Finlay Welsh
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as George
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Sheriff
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Herbert Tesla
A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.
Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes • as Alec
A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Ferry Porter
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Coroner
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Scottish Policeman
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Pedlar
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Jenkins
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 five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Landlord
A seven-part miniseries following Sophia Jex-Blake's experiences in Edinburgh's medical establishment.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Paul Wainwright
Drama inspired by real events that tells the story of a fatal car crash involving a group of young friends and the devastating impact it has on the survivors and their families.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Rev. Murdo
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Arthur Newsholme
It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, the film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Braun
In June 1940 Italy entered the war alongside Germany. With Britain threatened by a German invasion, thousands of ordinary Italians living in the UK were arrested and thrown into internment camps.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Alan
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Crighton Doctor
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Various
Rikki Fulton and friends return with another selection of sketches and comedy characters, including the Reverend I.M. Jolly, Supercop, dirty barber Alky Broon and Big Chief Swift Half.
Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Alec
Old memories are awakened in a terrifying and dangerous way when Jock McGinn counters a strange little girl in the flats where he lives. A crucial stepping-stone in the career of distinguished actor and director David Hayman. It was also a seminal work of writer Bryan Elsley who would go on to create the award-winning Skins series.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as McKay
Life in a Scottish New Town
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Passenger
A shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.