Acting

James Woolley

Born 1945-01-01 · Taunton, Somerset, England, UK

James Woolley was born in 1945 in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK. He is an actor, known for What a Girl Wants (2003), I'll Be There (2003) and One for Sorrow (2022).

Acting credits

Greenfingers poster
6.3

Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts the attention of flamboyant gardening expert Georgina Woodhouse, she offers to sponsor the inmates in an upcoming flower show. At the Hampton Court Flower Show, Colin meets Georgina's daughter and romance is in bloom.

Greenfingers

2001

The Firm poster
6.5

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.

The Firm

1989

S*P*Y*S poster
5.2

Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.

S*P*Y*S

1974

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story poster
6.3

The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

2008

In the Secret State poster
7.0

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.

In the Secret State

1985

Sitting in Limbo poster
6.9

Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.

Sitting in Limbo

2020

Framed poster
4.1

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh mountain, as they were during the Second World War. Soon after Quentin is settled in North Wales admittedly more at home in a cave among his paintings than he is with other people he unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that wake up this sleepy, charming town. After mistaking local boy Dylan Hughes for an art history genius, Quentin finds himself in the middle of mayhem.

Framed

2009

Quincy's Quest poster
6.0

It's the night before Christmas, and all the toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the furnace. This includes Quincy, a most lifelike doll. In a last ditch effort to save himself and his "unwanted" chums from incineration, he goes on a long and perilous journey in search of the only one who can save them: Santa Claus.

Quincy's Quest

1979

Illusive Crime poster
5.3

Experimental narrative dealing with female oppression/class control. Controversial at time, especially among feminists.

Illusive Crime

1976

The Unknown Soldier poster
NR

The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

The Unknown Soldier

1985

Telling Tales poster
5.5

TELLING TALES is about the failing marriage of an industrialist and his wife, about the industrialist's wish to sell his company to a colleague, Paul Roberts, and about the terminally ill wife of Paul, Ingrid. It is also about the shop steward organising a strike at Paul's factory that jeopardises the deal with the industrialist, and about the wife of the shop steward, who happens to clean and cook for the industrialist. A network of intertwined tales told in different ways, and for very different motives, by the main protagonists.

Telling Tales

1978

No artwork available
NR

Kafkaesque story of man arrested and imprisoned for no reason, and then – in impressionistic style – forced to reflect on his life.

A Prison Should Be Dark

1971