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James Cosmos is known for his film roles as Angus MacLeod in Highlander, Campbell in Braveheart and as Father Christmas in the adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Over the years he has also had roles in films such as Trainspotting, The Last Legion, Troy, and 2081 . He also appeared in Take the High Road as Alex Geddes from 1982-83.
He is also a staple of British television, with credits in hundreds of television shows, Cosmo made a name for himself playing Scottish “tough guy” characters.
James Cosmo Biography / Wiki
Name | James Cosmo |
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Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Clydebank – West Dunbartonshire – Scotland – UK |
Date of Birth | 1948-05-24 |
Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
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James Cosmo Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Futureshock: Comet | Brenden | 2008-01-02 | A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated…. |
2081 | George Bergeron | 2009-05-29 | 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapp… |
Citadel | Priest | 2012-03-11 | Citadel tells the story of widower and single father Tommy Cowley, a man inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since the day his wife was attacked. He wa… |
Lives of the Saints | Mr. Karva | 2007-01-26 | Mr Karva runs a shady little empire in North London. We don’t know exactly how he makes his money but we know it’s probably not very nice. Mr Karva’s … |
Donkeys | Alfred | 2010-10-08 | Alfred is 64. He’s lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the… |
The Narnia Code | Narrator | 2009-04-09 | Millions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so… |
Estranged | Albert | 2015-08-28 | Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home a… |
The Pyramid Texts | Ray | 2015-06-19 | If we have been remiss in our life, and hurt the people we most love, is it ever too late to redress the balance? Ray, a lonely old boxer, desperately… |
Bunker: Project 12 | Brian Balanowsky | 2016-01-08 | At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful, would have changed the course of history. The … |
The Nightwatch | James Smithson | 1989-11-19 | Dark and Brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the detai… |
Billy and Zorba | Zorba | 1999-08-22 | In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mom named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the… |
My Sailor, My Love | Howard | 2022-09-30 | Howard, a retired sailor and widow, lives in a house by the sea. His adult daughter Grace hires a carer for her father, a lady in her mature years, An… |
Off Grid | John Tanner | 2019-12-13 | A man takes to a remote hideout with his sick wife, where they live in isolation as he battles to protect her life, and his own sanity, from a superna… |
The Glass Man | Pecco | 2011-08-26 | The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the current economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector… |
London Heist | Ray | 2017-06-17 | Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father’s murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts hi… |
Man Dancin’ | Donnie McGlone | 2004-02-20 | Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he’s bluffing… |
Jagame Thandhiram | Peter Sprott | 2021-06-18 | When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that foll… |
Forget Me Not | Benedict | 2019-11-16 | Lost and alone, a young girl forms an unlikely alliance with a lonely homeless man as she struggles to get a message to her family in time for Christm… |
The Islander | Dida | 2022-01-01 | A young man is haunted by visions of the future ever since he got struck by the lightning…. |
Breath | Nick | 2022-01-10 | Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to sta… |
The Golden Scallop | Judge Wellington | 2013-01-01 | A comedy about a fried seafood cooking competition. The 43rd Golden Scallop pits a food truck seeking redemption, an aging former champion and a well … |
All the Queen’s Men | Archie | 2001-10-14 | A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring … |
The Match | Billy Bailey | 1999-08-13 | The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is t… |
The Runway | Shutherland | 2010-07-10 | The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town… |
Hotel Caledonia | William Pertwee | Follows the journey of inconsequential loser, Norman Tickle, his best friend, and a bunch of backpackers to work the summer season at an isolated Scot… | |
Hammer of the Gods | King Bagsecg | 2013-07-05 | Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hak… |
One Night in Emergency | 2010-01-04 | Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a ser… | |
Breakdown | Albert Chapman | 2016-01-15 | A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he … |
Dark Signal | Alan | 2016-05-30 | The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her … |
Sovereign’s Company | Senior Under Officer Patterson | 1970-04-21 | Sovereign’s Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an of… |
The Santa Incident | Nick | 2010-01-01 | During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must … |
Tales from the Madhouse | The Centurion | 2000-04-16 | Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. … |
Sunset Heights | MacDonald | 1999-06-04 | Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley… |
Darkness Comes | Policeman | 2018-05-15 | When Eddie Bowen hooks up with the sexually aggressive Suze Phillips he thinks it’s his lucky night. It’s not. He’s drugged and trapped within a speci… |
Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre | Narrator | 2018-05-01 | Souther and Nordland forces have been locked in war for decades on Nu-Earth. The war has turned the planet toxic. Genetic Infantrymen designed to surv… |
The Kindred | Frank Menzies | 2021-12-28 | After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery f… |
One More Kiss | Frank | 1999-09-18 | When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Sco… |
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby | James Brown | 2005-10-29 | This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master’s graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years…. |
Get Lucky | Mr. Zigic | 2013-08-08 | Lucky is a small time criminal and he’s happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of tro… |
Amélia & Duarte | Narrator (English) | 2015-05-21 | In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings t… |
Eliminators | Cooper | 2016-12-01 | A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong a… |
Sin Bin | Jerry | 1994-05-18 | A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward…. |
