Iain Glen Filmography

Born:: Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A handsome supporting player whose occasional leap into the lead has resulted in some interestingly varied performances, actor Iain Glen has appeared in everything from low-budget indies to high-profile Hollywood blockbusters -- frequently holding his own opposite such screen heavies as Harvey Keitel...Read More

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Resident Evil: Extinction

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti

Synopsis: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout Read More

9/21/07
The Last Legion

Actors: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd

Synopsis: Co-adapted by Tom Butterworth and Jez Butterworth from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's bestselling historical adventure novel, Doug Lefler's period epic The Last Legion unfurls c. 470 A.D., just prior to the fall of the colossal Roman Empire. As the most recent in a long line of Caesars, a young Roman Read More

8/17/07
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

Actors: Catherine Tate, Iain Glen, Heike Makatsch, Katharina Thalbach

Synopsis: This is not a Love Song director Billie Eltringham returns the the helm to tell this comedic tale of a 1960's-era clan of British communists who choose to leave their beloved Britain to seek out Utopian bliss in East Germany. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Small Engine Repair

Actors: Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh, Stuart Graham, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Laurence Kinlan

Synopsis: An aspiring country singer and a weary mechanic living in a quiet Northern Ireland community receive an uneasy chill when an old friend is released from prison in director Niall Heery's affecting study of male vulnerability and human weakness. Doug (Iian Glen) is a wannabe country singer who Read More

2007
Kingdom of Heaven

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble French blacksmith who is searching for a reason to go on after the death of his wife and children. Balian is approached by Godfrey of Ibelin (Liam Neeson Read More

5/6/05
Tara Road

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale suddenly dies while celebrating his fifteenth Read More

2005
Kidnapped

Actors: Iain Glen, James Anthony Pearson, Paul McGann, Adrian Dunbar, Gregor Fisher, Kirstin Coulter Smith

Synopsis: Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's enduring 1886 adventure novel, receives its 11th film adaptation in this two-and-a-half-hour miniseries starring young British TV vet James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour, the naïve and hopeful 15-year-old, poised to receive a vast inheritance when he is lured Read More

2005
Darkness

Actors: Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini, Fele Martínez

Synopsis: Directed by Jaume Balagueró, Darkness follows father and husband Mark (Iain Glen), his wife (Lena Olin), and their two children (Anna Paquin and Stephan Enquist) on their move to an outwardly quaint country home. Though the initial housewarming party is widely celebrated by neighbors, their Read More

12/25/04
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur

Synopsis: One of the only survivors of a man-made plague joins forces with a team of private warriors in a bid to save what's left of the Earth in this sequel to Resident Evil, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game. Picking up where the first film left off, Resident Evil: Apocalypse finds Read More

9/10/04
Man to Man

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Iain Glen, Hugh Bonneville, Lomama Boseki

2004
Song for a Raggy Boy

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton, Alan Devlin

Synopsis: A teacher takes on the corrupt leadership of an Irish reform school in this drama based on a true story. William Franklin (Aidan Quinn) is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Read More

1/19/03
Prendimi L'Anima

Actors: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Caroline Ducey, Craig Ferguson, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Roberto Faenza's historical drama The Soul Keeper is a biopic of Sabina Spielrein. The family of depressed 19-year-old Sabina (Emilia Fox) takes her for treatment from Carl Jung (Iain Glen), whose radical approach to mental health was much derided in 1904. The treatment is successful, but the two Read More

2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: A popular video game comes to the screen with this big-budget adventure starring Angelina Jolie as a buxom heroine recalling equal parts Indiana Jones and James Bond. Jolie is Lara Croft, a proper British aristocrat groomed at schools for the children of the elite. Croft leads a double life Read More

6/15/01
Beautiful Creatures

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Alex Norton, Iain Glen, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: In this contemporary thriller set in Scotland, two women, Dorothy (Susan Lynch) and Petula (Rachel Weisz), bond over a dangerous encounter. Petula is being routinely beaten by her boyfriend Brian (Tom Mannion); Dorothy, after having left her unstable relationship with Tony (Iain Glen) Read More

4/6/01
Gabriel & Me

Actors: Iain Glen, David Bradley, Sean Landless, Rosie Rowell, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: While many people want to get into heaven, one young man looks to it as a good employment opportunity as well as a spiritual path in this offbeat comedy. Jimmy Spud (Sean Landless) is an 11-year-old boy growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Newcastle, England. Like many boys his age, Jimmy Read More

