Rankin, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen School in the Bush

  1986, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Feeding and Clothing China's Millions

  1986, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen In Bed with an Elephant

  1986, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame

  1986, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Discussions in Bioethics: The Courage of One's Convictions

  1985, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen For Future Generations

  1985, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen For Future Generations

  1985, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Almost Giants

  1984, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen So You're Going to Buy a Boat

  1983, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen What Do We Do Now?

  1982, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe

  1979, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Laugh Lines: A Profile of Kaj Pindal

  1979, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe

  1979, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Who Will I Sentence Now?

  1978, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Our Health Is Not for Sale

  1978, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Seaweed Walk

  1978, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen The Forests and Vladimir Krajina

  1978, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen River: Planet Earth

  1977, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Journey to the Edge

  1977, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen The 1 CAG Story

  1977, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Coaches

  1976, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen The Boat That Ian Built

  1974, role: editor

Rankin, Ian Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Doors Open

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Doors Open

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Just Dandy

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Reichenbach Falls

  2007, role: actor , character name: Man at book-signing.
• Play in Full Screen Reichenbach Falls

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Autograph Hunters

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rankin on the Staircase

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Jackie Leven Live: the Meeting of Remarkable Men

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself

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."

Ian Rankin