John Bowler

Acting

John Bowler

London, England, UK

John Bowler is an English film and television actor and writer.

Acting credits

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Influencer INC. is a satirical comedy about Jasmin, a stressed influencer who live-streams her search for an assistant. As she navigates quirky candidates, the film humorously explores the chaotic pressures of social media fame.

Influencer INC

Harrigan poster
4.7

Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.

Harrigan

2013

Breakout poster
9.0

Two boys are kidnapped by three escaping convicts and the relationship which develops between captor and captured brings out the good side of the most dangerous criminal's character.

Breakout

1984

In Extremis poster
4.0

A night watchman is sent to guard the cellar of a museum by its mysterious curator, but once alone in these vaults he starts to hear something. IN EXTREMIS is a short in the mould of classic British horror films of the 1960s and 70s.

In Extremis

2014

The Beggar Bride poster
8.2

How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...

The Beggar Bride

1997

The Tribe poster
5.2

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.

The Tribe

1998

A Woman at War poster
6.5

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.

A Woman at War

1991

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3.7

Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the city at the same time: the millionaire Eric Burns; the German woman Eva Miller who, with her little daughter Gudrun, makes herself a living by doing frauds and small thefts; the smart gangster Rustum Wadi who is looking for a talisman that at that moment is in the hands of Andrews, a homosexual British collector. Yaasin is supposed to protect Burns, but when Andrew's corpse appears the case takes an unexpected turn.

Tangier Cop

1997

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5.0

A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.

Mr White Goes To Westminster

1997

Fungus the Bogeyman poster
3.2

BBC adaptation of Raymond Briggs' children's book. Fungus (voice of Mak Wilson)'s job is to venture above Bogeydom and scare dry-cleaners (a Bogey's name for humans). But on one trip disaster strikes and a dry-cleaner discovers their existence in Bogeydom. The dry-cleaner, Jessica (Clare Thomas), strikes up a friendship with Fungus' children and escapes back home to tell her father George (Martin Clunes) all about it. George then decides to stake-out the entrance to Bogeydom, in order to catch a real-life Bogeyman.

Fungus the Bogeyman

2004

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8.0

The 1998 dramatization of a 1970s UK miscarriage of justice, centered around Stefan Khizcho, and his mother's subsequent battle for his freedom.

A Life for a Life

1998

The Lady Irene poster
NR

A fisherman is about to launch his new trawler and wants to make it an occasion for his girlfriend to remember.

The Lady Irene

1978

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale poster
7.5

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

1982

Stone, Scissors, Paper poster
10.0

Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.

Stone, Scissors, Paper

1997

The Merrihill Millionaires poster
NR

They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.

The Merrihill Millionaires

1993

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NR

A social commentary based thriller about the eventful year of London 2011, told through the eyes of HERO, the main character. With a 2012 Olympic style feel to the film, as well as some of the recent urban issues re-enactment, it is set to be a very current and topical short.

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2014

A Boy Called Woof! poster
7.0

Eric was a normal boy until he started turning into a dog! A stand-alone movie release from the British TV series, "Woof!"

A Boy Called Woof!

1991