Jim McManus

Acting

Jim McManus

Born 1940-05-19 · Bristol, England, UK

Acting credits

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix poster
7.7

When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

Pride poster
7.7

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

Pride

2014

Easy Virtue poster
6.5

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

Easy Virtue

2008

Murder by Decree poster
6.3

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have their roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.

Murder by Decree

1979

The Day the Earth Caught Fire poster
6.8

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961

Silver Dream Racer poster
5.6

Nick Freeman is a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Silver Dream Racer

1980

Hornblower: Loyalty poster
7.3

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

Beat Girl poster
5.9

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.

Beat Girl

1960

Danger Within poster
6.3

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Danger Within

1959

The Square Peg poster
6.5

Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero

The Square Peg

1958

Sweeney 2 poster
6.2

Second theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Regan and Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

Sweeney 2

1978

Sharpe's Siege poster
7.2

Winter, 1813. Sharpe marries his sweetheart, Jane Gibbons, but has to leave her immediately to go on a dangerous mission in the Pyrenees, to capture a French fort. While Sharpe is battling with the French, his wife contracts a deadly fever which has swept through the British camp and endangers her life. Sharpe encounters his old enemy, Ducos and is compelled to stay at the fort and fight for his country, knowing that even if he survives he may never see his beloved bride again.

Sharpe's Siege

1996

Just Ask for Diamond poster
5.6

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

Just Ask for Diamond

1988

Buddy's Song poster
5.7

Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...

Buddy's Song

1991

Lawless Heart poster
5.2

In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.

Lawless Heart

2002

Running Late poster
9.0

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.

Running Late

1992

The Trial of Klaus Barbie poster
NR

Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

1987

Night's Vampires poster
1.0

A young Russian woman who is actually a vampire is being used by a prostitution ring. They are in fact supplying girls to be killed by rich and perverted clients. She finds the list of the clients involved in this traffic and starts her revenge.

Night's Vampires

2004