PALM TREE STARS 1999-2002
LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH
CAST
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Appeared in ‘Obit’
with Charlie Sheen. From Lanarkshire, Hazel
as Gina is the archetypal Scottish girl – tough, outspoken, and equally
contemptuous of corruptness and fools.
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Hazel Ann Crawford
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The first of his three films with Palm
Tree (see Finding Fortune, Red Rose), Paul is also
a great Scottish theatre actor. A rough diamond hiding his past, Paul as
Charlie reveals the Scottish use and knack of dual personality.
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Paul Cunningham
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A veteran of London West End musicals, Adelle plays homeless girl Lucy in her first film
feature role. Originally from Paisley, she is a product of Scotland’s most famous
dance school.
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Adelle Brown
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London based actor from Dumfries, Niall is an all round film, tv, and theatre actor with twenty years
experience. From touring with John Mills to lead roles in BBC dramas, Niall
makes it look easy as bent cop Paterson
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Niall Sutherland
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From Inverness, a trained actor
once employed searching for missing people in France, Kevin has known the pain of alcohol addiction and the stigma
of homelessness and brings all of that to the screen as Willie-Boy
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Kevin Barclay
The Ensemble cast includes: Alex
Kinnear, Ian Stirling, Robert Jan Szemis,
John Gilmour, Karl Rexter, Derek Nicoll, Christopher
Phillips, Fish MacDonald,
John Nicoll, Alando,
Anne-Marie Gallagher, Rachael Sutherland.
LOST IN THE LANDSCAPE
CAST
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His first of five
appearances in Palm Tree films. Originally
from Glasgow, James studied acting in Dublin and was
cast in sci-fi series ‘Dune’. He spends lots of time in Ireland where he is active in film and theatre production.
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James Watson
Notably cast in the ‘The Pianist’, Ruth
brings her Cambridge degree intelligence to roles that have cast her opposite Aidan
Quinn and Dougray Scott. As Katrina, she gives
lost Jonnie some well needed advice.
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Ruth Platt
Edinburgh girl Joanna has starred in four Palm Tree films, most notably
The Hawk and The Dove. As Jonnie’s love interest,
she displays a passionate disinterest in him as his ways are too old and
boring to excite her.
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Joanna Kate Rodgers
THE HAWK AND THE DOVE
CAST
Incomparable as Harry Gillespie, Jon
origin-ally from Doncaster, gives his all as a bent accountant in his first of three films
with Palm Tree. (See Winter Warrior, Red Rose)
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Jon Paul Gates
Playing Edinburgh tart
Ebony in her second film for Palm Tree, Joanna bares all as a mixed-up
schemer whose innocence is undone by her ability to murder.
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Joanna Kate Rodgers
Half Dutch, half Indonesian, living in Amsterdam,
actor Joe is a familiar face to Dutch audiences. As Luc, his smile
beguiles, but his agenda is mercenary.
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Joe Hennes
First brought to prominence as Bingo
Brown in ‘Love the One You’re With’, hard-man acting Ian reprises the
character and convincingly behaves like a thug seeking revenge.
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Ian Stirling
A girl from Berlin, Lenora
plays Rieperbahn madame
Babette who is in love with Harry but cannot
forgive him for stealing all her money.
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Lenora Steller
Mad Michael, played by James, gives a
memorable performance as the gun-toting- limping gangster chasing Harry and
Ebony through the streets of a fishing village.
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James Watson
WINTER WARRIOR
Tough boy James
plaids-up in the first of the Fingal movies. An ex-Roman army mercenary, he pulls his weight as he chases
after his wife’s abductors. (Sequel - The Bone Hunter)
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CAST
James Watson
Victoria, British tv and commercial success, brings a toughness and
resilience to slave girl Jessica that is compelling. Her first feature
lead, she goes on to co-star with Ilaria D’Elia in ‘Finding Fortune’.
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Victoria Pritchard
Bad guy Ida the Angle leader is played
by brawny Yorkshire boy Jon who was the lead in Palm Tree’s ‘The Hawk and the
Dove’. Despite his likeable ineptitude, Fingal
gets him in the end.
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Jon Paul Gates
Italian star Ilaria
gives a fantastic performance as Fingal’s wife
who is captured by the Angles but remains untameable. (Ilaria
is the lead in Palm Tree’s ‘Finding Fortiune’)
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Ilaria D’Elia
In his third Palm Tree film, Ian plays
the mute Angle Hussa who is only survivor of
their ill-fated raiding party..(Also see him in
Love the One You’re With’, ‘The Hawk and the
Dove’)
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Ian Stirling
The cast includes: Robert Jan Szemis, Paul Saunders, Nick Bartlett, Tim Klotz, Tony
Gaffney, Rachael Sutherland, Alan Torrance, Mairi
Sutherland, Brian Allan, Ben Joseph
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Ensemble
FINDING FORTUNE
CAST
Tough as nails Helen is played by Venice-born
Ilaria, star of Italian series La Squadia, and sidekick of Jenny in Gangs of New York. Also appeared in Winter Warrior.
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Ilari D’Elia
Dingbat Cockney Sylvia, cleverly played
by Bristol born Victoria, is a women feeling her age and needing something new in her
life – a man who does what he’s told.
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Victoria Pritchard
Jason, from Cumbernauld, straight out
of drama school, is love interest Davie in
Finding Fortune and is fresh and breezy in the presence of two women who
eat him up.
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Jason Harvey
Star of Palm Tree’s ‘Love The One You’re With’, Paul is love cheat Frank who
doesn’t want to be found. A great Scottish talent, Paul is also in period
movie Red Rose.
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Paul Cunningham
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The cast includes: Robert Jan Szemis, Joanna Kate Rodgers, Ian Stirling, Frankie Martyn, Alan ap
Brindley, Rachael Sutherland, Alan Torrance, Mairi
Sutherland, Robert Howat,
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Ensemble
THE BONE HUNTER
CAST
James plaids up again as Fingal to search for the abducted bride
of a chief he despises. James’s other Palm Tree films include Winter
Warrior and Lost in The Landscape.
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James Watson
One of the princesses of British drama,
Lynsey brings her full feistiness to the part of Hennini, the heiress to a ruined castle abducted by
Angles.
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Lynsey Baxter
Lead Angle Aedgar
played by Michael, is an ambitious individual who seizes what he sees. A Hollywood face, Michael
brings a sensitivity to Aedgar
who is a lost soul.
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Michael Rodgers
Tannu, a runaway novice in love with the Angle leader, is played by
Joanna in her fourth Palm Tree feature. See also The Hawk and the Dove and
Finding Fortune.
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Joanna Kate Rodgers
A National Theatre actor, and one of
the finest in Britain, Oliver brings a charm and intelli-gence
to the part of Regulus. Oliver has appeared in
more than twenty films
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Oliver Cotton
The cast includes: Robert Jan Szemis, Julie Hale, Sam Ellis, Gary Taylor, Thomas Hartlley, Tony Streeter, Seth Hardwick, Rachael
Sutherland, Alan Torrance, Mairi Sutherland,
Robert Howat, Chick Allan
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Ensemble