James Ellis

James Ellis

Legendary Northern Irish actor who came to prominence in the 1960s for his role of Bert Lynch in the BBC TV series Z Cars.

  • Title: James Ellis
  • Popularity: 4.584
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-03-15
  • Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland
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James Ellis Movies

  • 1980
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    High Rise Donkey

    High Rise Donkey

    1 1980 HD

    The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Wilfrid Brambell

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  • 1984
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    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    1 1984 HD

    Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family -...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 1983
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    A Matter of Choice for Billy

    A Matter of Choice for Billy

    4 1983 HD

    Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 1995
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    Priest

    Priest

    6.443 1995 HD

    Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Linus Roache

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  • 2000
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    Best

    Best

    6.15 2000 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Lynch

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  • 1989
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    Doctor Who: Battlefield

    Doctor Who: Battlefield

    6.8 1989 HD

    Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace, with the assistance of Brigadier...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Sylvester McCoy

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  • 1985
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    No Surrender

    No Surrender

    6.2 1985 HD

    It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Angelis

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  • 1995
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    Leapin' Leprechauns

    Leapin' Leprechauns

    3.3 1995 HD

    A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: John Bluthal

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  • 1996
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    Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

    Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

    3 1996 HD

    Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Gregory Smith

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  • 1996
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    Crossing the Floor

    Crossing the Floor

    6.7 1996 HD

    Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Tom Wilkinson

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  • 1995
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    Shadow of a Gunman

    Shadow of a Gunman

    1 1995 HD

    The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 1982
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    Too Late to Talk to Billy

    Too Late to Talk to Billy

    1 1982 HD

    Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Branagh

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  • 1987
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    Lorna

    Lorna

    1 1987 HD

    In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Brid Brennan

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  • 1998
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    Resurrection Man

    Resurrection Man

    6.1 1998 HD

    Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Stuart Townsend

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  • 1996
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    The Precious Blood

    The Precious Blood

    1 1996 HD

    Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Amanda Burton

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  • 2007
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    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    1 2007 HD

    Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: James Ellis

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  • 1987
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    Naming the Names

    Naming the Names

    1 1987 HD

    Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Sylvestra Le Touzel

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  • 2003
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    Conspiracy of Silence

    Conspiracy of Silence

    4.6 2003 HD

    When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jonathan Forbes

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  • 1980
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    The Long March

    The Long March

    1 1980 HD

    A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Ellis

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  • 1997
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    The Near Room

    The Near Room

    5.7 1997 HD

    Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Adrian Dunbar

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  • 1982
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    The Glory Hole

    The Glory Hole

    1 1982 HD

    Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.

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    Cast: Niall Tóibín

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  • 2010
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.771 2010 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Simon Rouse

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  • 1992
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    In Sickness and in Health

    In Sickness and in Health

    7.813 1992 HD

    Sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part' with the bad tempered Alf Garnett, who has not mellowed with the years and is as bigoted as ever.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warren Mitchell

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  • 1994
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.3 1994 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ian McShane

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  • 1993
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    Nightingales

    Nightingales

    6.4 1993 HD

    Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Ellis

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  • 1987
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    One by One

    One by One

    5.5 1987 HD

    One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987. The series, created by Anthony Read, followed the career of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Ellis

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  • 1988
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    A Question Of Entertainment

    A Question Of Entertainment

    1 1988 HD

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    Cast: Ken Dodd

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  • 1989
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.9 1989 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sylvester McCoy

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  • 1976
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    Softly, Softly

    Softly, Softly

    5 1976 HD

    Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Barron

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  • 2010
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 2010 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Derek Fowlds

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  • 1997
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    Common As Muck

    Common As Muck

    7.5 1997 HD

    Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their management staff. It ran for two series. The...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michelle Holmes

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  • 1990
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.622 1990 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lynda Bellingham

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  • 1967
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    King of the River

    King of the River

    1 1967 HD

    King of the River is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1966 and 1967. The series centred around the King family and their...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bernard Lee

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  • 1960
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.267 1960 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Richard Greene

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1986
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    Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

    Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

    6.417 1986 HD

    Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast:

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  • 1992
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    Wogan

    Wogan

    4.5 1992 HD

    Wogan is a British television chat show

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Terry Wogan

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  • 1991
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    So You Think You've Got Troubles

    So You Think You've Got Troubles

    1 1991 HD

    Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warren Mitchell

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  • 2001
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    Big Bad World

    Big Bad World

    6 2001 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ardal O'Hanlon

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  • 2009
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    Magic Grandad

    Magic Grandad

    6 2009 HD

    Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993....

    Genre: Kids

    Cast: Sam Kelly

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  • 1997
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    The Detectives

    The Detectives

    6.706 1997 HD

    The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Powell

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  • 2024
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    5.777 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 1982
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    Boys from the Blackstuff

    Boys from the Blackstuff

    7.821 1982 HD

    Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bernard Hill

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  • 1983
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    The Gathering Seed

    The Gathering Seed

    1 1983 HD

    The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Threlfall

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  • 1988
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    Troubles

    Troubles

    10 1988 HD

    In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian Charleson

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  • 1967
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    The Scales of Justice

    The Scales of Justice

    6.7 1967 HD

    Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Edgar Lustgarten

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  • 1978
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    Z-Cars

    Z-Cars

    7 1978 HD

    Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Frank Windsor

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  • 1978
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    Z-Cars

    Z-Cars

    7 1978 HD

    Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Frank Windsor

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  • 1987
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    The Marksman

    The Marksman

    1 1987 HD

    Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy's father, who returns from Spain to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Threlfall

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