Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly

Date of Birth: 24 Nov 1942

Country: UK

Biography: Scottish comedian and musician. He has also played some dramatica roles.

Total Credits at Criticker: 50 (Actor), 6 (Writer)

Biography submitted by Hailey

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    The Boondock Saints
    Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (imdb)
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    An Everlasting Piece
    Against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast in the 1980s, two fellow barbers -- Colm, a Catholic, and George, a Protestant -- form an unlikely partnership to corner the toupee market in Northern Ireland. (DreamWorks)
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    The Last Samurai
    The paths of two warriors converge when the Emperor of Japan hires a Civil War veteran to train Japan's first modern army. As he encounters the Samurai traditions, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.
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    Lemony Snicket\
    Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. (imdb)
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    Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
    Queen Victoria (Dench) was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown (Connolly) was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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    Overnight
    This documentary look at the rise and fall of filmmaker Troy Duffy (The Boondock Saints) is a stunning, often hilarious look at how, even in the shark-infested waters of moviemaking, one's teeth can be too sharp. (Film Forum)
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    Timeline
    A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued. (imdb)
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    White Oleander
    Based on the acclaimed best-selling novel by Janet Fitch, White Oleander follows a young woman's journey through hardship and loss to maturity, joy and true independence. (Warner Bros.)
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    Who Is Cletis Tout?
    Cletis Tout is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hit man who sees everything in terms of the movies and a twenty year old diamond heist. (imdb)
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    Pocahontas
    An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
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    Indecent Proposal
    A married woman agrees to have sex with another man for $1,000,000. (imdb)
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    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    Garfield, America's favorite cat, is going continental. He's traveling across the pond to surprise his master, Jon Arbuckle, who is in London to propose to his girlfriend, veterinarian Liz Wilson.
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    Water
    Farce about a British diplomat to a West Indian island nation who finds his idyllic existance thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there. (imdb)
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    Muppet Treasure Island
    The Muppet's twist on the classic tale. (imdb)
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    Still Crazy
    "Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during an open-air. (imdb)
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    Open Season
    A happily domesticated grizzly bear named Boog, has his perfect world turned upside down after he meets Elliot, a scrawny, fast-talking one-horned wild mule deer. They both end up stranded together in the woods during hunting season and it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters. (imdb)
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    The Man Who Sued God
    Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the geise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis). (imdb)
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    Fuck
    A definitive look at the infamous expletive, this film explores how this oft-used word, still widely seen as obscene, somehow permeates every aspect of our culture - from Hollywood, to the schoolyard, to the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., where it is at the very center of the ongoing debate on free speech. (ThinkFilm)
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    Fido
    Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out. (imdb)
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    Gentlemen\
    Kingdom Swann is a talented but rather naive Scottish artist who lives in Edwardian London with his housekeeper, Violet, a dowdy and self-effacing but very loyal young woman from Lancashire. He is dismayed to find that there is no longer a demand for his style of paintings. Then Violet buys him a camera from the local market stall... (imdb)
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    Screen One
    Screen One (1985) - TV Series
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    The X-Files: I Want to Believe
    In grand "X-Files" manner, the film's storyline is being kept under wraps. This much can be revealed: It is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the complicated relationship between Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits.
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    Beautiful Joe
    An extremely nice guy falls for a really bad girl. (imdb)
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    Open Season 2
    Open Season 2 (2008) - Direct-to-Video
    After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. (imdb)
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    Absolution
    Father Goddard hears confessions at a catholic school. In confession, student Benjamin Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend and buried him in the forest. Goddard investigates the matter and finds a buried scarecrow. Shortly after, Stanfield once again enters the confession booth, telling Goddard that what before was a practical joke, he has now made happen.
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    The Debt Collector
