Waking Ned Devine
1999
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Ian Edmund Bannen (29 June 1928 – 3 November 1999) was a Scottish actor with a long career in film, on stage, and on television. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), the first Scottish actor to receive the honour, as well as two BAFTA Film Awards for his performances in Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1973) and John Boorman's Hope and ...
Ian Bannen. Actor: Waking Ned Devine. Scottish character actor and occasional leading man who enlivened scores of fine films in Britain and America. His father was a lawyer in a small town in Lanarkshire. Bannen served in the army and attended Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire. His first acting role came in a 1947 Dublin production of "Armlet ...
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- Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
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- Knockies Straight, Loch Ness, Scotland, UK
Nov 4, 1999 · The Scottish actor, who starred in films such as "Waking Ned Devine" and "The Flight of the Phoenix" and received a best supporting actor Oscar nom for "The Flight of the Phoenix", died in an auto accident on the south side of Scotland's Loch Ness. He was 71. He was on break from filming a new indie film and had worked with some of film's most prominent directors.
Ian Bannen was a Scottish actor who starred in films such as The Flight of the Phoenix, Gandhi and Braveheart. He died in a car accident in 1999 with his wife, whom he met when she parked in his spot.
- June 29, 1928
- November 3, 1999
A tribute to the Scottish actor who starred in films, plays and TV shows, from A View From the Bridge to Waking Ned. Learn about his life, career, awards and personal relationships.
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Nov 4, 1999 · Ian Bannen, the venerable British actor who capped his long and productive career as an elderly Irish con artist in the sleeper hit film "Waking Ned Devine," died Wednesday in a car accident.
Nov 5, 1999 · Ian Bannen was born in Airdrie, the son of a lawyer, and educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire. After military service in Egypt, he contemplated becoming a journalist but, during a chance ...
