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Actor Born: June 29, 1928 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland Death: November 3, 1999 in near Loch Ness, Scotland Biography:A respected character actor and occasional leading man of the stage, screen, and television, Scottish-born "Ian Bannen" acted in over 80 productions during his long career. Shortly after enrolling at Ratcliffe College, Bannen, who was born in Airdrie, Scotland, on June 29, 1918, made his first stage appearance at Dublin's Gate Theatre. A year after making his 1955 London theatrical debut, he entered films with "A Private's Progress" and "Battle Hell". A prolific stage actor (with a special fondness for the works of "Eugene O'Neill"), Bannen nonetheless found time for quite a few impressive film characterizations. One of these, the cynical Crow in "Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), earned him an Academy Award nomination. His later screen assignments ranged from a cameo as a policeman in "Richard Attenborough"'s "Gandhi" (1982) to the irascible Grandfather George in "John Boorman"'s "Hope and Glory" (1987)... Full Biography
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