Ray Winstone - a video tribute

A short tribute to the acclaimed actor Ray Winstone.

Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone, Jr.[1] (born 19 February 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum, and is also known as a voice over actor. More recently he has branched out into film production. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Nil by Mouth, Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain, King Arthur, The Proposition, The Departed, Beowulf and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Winstone was born in Homerton, in the London Borough of Hackney.[2] His family was originally from Cirencester, Gloucestershire half of them moving to London, the other half to Wales. Moving via Plaistow to Enfield when Winstone was seven, his father, Raymond Andrew Winstone, Sr., ran a fruit and vegetable business (he is now a black cab driver) while his mother, Margaret, had a job emptying fruit machines. Winstone recalls playing with his friends on bomb sites until "Moors Murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested after preying on children. Winstone was educated at Edmonton County, which had changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive upon his arrival. He didn't take to school, eventually leaving with a single CSE (Grade 2) in Drama.
Winstone had an early affinity for acting; his father would take him to the cinema every Wednesday afternoon. Later, he would witness Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the bug would bite: "I thought 'I could be that geezer'" he said later. 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, he 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, at home he was called Little Sugs (his dad already being known as Sugar after Sugar Ray Robinson). At the age of 12, Winstone joined the famous Repton Amateur Boxing Club and, over the next 10 years, won 80 out of 88 bouts. 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 2000 people watching and be smacked around by another guy, then walking onstage isn't hard."

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[agonyuncle]

wheres yer fuckin tool!!

[ibilly99]

look after yur art !

[karenpurves]

diamond geeza....Nice one!

[1slackalice]

he is just pure and simple "a dude" i love him seen everything hes been in i think hes a great actor just a shame he supports west ham xx

[paperandtea]

good call,winstone is the best

[rasmusenchip]

Grrr...he´s really a man´s man. I´d pick him over Depp and Pitt any day of the week..

[MadJewelz]

Sexy Beast is one of my favourite movies of all time!

[paperandtea]

yea true mate brilliant actor...but sorry to tell you that ...you were only sposed to blow the bloodt doors off was///Michael caine...not ray winstone

[ibilly99]

great to see so mnay celebrating the great Ray init. Not diamond but platinum plated geeza squared me old chestnut and make no mistake - you were only meant to blow the bllody doors off was his finest line.mint

[paperandtea]

ello mate fukin hell yes you must be a dimond geeza urself................oh yes ray is a legend what an amazing actor one of the best in the world by far i mean his performance in nil by mouth was out of this world from an acting point of view....im gonna get a tattoo of him...he is a god danny dyer aint got nuffin on ray ray winstone is amazing i got loadsa pics dvds and i wanna see the new film 44 inch chest av u seen vincent get in contact mate nice one

[Onlyrealish]

dope actor foreal