Willie Ross
The Bishop Auckland-born entertainer began as a comic on the North-East club circuit, teaming up with Peter Lambert to become Lambert and Ross, a duo that became nationally known. When the partnership folded in the 1980s, Willie became a successful actor, with hits in film, TV and on stage. His big break was as the foul-mouthed father in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too. He went on to acclaimed roles in Ken Loachs Riff Raff and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. On TV he was seen in Our Friends In The North, and One Foot In The Grave, to name but a few. He died in 2000, following an accident at home. He was 62.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as RoyThe wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her...
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Restoration
as Man with Visible HeartAn aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and...
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Blow Dry
as Louis's VolunteerThe annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian...
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Swept from the Sea
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall...
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Riff-Raff
as Gus SiddonStevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working...
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
as Sue's FatherRita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a...
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Hillsborough
as Additional CastDrama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were...
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Bodywork
as Homeless ManVirgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon....
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Honest
as WoodbineThe film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls...
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Road
as DadA view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and...
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Purely Belter
as GingaGerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for...
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Dealers
as Anna's DoormanThe London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a...
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And a Nightingale Sang
as Harold, the CommunistSet in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the...
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Loop
as Geordie TruckerRachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker...
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Secret Society
as Mr SwanleyDaisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But...
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A Pinch of Snuff
as Johnnie HopeReceiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the...
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Lucky Sunil
as BeadleYoung, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold...
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Doomwatch: Winter Angel
as Mr FultonUniversity lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored...
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Treacle
as First ManOld Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my...
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Minder
as Stan SorrellThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Heartbeat
as Jonty WalshSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Tales from the Crypt
as BarmanCadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...
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One Foot In the Grave
as uncreditedOne Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of...
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The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
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The Storyteller
as TinkerThe Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as uncreditedBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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Our Friends in the North
as Gordon PeacockAn epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.
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The Ice House
as Wally FerrisA corpse is found in an ice house ten years after Phoebe's husband went missing. The police seem...
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