The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
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as Jamie
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Tommy
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as Grandmother
AliveBorn: February 8, 1901
Age: 125
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
as Helmuth
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as Tommy's father
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as Jamie's father
DeceasedBorn: March 3, 1932
Died: March 17, 1990
Age at death: 58
as Father's mother
DeceasedBorn: February 23, 1909
Died: June 15, 1973
Age at death: 64
as Jamie's mother
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as Nurse
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as Bus conductress
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as Man singing
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