Allister Bain

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1Waking the Dead

Drama Series - 2001, 16 episodes as Lawrence

7.2 / 10
CrimeMysteryDrama

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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#2The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Mr. Culver

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#3The Bill

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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#4The Fosters

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Lawrence

5.8 / 10
Comedy

The Fosters is a British sitcom created and written by Jon Watkins and Eric Monte. It showcases the early work of Lenny Henry as the budding artist son of easygoing family man Samuel Foster (Norman Beaton). The series follows the day-to-day trials of Samuel, his lively wife Pearl (both immigrants from Guyana) and their three children on a South London housing estate.

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#5Empire Road

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Drama

Empire Road was a British television series, made by the BBC in 1978 and 1979. Written by Michael Abbensetts, the show ran for two seasons of eight episodes each. The series was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by black artists. A soap opera, similar in format to Coronation Street, Empire Road depicted life for the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham. Prominent cast members included Norman Beaton, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Wayne Laryea, Joseph Marcell and Rudolph Walker. The programme also provided early TV exposure for Julie Walters who appeared in a few episodes. The series was made at BBC Pebble Mill with location work in the Handsworth area of Birmingham. The eponymously named theme song was recorded by Matumbi and also released as a single in 1978.

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#6South of the Border

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Pastor George

10.0 / 10
DramaCrime

Female private detectives Pearl Parker and Finn Gallagher operate within the bustling multicultural communities of South London.

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#7Quiller

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Charlie

10.0 / 10
Drama

Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".

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#8Tales Out of School

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Hopkins

10.0 / 10
Drama

Tales Out of School is a British anthology of television plays by David Leland: Birth of a Nation, Flying Into the Wind, R.H.I.N.O.: Really Here in Name Only, and Made in Britain.

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#9Made in Britain

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Hopkins

7.0 / 10
TV MovieCrimeDrama

16-year-old skinhead Trevor has no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. Social worker Harry Parker tries his best, but Trevor is only interested when there's something in it for him. The centre authorities try to conform Trevor to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse.

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#10Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Father

5.7 / 10
DramaComedy

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.

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#11Fords on Water

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Winston's Father

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.

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