Ian Reddington

Acting

Ian Reddington

Born 1957-09-25 · Walkley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Ian Reddington is an English actor with many stage and television credits since the early 1980s. He became widely known for television roles such as the Chief Clown in the Doctor Who serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Richard Cole in EastEnders and Vernon Tomlin in Coronation Street.

Acting credits

Highlander poster
6.9

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Highlander

1986

The Sisters Brothers poster
6.8

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

The Sisters Brothers

2018

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box poster
5.7

Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artefact that grants limitless wealth—but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box.

The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

2013

Fanged Up poster
5.2

A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims

Fanged Up

2017

Original Gangster poster
5.6

The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.

Original Gangster

2020

Red Devil poster
5.5

An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.

Red Devil

2019

Invasion: Planet Earth poster
5.2

On the same day that Tom Dunn finds out that he is to become a father again, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. When a gigantic, all-consuming alien mothership launches a ruthless attack, chaos and destruction follow. The ultimate war for Planet Earth is about to begin...

Invasion: Planet Earth

2019

Hard Feelings poster
8.0

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified home. But when Jane's boyfriend introduces a discordant note of reality from the streets, Viv plots her retribution. And behind her double-locked doors there are some hard feelings to contend with.

Hard Feelings

1984

It's Not Over poster
5.8

After Sarah’s husband Albert dies in a domestic accident, she is given the freedom to move forward with her other lover Max. Soon Max finds something disturbing in Sarah's behaviour, and he begins to question if Sarah isn't the person she says she is? Max then mysteriously disappears, and Sarah’s orderly life is brought into chaos.

It's Not Over

2022

Speak Like a Child poster
4.3

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty of the coastline is captured in stunning panoramas, while strong performances by the young cast help to create a lyrical and poignant drama.

Speak Like a Child

1998

Pommel poster
8.0

Set within the world of competitive gymnastics, Pommel is a coming-of-age drama about the tumultuous relationship between two young brothers as they compete for recognition and approval in an up coming gymnastics competition.

Pommel

2018

Skeletons poster
4.0

Set on the coastal town of Dungeness, skeletons tells the story of Rose, an aging sex line worker, who attempts to escapes a loveless marriage after she falls head over heels for a rotting corpse.

Skeletons

2022

The Spiritualist poster
5.5

Laura, suffering horrific night terrors and sleep paralysis, believes the sinister spirit haunting her is the ghost of her mother. Scared and desperate, she reaches out to the spiritualist to host a seance with her friends. Everyone is terrorised as the entity makes them all confront their worst fears.

The Spiritualist

2018

Red poster
3.7

When an ex-soldier awakes in a bath of ice to discover he’s missing a kidney, and worse - his daughter, he must fight his way through the ‘Organ Harvesting Den’ to find her before it’s too late.

Red

2020

Relish poster
NR

This warm and humorous observation of Sheffield's best kept secret weapon 'Hendo's', blows all other condiments out of the water. Musicians, politicians, artists and entertainers reflect on the legacy of Henderson's relish: a dietary staple for the true Sheffielder.

Relish

2016

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy poster
7.5

The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

1988

This Year's Model poster
NR

'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?

This Year's Model

1987

Who Needs a Heart poster
8.0

The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of sound and images. The radically discordant free jazz soundtrack provides a surreal counterpoint to the mix of newsreel and staged footage in this exhilarating experiment in documentary storytelling.

Who Needs a Heart

1991

The Wick poster
NR

A dark period-drama, set in the early 1800's in rural England, seventy-three years after witch trials were banned. When Esther, a local herbal healer, witnesses her sister's murder at the hands of a lawless but influential religious leader, she realizes only she can put an end to the deceit, blind ignorance and barbarity of these outdated beliefs for good

The Wick

2020

Zoe and the Astronaut poster
7.7

Zoe has suffered with Leukemia her whole life. When her condition worsens, she's given months to live. One day, a Young Astronaut crash lands near her home. Zoe spends her last days showing the Astronaut the wonders of Planet Earth.

Zoe and the Astronaut

2018

Cows, Cash & Cover-ups? Investigating VCJD poster
NR

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is the human version of mad cow disease and has been described as a "ticking time bomb" in Britain. This documentary explores the claims by families of vCJD victims that a criminal inquiry should be held to examine the possibility of a cover-up by authorities of BSE in farming and the food industry.

Cows, Cash & Cover-ups? Investigating VCJD

2019

Behind the camera