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
Ray Winstone that geezer'." Other major influences included John Wayne, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. After borrowing extra tuition money from a friend's mother, a drama teacher, Winstone took to the stage, appearing as a Cockney newspaper seller in a production of "Emil and the Detectives". Winstone was also a fan of boxing. Known to his friends as Winnie, he was called Little Sugs at home (his father already being known as Sugar, after Sugar Ray Robinson). At the age of 12, Winstone joined the Repton Amateur Boxing Club. Over the next 10 years, he won 80 out of 88 bouts.