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 At welterweight, he was London schoolboy champion on three occasions, fighting twice for England. The experience gave him a perspective on his later career: "If you can get in a ring with 2,000 people watching and be smacked around by another guy, then walking onstage isn't hard." Deciding to pursue drama, Winstone enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in Hammersmith. At £900 a term, it was expensive, considering the average wage was then about £36 a week. He landed his first major role in "What a Crazy World" at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London, but he danced and sang badly,