    Mean, gritty, dirty and low and that's just the Policeman Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the nineteen seventies, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden (Billy Connolly). This is as hard as they come; giants of their professions one with a trade that needs to be kept secret and the other holding a grudge. (imdb)
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    The Rutles 2: Can\
    After sitting on a shelf at Warner Brothers for over a year, the much anticipated sequel to Eric Idle and Gerard Corvin's 1978 mockumentary, is finally on release, revealing the final exploits of The Rutles as they do a reunion tour of America.
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    The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The MacManus brothers are living in Ireland with their father, but when they learn their priest has been killed by mob forces, they return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible.
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    The Big Man
    When a union strike leaves Scottish miner Danny Scoular jobless, he worries about being able to support his family. Desperate for a solution, Danny agrees to fight a bare-knuckle match for a cash prize, not realizing he'll be the sparring slave of gang boss Matt Mason, a ruthless businessman. While he's away training, his wife takes a lover, and it seems Danny will have to fight to keep her ... but first, he'll have to fight for his life.
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    Paws
    Alex knows the whereabouts of a stashed-away fortune of $1 million. The mysterious Anja kidnaps him, but he's transferred clues of location of the cash onto computer disk that he gives to his dog called PC, who has to find a friend of Alex, Susan. (imdb)
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    Gulliver\
    Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. (imdb)
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    Open Season 3
    Boog's friends rally to bring him home from a Russian traveling circus. (imdb)
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    Bullshot
    A true British know-it-all saves the universe and the planet by defeating the evils of the Nazis, getting the girl on the way.
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    The Ballad of Nessie
    A story set in the bonny blue highlands of Scotland, and centered on Nessie, the friendly Loch Ness monster, her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck, and how the duo came to live in the moor they call home. Problems arrive in the form of a land developer named MacFroogle, who wants to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie's home. (imdb)
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    Brave
    Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. (imdb)
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    Quartet
    Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with this tale of four aging opera singers (Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins). (tiff.net)
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    Blue Money
    Blue Money (1985) - TV Movie
    Larry dreams of becoming a star entertainer, but until then he drives a cab and works as chauffeur for the shady Ramirez. One day he has a look in the suitcase that Ramirez is carrying around: it's full with money! He can't resist and steals it. In front of his friends he claims he's finally got a contract with a famous director and invites them to celebrate, while the mob is after the money. (imdb)
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    What We Did On Our Holiday
    A family go on holiday to Scotland to visit their terminally ill grandfather.
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    Parkinson
    Parkinson (1971) - TV Series
    Journalist Michael Parkinson interviews a broad range of the most famous people in the world. (imdb)
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    Billy Connolly: Live in New York
    Billy Connolly stand-up
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    Head of the Class
    A laidback teacher provides needed guidance about life for a special class of exceptional students. (imdb)
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    Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
    Documentary following Billy Connolly on a tour of Ireland during the troubles.
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    Dying Laughing
    The craft, creative process and complicated lives of stand-up comedians. (imdb)
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    Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
    The highlights from Billy Connolly's thirty years as a stand up comedian are collected together here, along with a previously unseen live performance in Glasgow by the Big Yin.
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    Billy Connolly (Was It Something I Said)
    Billy Connolly brings more of his brand of observational comedy to the stage in a blistering comic commentary on daily life.
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    Billy Connolly: Billy Bites Yer Bum Live
    From the days when he still had red hair and was rising to the peak of his career, this is one of Billy's legendary early performances. The culmination of a marathon British tour that started in 1980, Billy Bites Yer Bum Live was filmed at London's Apollo Victoria over two nights in February 1981.
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    Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly
    Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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    Billy Connolly: Two Night Stand
    The 'Big Yin' performs in front of a live audience for the first time in three years, and the result is captured on this video. The concert footage is taken from two gigs (one in London, the other in Glasgow) during his 1997 tour, and is expletive-littered, as usual, as he casts his eye over life, sex and dachshunds. (imdb)
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    Billy and Albert: Billy Connolly at the Royal Albert Hall
    Billy Connolly delivers his unique brand of humor in this Royal Albert Hall concert, filmed in July 1987.
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