2001
The Wyvern Mystery

Actors: Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi, Iain Glen, Jack Davenport, Aisling O'Sullivan

Synopsis: This two-part British miniseries was based on a classic gothic novel by Sheridan J. LeFanu. Having inadvertently caused the death of one of his tenants, wicked Squire Fairfield (Derek Jacobi) adopted the dead man's daughter Alice (Naomi Watts). No sooner had Alice grown to womanhood that the Read More

2000
Glasgow Kiss [TV Series]

Actors: Iain Glen, Sharon Small

2000
Paranoid

Actors: Jessica Alba, James Bannon, Mischa Barton, Gina Bellman, Ewen Bremner, Iain Glen, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Synopsis: A woman looking for a relaxing weekend instead finds her safety at stake in this psychological thriller. Chloe (Jessica Alba) is a famous model who is feeling stressed after a working trip to the U.S. -- where she'd been dogged by a persistent telephone stalker. While Chloe has a beau, she decides Read More

2000
Mararia

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Iain Glen, Goya Toledo, Mirta Ibarra, Jose Manuel Cervino

Synopsis: Set amidst the austere volcanic splendor of Spain's island of Lanzarote, this period piece successfully vacillates between drama and high tragedy as it follows the romantic obsession felt by two very different men for an innocent but seductive local girl. The tale is set in a ramshackle island Read More

1998
Painted Lady

Actors: Helen Mirren, Franco Nero, Iain Glen, Michael Maloney, Lesley Manville

Synopsis: Helen Mirren played the title character in the two-part British miniseries Painted Lady. In the throes of poverty and drug abuse, Irish folk singer Maggie Sheridan (Mirren) pulled herself together when her wealthy and well-connected landlord was murdered and robbed of several valuable works of Read More

1998
The Young Americans

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Viggo Mortensen, Iain Glen, John Wood, Geoffrey McGivern, Dave Duffy, Keith Allen, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young Britons into hardened criminals. The gang has gunned down a well-known Read More

1993
Ferdydurke

Actors: Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, Judith Godrëche, Fabienne Babe

1992
Black and Blue

1992
Adam Bede

Actors: Patsy Kensit, James Wilby, Iain Glen, Susannah Harker

Synopsis: Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social prejudices. Played in this British TV adaptation by Iain Glen, the titular Adam Bede is a humble carpenter, enamored of the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorel (Patsy Read More

1992
Frankie's House

Synopsis: The two-part Australian miniseries Frankie's House was based on photojournalist Tim Page's autobiography Page After Page. Set during the Vietnam war, the story recounted the adventures of Page (Iain Glen) and his erstwhile photographer partner. After numerous scrapes with death, Page managed to Read More

1992
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

2/8/91
Fools of Fortune

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Iain Glen, Julie Christie, Michael Kitchen, Sean McClory

Synopsis: Set in post-WW I Ireland, Fools of Fortune takes place on the huge estate of the aristocratic Quinton family. Sheltered from the economic and political travails all around them, the Quintons are shocked into the Real World when one of their workers is ritualistically murdered. This is but one more Read More

9/14/90
Mountains of the Moon

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Synopsis: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort Read More

2/23/90
Silent Scream

Actors: Iain Glen, Harry Jones, Andrew Barr

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama follows the exploits (both real and imagined) of the murderer Larry Winters (Iain Glen), who achieved fame as a writer and poet while he was in prison for his crimes. He is best known for his elegaic stories about boyhood life in the Scottish Highlands. Flashback Read More

1990
Paris by Night

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Andrew Ray, Jane Asher

Synopsis: British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by Read More

1989
Gorillas in the Mist

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is Read More

9/23/88
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Synopsis: Made for British television, Will You Love Me Tomorrow? was inspired by a true story. The protagonist is a 10-year-old girl who is jailed for murder. After spending eleven years behind bars, the girl escapes, seeking answers to her plight. Joanne Whalley (before she began billing herself as Whalley-Kilmer Read More

1987
Blood Hunt

Synopsis: Blood Hunt, a well-below average made-for-TV action/ thriller, concerns a man (Andrew Keir) who sets out to avenge his brother's murder. The final face-to-face showdown, though violent, is tedious as is the entire film. Little time is spent on plot or characterization, and the action, when it Read More

1986