Rankin, Ian Filmography

• Doors Open
  2012, role: producer
• Doors Open
  2012, role: writer
• Just Dandy
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Reichenbach Falls
  2007, role: actor , character name: Man at book-signing.
• Reichenbach Falls
  2007, role: writer
• The Autograph Hunters
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Rankin on the Staircase
  2005, role: actor
• Jackie Leven Live: the Meeting of Remarkable Men
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself

Rankin, Ian Filmography

• School in the Bush
  1986, role: editor
• Feeding and Clothing China's Millions
  1986, role: editor
• In Bed with an Elephant
  1986, role: editor
• Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame
  1986, role: editor
• Discussions in Bioethics: The Courage of One's Convictions
  1985, role: editor
• For Future Generations
  1985, role: editor
• For Future Generations
  1985, role: producer
• Almost Giants
  1984, role: editor
• So You're Going to Buy a Boat
  1983, role: editor
• What Do We Do Now?
  1982, role: editor
• My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
  1979, role: director
• Laugh Lines: A Profile of Kaj Pindal
  1979, role: editor
• My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe
  1979, role: editor
• Who Will I Sentence Now?
  1978, role: editor
• Our Health Is Not for Sale
  1978, role: editor
• Seaweed Walk
  1978, role: editor
• The Forests and Vladimir Krajina
  1978, role: editor
• River: Planet Earth
  1977, role: editor
• Journey to the Edge
  1977, role: editor
• The 1 CAG Story
  1977, role: editor
• Coaches
  1976, role: editor
• The Boat That Ian Built
  1974, role: editor

Famous quotes by Ian Rankin:

"It's a young man's book, all about the perils and pitfalls of growing up."

"Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character,"

"It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my miserable early failings as an author."

"As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him [John Rebus]: I drink at his bar and I like to be one on one with my music late at night."

"The match hinged on the first try after the break."

"By that time, Rebus will be 59 and, for a CID officer, he is getting fairly long in the tooth. They will have brought in the smoking ban by 2007, so he will definitely want to retire to somewhere in the sun for a drink and a smoke."

"Whether Rebus's 'skills' are ones his bosses would wish retained is a moot point, but it seems I have my 'get-in' clause should I need one."

"The match hinged on the first try after the break,"

"When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced."

"Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character. If you want to tell the reader a lot about a character in a small space, just tell them what their musical taste is. You'll get their age, their background, whether they're gregarious or a loner."