Bruce Jones

Acting

Bruce Jones

Born 1953-01-24 · Collyhurst, Manchester, England, UK

Bruce Jones is a British film and television actor, best known for his role as Les Battersby in the television series _Coronation Street_ for several years, as well as the feature films _Raining Stones_ and _The Full Monty_.

Acting credits

The Full Monty poster
7.0

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

The Full Monty

1997

The Heritage poster
7.3

After growing up adopted, a man makes a gargantuan discovery when meeting his biological father.

The Heritage

2022

TwentyFourSeven poster
6.2

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

TwentyFourSeven

1998

Distorted poster
5.0

When attractive secretary Sarah Parker, sets out for an illicit weekend in the countryside with Steve, her adulterous office manager, the clandestine weekend takes a horrifying turn when ...

Distorted

2015

Raining Stones poster
6.9

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to increasingly questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

Raining Stones

1993

Exhuming 'The Messengers' poster
NR

DVD featurette about the creation of “The Messengers.”

Exhuming 'The Messengers'

2007

Pin Cushion poster
6.4

Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes 'best friends' with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour.

Pin Cushion

2018

Carry On Ken poster
NR

A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.

Carry On Ken

2006

SoulBoy poster
5.7

1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.

SoulBoy

2010

Hillsborough poster
7.2

Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.

Hillsborough

1996

The Krays: Gangsters Behind Bars poster
8.0

Steve Wraith had a fascination with the Krays, and after writing them letters Reg took an instant liking to him, even requesting Steve visit with his brother Ron, in Broadmoor. They would go on to ask Steve to take over their business interests in the outside world. As it turned out, this was an exercise in trust, grooming him, as what came next was a stark lesson in just how terrifying the Krays could be, even behind bars.

The Krays: Gangsters Behind Bars

2021

Blighty poster
NR

A broken man attempts to disappear into the warm comfort of his long-gone past.

Blighty

2021

Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2 poster
10.0

Harry Hill returns to DVD for a second volume of TV Burp Gold, with a brand new selection of the funniest bits from the Multi BAFTA winning, hit series, TV Burp. Some of TV's biggest shows such as Coronation Street, East Enders, Dancing On Ice and The X Factor get the full Harry treatment. It's crammed with hilarious jokes, funny clips and silly sketches plus a host of extras including "unseen" TV Burp and side-splitting out-takes.

Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2

2009

Bob's Weekend poster
9.0

Robert Askew goes to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his extra ordinary life. But this is no ordinary weekend and a succession of magical events conspire to turn a journey of despair into a voyage of discovery.

Bob's Weekend

1996

Looters, Tooters and Sawn-Off Shooters poster
6.0

Ex-gangster Charlie Thompson returns to London after the tragic death of his young nephew Danny which he believes to have been caused by the same callous hands that killed his brother George many years ago. Taking the law into his own hands Charlie meets up with former acquaintances ready to settle old scores and save his last remaining nephew Frankie the last of the Thompson bloodline. However, Charlie has been out the game for a while and he soon realizes that a lot has changed.

Looters, Tooters and Sawn-Off Shooters

2014

Cream poster
10.0

Cream is a black comedy set around 21st century social issues, specifically the UK care and welfare system. Described in style as reminiscent of the new wave British cinema movement.

Cream

2015