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Ray Lonnen (born 18 May 1940) is a British actor, perhaps best known for his role as Willie Caine in the British cold-war spy drama The Sandbaggers. Another notable role was as Harry Brown, an agent sent to Northern Ireland to smoke out an IRA assassin who had slain a cabinet minister, in the tv mini-series Harry's Game, based on a Gerald Seymour novel. Later edited into a film, this work had a curious history, in that while Clannad's theme tune for it became their breakthrough hit, the film itself was not widely seen in the US or widely availabe on video, though a Canadian release called Belfast Assassin did come out. Curiously, despite not being widely available on American vhs, the film was given entries in reference works and video catalogs. The film was released to British dvd in 2005.

Brown is recalled from infiltration work, having operated in Oman, to accept the politically motivated but operationally dangerous mission to find the murderer of a British cabinet minister in Northern Ireland. Claiming to have been at sea as a sailor, Brown assumes the identity of Harry McEvoy. Already a weary person (having suffered a nervous breakdown), Brown must survive an isolated, paranoid daily grind as he attempts to mingle with the local community in an attempt to ferret out the slip of the tongue, the boast or bragging that could lead him to the murderer of the cabinet minister.

The murderer of the cabinet minister is in fact a mousy, inconspicous man whom Brown brushes shoulders with as he navigates the community. However, the fragile cover that Brown has gets chipped away due to selfish, careerist moves on the part of his superiors, just as the assassin's superiors in the IRA get so caught up in the struggle and their own political goals that they use their men as just another resource. In the end, neither Harry or his quarry win. A tv movie based on another book by Seymour features many of the same characters called The Informer would be released in 1997 with Timothy Dalton and Carly Elwes, but no actors from Harry's Game returned.

Lonnen has also appeared in Z Cars and Doctor Who.

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