, Aladdin Adam Smith Theatre; Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep and Festival Theatre Edinburgh; A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing Royal Lyceum; Once Upon A Dragon, The Houghmagandie Grid Iron; Elizabeth Gordon Quinn National Theatre of Scotland; Into The Dark Visible Fictions; Much Ado About Nothing, Worzel Gummidge Byre Theatre; Brazil The Latchmere Theatre; When The Dons Were Kings Lemon Tree; The Good Person Of Szechwan, Petra Tag Theatre Company; The Arbor Sheffield Crucible Theatre.
Movies14
Movie6.0ComedyAdventureTo escape a scandal, a bestselling author journeys to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle -- and faces off with the grumpy duke who owns it.
A Castle for Christmas
2021 · 366 votes
Movie5.3WarHistoryThe Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.
The Trench
1999 · 112 votes
Movie5.8ActionComedyFour friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
Redirected
2014 · 425 votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedyThe story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Whisky Galore
2016 · 54 votes
Movie5.9ActionComedyIn the dying days of World War II, Dick Dynamite and his ragtag team of Nazi-killing commandos must stop a group of depraved German scientists from turning the population of New York into flesh-eating zombies.
Dick Dynamite: 1944
2024 · 13 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceStory of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia
2003 · 124 votes
Movie6.1RomanceComedyThough Dek leads a simple and happy life with his girlfriend Shirley and her 12-year-old daughter Marlene, his grand, televised marriage proposal puts his devotion to the test—especially as Marlene's long-absent biological father, Jimmy, looms in the background.
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
2002 · 64 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryThe daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Sunset Song
2015 · 113 votes
Movie4.9CrimeDramaHoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Hoodwink
1981 · 7 votes
Movie6.4RomanceAdventureYoung Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a trio of Musketeers as they attempt to thwart a plot to send France and Spain into war.
Young Blades
2001 · 7 votes
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Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.
Movie6.0HorrorThe hideous murder of a young woman sparks a deadly obsession to uncover her murderer.
Ghost Crew
2022 · 3 votes
MovieActionHorrorSet in a dystopian future, in which – in a reversal of roles – the oppressed inhabitants of Innsmouth mount a violent bid for liberation against their hated human oppressors. Caught in the maelstrom of terror during the first night of their revolution is a young waitress, whose diner becomes the setting for brutal violence and unspeakable horror. But… who are the real monsters? The feared, fish-like creatures of Innsmouth, or the humans who keep them under lock and key?
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The Incredible Will & Greg is a concentrated burst of comedy starring comedy duo Will Andrews and Greg McHugh. The purposeful Pointy Man shows how to attract the object of your desires using only the power of the point, whilst the heroic Dr Frank cures a woman who hasn't spoken for three years whilst staging a three act play about a hippie with a lisp. The loveable Tony Carter has the driving lesson from hell and the infamous Spanish Man With A Cup gets involved in a hostage negotiation. The Incredible Will & Greg also sees the return of Gary Tank Commander.
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TV7.5CrimeDramaCreated from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Shetland
2013 · 216 votes
TV6.9CrimeDramaWhen a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?
Karen Pirie
2022 · 102 votes
TV7.7DramaThe true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Garrow's Law
2009 · 9 votes
TVComedyDramaComedy drama series from Preston Front writer Tim Firth. Set in the fictional town of Hale Point on the borders of England and Wales, home to a cross-section of amazing, colourful characters who, under normal circumstances, would never have met. Rock star Charlotte Smith quits at the height of her fame and buys the American diner on the outskirts of her home town so she can settle down with her builder boyfriend David Doyle. He invites his daft elder brother Kidder to become the chef while the nervous Ronnie gives up her life as "Charlotte" in a copycat band to become waitress. The Border Cafe becomes a meeting place for all sorts of curious characters and a centre of intrigue. But as the cafe takes off, the whole notion of whose life depends on whose starts to shift with dramatic consequences
Border Cafe
2000
TV5.8ComedyThe Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is a British comedy series, which aired on Channel 4 in 1998. It was a six-part satirical take on the music industry, written by Skins creator Bryan Elsley. The plot centered around a young Glaswegian band - Jocks Wa Hey - as they struggle to find success. The series won the 'Best Drama Serial' award at the 1999 RTS Television Awards and, that same year, writer Bryan Esley was nominated in the RTS 'Best Writer' category for the series. It was remade as My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star, a short-lived American/Canadian series that starred Oliver Hudson and was made for the now defunct The WB Television Network.
The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star
1998 · 8 votes
TV5.8ComedyDramaHigh Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.
High Times
2004 · 5 votes
TV8.0ComedySet around the antics of a ragtag group of Mountain Rescue volunteers, Mountain Goats celebrates the Highlands of Scotland, with proper kilt wearing maniacs fighting disaster on a weekly basis against the stunning backdrop of the Glencoe hills. When our heroes aren't out rescuing people, or being rescued themselves, they spend their time in 'The Old Goat' pub - a place of great warmth and camaraderie, where people come in for a quick pint and never want to leave. The regulars in the pub are Jimmy, an old school mountain goat with a fag burn in his jumper and a glint of mischief in his bloodshot eyes, the wild and mysterious Bill; Bernie, a cheery, hard-working woman, who keeps the others on the straight and narrow; and Conor, a handsome, easy-going young man who is more than a little bit naive. Their HQ is in the local pub, and the landlady is Jules - a formidable force of nature who'll have you out on your ear at the first sign of trouble.
Mountain Goats
2015 · 4 votes