Acting
Allan Sharpe
Born 1949-01-13 · Falkirk, Scotland, UK
Acting credits
5.0Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.
The Near Room
1997
At a hyponotist show, a woman is hypnotised and reveals all her family's dark secrets...
Truth
1996
6.7A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic book series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.
The Bogie Man
1992
6.8While visiting the island of Skua, reliable Tim and his blind sister Janey are joined by a waif-like "witch" named Perdita in an effort to foil a gang of jewel thieves.
The Witch's Daughter
1996
10.0A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.
The Star
1996
10.0The inhabitants of a remote Scottish village live and learn.
As an Eilean
1993
9.0Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India, it takes on the international population "establishment", challenging the entrenched view that overpopulation alone is responsible for poverty and environmental destruction.
The Legacy of Malthus
1994