Angus MacInnes (born 27 October 1947) is a Canadian actor. He is most famous for his role as Gold Leader in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and as former hockey great Jean "Rosey" LaRose in the comedy Strange Brew. He also appeared in Witness, as a corrupt policeman pursuing Harrison Ford, and he is currently starring in BBC Scotland soap River City as Sonny.
[on filming his Gold Leader parts on Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)]I got into the cockpit to do this scene and George said 'Have you learnt your lines out of sequence?' and I said 'What are you talking about?' and he said 'Just your lines,' and I said, 'No...I've learnt my lines with the cues,' you know, somebody cues me and I talk... He said 'No, just do your lines.' And so we started shooting and it was just a nightmare. I mean, it turned into a s---storm because I couldn't remember anything without the cues. I needed that other voice to respond to, so I kept drying. I knew the lines perfectly well, I just couldn't remember them. I thought, 'What am I going to do here?' and I started sweating, so I needed a make-up artist there with a mop. I mean, I was sweating; buckets. I was in a flat panic and George came and said 'Well, can you read them?' and I said 'Yeah, let's do that.' I was so panicked at that point that I would have done anything. If he'd said, 'You need some heroin,' I would have rolled my sleeve up. So, I had a piece of script on this leg, a piece of script on this leg and I had a chunk of script above me and a chunk of script over here. So, we shot the whole thing and I read the stuff off. There's no performance - in that sense - at all. It's just reading lines and I thought, 'I don't care. I've just got to get out of here.'
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(1995-) Works on Isle Of Man where he is filming a TV series for Sky called "Space Island One"
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Owned and ran "Mamma's", a pizza restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Half Moon Street
1986
Bill Rafferty
Loose Ends
1986
TV Movie
Urjak Kukoff
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985
TV Movie
New York Doctor
Witness
1985
Fergie
Evergreen
1985
TV Mini-Series
Trooper #1
Bedroom Eyes
1984
Lathan
Best Revenge
1984
Wayne
The Edison Twins
1984
TV Series
Uncle Ted
Louisiana
1984
TV Movie
Albert
ABC Weekend Specials
1984
TV Series
Rafe
Spasms
1983
Duncan Tyrone
Strange Brew
1983
Jean LaRose
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
TV Movie
Policeman #1 (as Angus McInnes)
The Sender
1982
Sheriff Prouty
Murder by Phone
1982
Laboratory Guard (as Angus McInnis)
If You Could See What I Hear
1982
Policeman
The Littlest Hobo
1980-1981
TV Series
Tigh Ridley / Henchman
Outland
1981
Hughes
Dirty Tricks
1981
FBI Agent Jones (as Angus McInnes)
The Great Detective
1981
TV Series
Superman II
1980
Prison Warden (as Angus McInnes)
Atlantic City
1980
Vinnie
Nothing Personal
1980
Military Policeman #2
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
Reynolds
Space: 1999
1977
TV Series
Jelto
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977
Gold Leader (as Angus Mcinnis)
BBC Play of the Month
1977
TV Series
Williams
Wodehouse Playhouse
1976
TV Series
Yes Man
Play for Today
1975
TV Series
Ed
Rollerball
1975
Jonathan's Guard (uncredited)
Captain Phillips
2013
Maersk Alabama Crew
Vikings
2013
TV Series
Tostig
I Am the Architect
2012
Short
Architect
Talking Piranhas
2010
Short
Willie
I'll Be Right Here
2010
Short
Michael
High Plains Invaders
2009
TV Movie
Silich Cure
Dach
2007
Short
Security Guard
Flight of Fury
2007
Video
Gen. Tom Barnes
The Big Forever
2006
Short
Mallory
The Black Dahlia
2006
Capt. John Tierney (as Angus MacInnis)
Living the Quake
2006
TV Movie
Colonel Morris
The Jacket
2005
Judge
Fooling Hitler
2004
TV Movie
General Parker
Hellboy
2004
Sgt. Whitman
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
2003
TV Series
Colonel George Goethals
Soraya
2003
TV Movie
Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf
Amen.
2002
Tittman
Formula 51
2001
Pudsey Smith
Enigma
2001
Commander Hammerbeck
Rhythm & Blues
2000
Bad Daddy
Too Much Sun
2000
TV Series
Dr. Luke
Yesterday's Children
2000
TV Movie
Sam Casey (as Angus Mac Innes)
Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
1999
Professor Hill
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Gateman #1
Space Island One
1998
TV Series
Lt. Cmdr. Walter B. Shannon
McLibel!
1997
TV Mini-Series
Paul Preston
Over Here
1996
TV Movie
Collis
Emmerdale
1996
TV Series
Regan Dexter
Judge Dredd
1995
Judge Silver
Paris
1994
TV Series
Hemingbeck
Roughnecks
1994
TV Series
Jake
Clue
1994
Video Game
Mr. Victor Sebastian Boddy
Between the Lines
1993
TV Series
Patrick Ingram
Lovejoy
1993
TV Series
Chuck Fellowes
Spies Inc.
1992
Vic
Sleepers
1991
TV Series
Bill Sullivan
Screen Two
1991
TV Series
Lawyer
Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1990
TV Series
Dobrowski
The Play on One
1990
TV Series
Barney Bascoe
The Krays
1990
Palendri
Howards' Way
1989
TV Series
Robert Lazell
Gross Anatomy
1989
Dean Torrence
Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
1989
TV Movie
Marilees
Honor Bound
1988
Jessup
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988
Homicide Detective Ronson (as Angus McInnes)
A Father's Revenge
1988
TV Movie
Patterson
The New Statesman
1987
TV Series
Captain Hirsch
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Elstree 1976
2015
Documentary
Himself
USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom
2007
TV Special
Inman
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rogue One
2016
Gold Leader (as Angus Macinnes)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
Video
Prison Warder (as Angus McInnes)
Known for movies
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) as Gold Leader
$800,000