The Christmas Candle | Herbert Hopewell | 2013-11-22 | Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlem… |
The Legend of Barney Thomson | James Henderson | 2015-07-24 | Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in fiv… |
We Still Kill the Old Way | Arthur | 2014-12-12 | A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang…. |
Stormy Monday | Tony | 1988-05-01 | When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his wait… |
In Darkness | Niall | 2018-05-25 | A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld… |
One Last Chance | Big John | 2004-03-13 | A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands…. |
Skylines | Grant | 2020-10-25 | When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries… |
Solid Air | Finn | 2003-08-22 | Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior. Discovering a lapsed compensation claim fo… |
Half Light | Finlay Murray | 2006-01-17 | Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scener… |
Tomorrow | Mr. Charles | 2019-09-27 | A film about soldiers trying to reintegrate into society after tours of duty…. |
The Nightmare Man | Sergeant Carch | 1981-05-01 | A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on th… |
Malevolent | Grandpa | 2018-12-13 | A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real…. |
To End All Wars | Col. Stuart McLean | 2001-09-02 | Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon … |
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Dawson | 2007-10-05 | A boy’s life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the f… |
Whisky Galore | Macalister the Minister | 2016-06-26 | The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisk… |
Living Apart Together | Priest | 1982-11-29 | Starring musician B.A. Robertson as Ritchie Hannah a singer/songwriter returning to his mediocre life in Glasgow after the death of a friend Living Ap… |
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | Billy | 2002-09-06 | Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her d… |
The Hole in the Ground | Des Brady | 2019-03-01 | Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifyin… |
Braveheart | Campbell | 1995-03-14 | Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord’s sol… |
Trainspotting | Mr. Renton | 1996-02-23 | Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends — Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also ha… |
Outcast | Laird | 2010-12-10 | When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or so… |
Sweet Dreams | Robert | 2003-03-14 | Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da… |
Ivanhoe | Cedric | 1997-01-12 | This grand six-part adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s rousing adventure of the Middle Ages tells the epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe (… |
The Four Feathers | Col. Sutch | 2002-09-08 | The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment’s plan to ship out to the Sudan f… |
Treasure Island | Redruth | 1990-01-22 | Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led… |
Outlaw King | Robert Bruce Senior | 2018-09-06 | Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne…. |
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol | Mr. Fezziwig (voice) | 2022-11-18 | With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future…. |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Father Christmas | 2005-12-07 | Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kin… |
Babe: Pig in the City | Thelonius (voice) | 1998-11-25 | Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett’s farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Ba… |
The Stone Tape | Cliff Dow | 1972-01-31 | A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Gr… |
T2 Trainspotting | Mr. Renton | 2017-01-27 | After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie…. |
Assault | Det. Sgt. Beale | 1971-02-11 | After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local … |
Free Jimmy | HudMaSpecs (voice) | 2006-04-21 | Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant…. |
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | McNab | 2000-08-26 | After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an … |
Young Winston | Officer on Train | 1972-07-20 | This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres… |
Get Duked! | Farmer | 2019-03-08 | An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman…. |
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil | Loch | 1974-06-06 | The “ceilidh play”, as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC’s 1974 “Play for Today” production to a live audience intercut with film… |
Emma | Mr. Weston | 1996-08-02 | Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who ar… |
Justin and the Knights of Valour | Blucher (voice) | 2013-08-09 | A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight…. |
Ben-Hur | Quintus Arius | 2016-08-17 | A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him…. |
Moonwalkers | Dawson | 2015-03-14 | What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, workin… |
Highlander | Angus MacLeod | 1986-03-07 | He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is C… |
Biggles | German Soldier | 1986-05-30 | Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James “Biggles… |
The Fool | Mr. Bowring | 1990-12-07 | A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c… |
Ashes in the Snow | Mr. Stakas | 2018-10-12 | The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin’s reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiri… |
The Last Legion | Hrothgar | 2007-04-19 | As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters…. |
Monochrome | Roger Daniels | 2016-10-01 | A disillusioned young woman becomes a serial killer who targets wealthy land-owners, and a brilliant detective must use his unusual neurological condi… |
Honest | Tommy Chase | 2000-05-26 | The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head ‘up West’ to rob… |
Codename: Kyril | Bonham | 1988-03-29 | At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy (“Kyril”) is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark… |
Troy | Glaucus | 2004-05-03 | In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav… |
Wonder Woman | FIeld Marshall Haig | 2017-05-30 | An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict…. |
Battle of Britain | Jamie | 1969-09-15 | In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N… |
The Virgin Soldiers | Waller | 1969-10-14 | The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier nam… |
The Reckoning | Lambert | 2004-02-26 | In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small tow… |
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