Known for Acting
Shaun Lawton was born in 1941. He is an actor, known for Cloud Atlas (2012), Æon Flux (2005) and Anonymous (2011).
Born
January 1, 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
New Marske, North Riding of Yorkshire
Filmography
22 films, 1 show


Flesh City
2019 · 1h 24m
country: Germany
A young couple stumbles into a dark, incomprehensible world in the basement of a nihilistic night club, opening a portal to mutation and mayhem.


The Keeper
2018 · 1h 54m
country: Belgium
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.


Fuse
2018 · 8m
country: Germany
A mousetrap snaps shut. A dusty town square awakens. A group of men debate how to kill the animal in the little box – each trying to outdo the others’ increasingly sadistic fantasies. Until a stranger suggests letting the creature loose. A voice of reason? Or the sickest manipulator of them all?


Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
2013 · 2h 23m
country: Germany
Scientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several people trying to survive is told.


Odyssey of Heroes
2013 · 2h 24m
country: Germany
When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.


Cloud Atlas
2012 · 2h 52m
country: Germany
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.


Anonymous
2011 · 2h 10m
country: Germany
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.


John Rabe
2009 · 2h 14m
country: Austria
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.


Fire!
2008 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
When a young musician and his wife become witness of a bank robbery they get in the midst of a political conspiracy with the risk of losing their lives.


I'd Like to Die a Thousand Times
2007 · 1h 15m
country: Germany
Follows two couples through the heat of summer for 24 hours. What began as a peaceful summer afternoon ends with violent excesses in one hell of a night.


Final Contract: Death on Delivery
2006 · 1h 37m
country: Germany
David Glover is a young, American man who is working as a courier at his uncle's company, "Berling Express". David is attracted to a female co-worker by the name of Jenny, who also happens to have feelings for him. During one of his courier jobs, the attractive Lara, who claims to be a policewoman, jumps into his car and David finds himself in an exchange of fire. David is willing to help Lara, but soon finds himself framed as the professional assassin LORCA. Now David must run from the police and catch the real LORCA, who is hell-bent on murdering the last surviving witness to a brutal murder.


Æon Flux
2005 · 1h 33m
country: United States
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.


Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987 · 1h 45m
country: Finland
A Finnish taxi driver in Berlin gets in over his head when he accepts a fare from two men with briefcases full of money stolen from ruthless gangsters.


Wild Geese II
1985 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.


White Star
1983 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.


Blood Link
1982 · 1h 38m
country: Germany
Haunted by psychic visions of murder, an American man travels to Europe where he learns that a rash of murders are being committed by someone who looks exactly like him.
The Hostage
The Hostage
1982 · 22m
country: Germany
A video that deals with perspectives; that of a hostage, and that of the hostage takers. The video ends with a philosophical analogy of the capabilities of seeing through video through 2 or more sources.


After Midnight
1981 · 1h 50m
country: Germany
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.


Nightshift
1981 · 1h 8m
country: United Kingdom
As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.


Possession
1981 · 2h 4m
country: France
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.


Charlotte
1981 · 1h 36m
country: Germany
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.


The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
1980 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.