Bill McCabe

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles

#1Reilly: Ace of Spies

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Chairman

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

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#2The Play on One

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Barman

6.0 / 10
Drama

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

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#3Rockliffe's Babies

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Sgt Benyon

5.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.

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#4A Time to Dance

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Lodger

3.8 / 10
Drama

A fiftysomething English banker falls for and has an affair with an Irish waif from the wrong side of the tracks, causing him grief both professionally and personally.

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#5Squaring the Circle

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Finanski

5.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

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#6The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Watch Controller Ford

7.0 / 10
DramaThrillerTV Movie

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

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#7Willie Rough

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Sanny

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.

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#8Killing Time

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Barman

8.8 / 10
ThrillerTV Movie

When Martin meets Harry he doesn't know what to expect. Is it love the boy is offering or a one-way ticket to heartbreak?

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