Acting

James Cairncross

Born 1915-12-21 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK 9 films

James Cairncross was born on 21 December 1915 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Tom Jones (1963), Doctor Who (1963) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 17 December 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

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Filmography

9 films

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A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper…

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The Fool

★ 8.0 1990

Freddy Slater, a public relations man, has the day to end all days.

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Slater's Day

★ 0.0 1974

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast…

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Edna: The Inebriate Woman

★ 0.0 1971

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Ha…

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Hamlet

★ 8.0 1970

Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing th…

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Lay Down Your Arms

★ 7.5 1970

The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-p…

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Doctor Who: The Krotons

★ 6.4 1969

The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the Frenc…

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Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

★ 6.3 1964

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find…

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Tom Jones

★ 5.9 1963

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A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks…

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

★ 7.2 1962