Acting

Jean Faulds

Acting credits

The French Lieutenant's Woman poster
6.5

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981

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NR

' I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare.' Those are the words of 16-year-old Janie as she comes to the end of a seven-year stay at an Aberdeenshire orphanage. (BBC Genome)

The White Bird Passes

1980

Restless Natives poster
6.8

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals.

Restless Natives

1985

The Riveter poster
NR

An out of work father is under pressure from social workers and his criminal friends.

The Riveter

1988

No artwork available
NR

Set in the beautiful Isle of Arran where an over enthusiastic amateur detective becomes involved in a plot to rob Brodick Castle of its collection of antique silver.

Nosey Dobson

1976

End of the Line poster
NR

Life in a Scottish New Town

End of the Line

1984

Shepherd on the Rock poster
7.0

A developer tries to take over a Scottish shepherd's land.

Shepherd on the Rock

1993

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8.0

When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

Just Your Luck

1972

Ploughman's Share poster
NR

When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.

Ploughman's Share

1979

The Chalk Mark poster
NR

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.

The Chalk Mark

1988