Ian Bannen Overview:

Character actor, Ian Bannen, was born on Jun 29, 1928 in Airdrie, Scotland. Bannen died at the age of 71 on Nov 3, 1999 in Knockies Straight, Scotland .

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Black-haired Scottish actor who began his career in gentle roles, largely in comedy, but developed in the mid-1960s into an abrasive character star, fiercely portraying a series of single-minded and even psychotic men. He continued to impress when asked to express sourness and criticism. An Oscar nominee for The Flight of the Phoenix, he was killed in a car crash.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Although Bannen was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1965Best Supporting ActorThe Flight of the Phoenix (1965)CrowNominated
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Director John Schlesinger cast him as a replacement for Alan Bates in the part of well-off homosexual doctor Daniel Hirsh in his controversial film Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), after Bates was deemed unavailable to shoot. According to screenwriter Penelope Gilliatt, Bannen never felt comfortable with the part; she speculated that he was flustered by the fact that he would have to kiss male actor Murray Head, who played his lover whom also carried on an affair with Glenda Jackson. The anxiety adversely affected his performance during the early filming. Schlesinger had to fire him and replace him with Peter Finch, who won an Oscar nomination for the role. Many observers believe that Finch lost the Oscar to Gene Hackman because of the gay kiss. Bannen said near the end of his life, after being hailed for his comeback in Waking Ned Devine (1998), that this was his one big regret, for throwing away the plum role seriously set back his career and it never recovered.

Cast as Miller in Force 10 from Navarone (1978) but left the production because of a clash with the producer, and was replaced by Edward Fox.

Cast in in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) but was replaced by Nigel Davenport.

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