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Sweeney 2 is a 1978 British action crime drama film directed by Tom Clegg and starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman. [2] It was a sequel to the 1977 film Sweeney!. Both films are an extension of the British ITV television series The Sweeney (1975–1978). Some of the action in the film is transferred from the usual London setting to Malta.
The Sweeney was developed from a one-off TV drama entitled Regan, which served as the pilot episode for the series.Regan is a 90-minute television film written by Ian Kennedy Martin for the Thames Television anthology series Armchair Cinema in 1974.
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) [1] is an American actress. She first gained attention in 2018 for appearing in the television series Everything Sucks! and The Handmaid's Tale , and in the limited series Sharp Objects .
Sweeney! is a 1977 British action crime drama film and extension of the ITV television series The Sweeney which aired on ITV from 1975 to 1978. The film performed well enough at the box office that a sequel, Sweeney 2, was released in cinemas in 1978.
Euston Films productions include Van der Valk (1977), The Sweeney (1975–1978), Minder (1979–1994), Quatermass (1979), Danger UXB (1979), and Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983). The Sweeney had two feature film spin-offs, Sweeney! and Sweeney 2, which were also produced by Euston.
Dennis Waterman (24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022) was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks, singing the theme tunes of the latter two.
Thomas Harrison Clegg (16 October 1934 – 24 July 2016) [1] was a British television and film director. He was known as an action director, [2] responsible for many episodes of The Sweeney, its cinema version Sweeney 2 (1978), and Sharpe.
Sweeney an Australian bush ballad (1893) by Henry Lawson; Sweeney Agonistes, an abandoned "Aristophanic Melodrama" by T. S. Eliot; also two poems, "Sweeney Erect" and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" from Eliot's Poems (1920) The Sweeney, a British television series; Sweeney!, a spin-off film of the TV show; Sweeney 2, the 1978 sequel; The ...