Alex Norton
Birthday: 1950-01-27
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography: Alex Norton is a Scottish television, film and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as DCI Matt Burke in the STV detective drama series Taggart, and Eric Baird in BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down. He played eleven roles in Bill Douglas' 1986 film Comrades and has starred in the key films of Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero and Comfort and Joy) as well as big Hollywood productions like Braveheart, White Hunter Black Heart and Patriot Games. He was one of the founder members of the 7:84 company, touring Scotland with The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil in the 1970s.
Movies
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' ...
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Comfort and Joy
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry compe...
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Local Hero
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build...
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Complicity
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the unde...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit...
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Patriot Games
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and...
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A Sense of Freedom
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man....
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Beautiful Creatures
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious...
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
It's the 17th century, and Native American Squanto roams free in the New World until he's captured b...
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Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to unc...
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The Game
A play about three Scottish football fans (and one of their long suffering football widow wives!) en...
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Lucky Sunil
Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out a...
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Sir Billi
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villa...
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Dead on Time
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumb...
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic acc...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...
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Leaving
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who ...
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When Saturday Comes
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...
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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
The story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong ...
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Braveheart
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...
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Still Game: The Story So Far
A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have app...
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors a...
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Ooh the Banter!
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous ...
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Two Doors Down
Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family...
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The Hunch
A pleasure cruiser is abandoned by all aboard and Ian, Janet and Harry, children of a trawler skippe...
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Gregory's Girl
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to ...
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Little Voice
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and har...
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Comrades
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one ...
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Scandal
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with...
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of th...
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Deacon Brodie
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 D...
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Hidden City
Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, c...
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Orphans
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children m...
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violenc...
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Every Picture Tells a Story
James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter....
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl....
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Under Suspicion
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Haze...
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White Hunter, Black Heart
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Robin Hood
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled Eng...
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White Goods
Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker bas...
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Just Another Saturday
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swin...
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Down Among the Big Boys
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His inten...
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The Thin End of the Wedge
A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for frie...
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Countdown to War
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-German...
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Dragon Rider
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to f...
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Dream Me Up Scotty!
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 10...
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Michael Regan
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his hom...
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Rikki
A centenary celebration of the life and legacy of Rikki Fulton, one of Scotland’s most beloved comic...
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Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a ...
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Shoshana
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish wo...
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Brave
In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Que...
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