The Sweeney (2012 film) based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The Sweeney (2012 film) The Sweeney is a 2012 British action drama film, inspired by the 1970s "The Sweeney", the British television police drama of the same name, but set in contemporary London. Directed and written by Nick Love, and co-written by John Hodge, it is based on the characters created by Ian Kennedy Martin. It stars Ray Winstone as Jack Regan, Plan B (credited as Ben Drew) as George Carter, and Damian Lewis as Frank Haskins, with Allen Leech and Hayley Atwell. The story focuses on two members of the
George Carter (bowls) George Carter (bowls) George Henry Carter (1883 – 1 May 1935) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games. Professionally, he was an accountant and a director of the McKenzies retail chain. Carter was born in Australia in about 1883. In 1906, he married Charlotte Ella McKenzie, who, with her brother John, had founded a fancy goods store in Melbourne the previous year. Carter was John McKenzie's accountant, and the store would eventually grow to become the J.R. McKenzie retail chain in New Zealand, with Carter as one of its