East Ender and ex-boxer Ray Winstone is known for playing hard men and bruisers, but actually he’s a devoted family man and quite a nice guy.

GALWAY’S five-star Glenlo Abbey hotel and golf course, on 140 acres at Bushy Park — complete with old Orient Express train carriages — is up for sale for joint receivers Aengus Burns and Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton, with offers sought close to €4m.

STEWART LEE doesn’t do “fast gags”.

Actor Peter O’Toole has ‘chucked in the sponge’ and retired from stage and screen. Danny White looks at his life

Daniel Craig wants to play James Bond for as long as he can.

James Bond director Sam Mendes has said Daniel Craig is a “real man” on screen, just like original 007 Sean Connery.

Albert Finney and Ralph Fiennes will be among the stars who will head the cast of the new James Bond film 'Skyfall', it was announced today.

Scott Glenn has signed on for 'The Bourne Legacy'.

Novelist Alan Sillitoe died today at the age of 82, his family said.

Dustin Hoffman is to direct a film.

THE remains of award-winning actress Anna Manahan were last night removed to the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford, prior to her burial today.

Tributes were today paid to veteran Irish actress Anna Manahan who died after a long illness, aged 84 years.

Director Sidney Lumet delivers a real cracker in ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ (EIV, €24.99).

Lumet brings us a complex but brilliantly constructed heist drama, told from several points of view after the robbery goes wrong.

Jim Carrey's fans are in for a festive treat - he is to star in a new animated adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'.

Jason is still out there seeking the Golden Fleece … who is he?

We are celebrating the life of anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce who fought gallantly in 18th century England to end the selling of humans.

Peter O’Toole nearly did not accept his honorary Oscar in 2003 on the grounds that he was “still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright”.

A film of which it can truly be said that you'll come out whistling the scenery.

Movie couple Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter posed together for the premiere of their new film Corpse Bride.

A MAGNIFICENT portrayal of Winston Churchill by Albert Finney showed the great man in his morning bath with his personal valet testing the temperature of the water.

Italian movie mogul Fernando Ghia has lost his battle with cancer and died in Rome, Italy. He was 69.

British stars Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee and Joanna Lumley have landed roles as the voices in Tim Burton’s animated movie.

Ricky Gervais will lead the British charge at tonight’s Golden Globe awards.

Nominations for this year's BAFTA film awards

Helena Bonham Carter is relishing her new role as a mother.

Hollywood’s annual award season started today as the Golden Globe nominations were announced.

Photographs in a magazine led producer Richard Zanuck to cast British actors Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor as the same character in his new film, the reality-fantasy fable Big Fish.

The success of the Veronica Guerin film has added to the fame of Northern Ireland dialect coach, Brendan Gunn.

Irish beauty Victoria Smurfit adores being a baddie in her new film, Bulletproof Monk; she plays Nina, the determined and dangerous granddaughter of the evil former Nazi, Struker.

Comic Paul Merton had the last laugh tonight as he beat his TV sparring partner Angus Deayton to a top TV prize – then mocked him.

Actor David Jason is to be honoured with a Bafta Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to television, it was announced today.

Channel 4’s controversial screening of a public autopsy has been nominated for a top TV award.

The legal team of Ed Masry and Erin Brockovich, whose investigations into corporate toxic pollution led to the hit film Erin Brockovich, are working on another case which has aroused Hollywood’s interest.

David Ginola is swapping football for film after enrolling at top drama school Rada in England.

Actor Albert Finney today beat off competition from two fellow Brits to scoop a top honour in the US Emmy awards.

Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney are to star in director Tim Burton's new film Big Fish.

Julia Roberts has won the Best Actress Oscar.

Jamie Bell capped an astonishing few months by dancing off with the Best Actor title at lastnight's Baftas.

Gladiator leads the list of nominations for this year's Oscars with 12, including the big three of Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director.