Malcolm Venville learn to star in the film. Venville's feature film debut was "44 Inch Chest" (2009), a gangster film starring Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Ian McShane. It reunited the writers and some of the cast of an earlier British gangster film, "Sexy Beast" (2000). He also directed "Henry's Crime" (2010), a romantic comedy starring Keanu Reeves, James Caan, and Vera Farmiga. Malcolm Venville Malcolm Frank Venville (born 1962) is a British photographer and film director. Born in Birmingham, Venville was the child of deaf parents. He was, in the words of his uncle, "caught in some no-man's land
Ian McShane McShane was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, to Irene ("née" Cowley; b. 1921) and Scottish footballer Harry McShane (1920–2012). His father was Scottish, and his mother, who was born in England, was of Irish and English descent. McShane grew up in Davyhulme, Manchester, and attended Stretford Grammar School. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was still a student there when he appeared in his first film, "The Wild and the Willing" (1962). McShane was a member of the National Youth Theatre. In the United Kingdom, McShane's best known role may be that of antiques dealer Lovejoy in