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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-01-27 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Alex Norton

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.

Known For

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

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Acting

2025

Daredevil: Born Again as Male Dancer

2024		Rikki as Self
2024		Shoshana as Tennant (CID)

2023		Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Self
2023		Blackadder: The Lost Pilot as McAngus

2022

Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)

2020

Dragon Rider as Gravelbeard (voice)

2019		Good Omens as Tulloch
2019		Hatton Garden as Kenny Collins

2016

Two Doors Down as Eric

2015

Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self

2014

Still Game: The Story So Far as Self

2013		Two Doors Down as Eric
2013		Dream Me Up Scotty! as Presenter
2013		Shetland as Cameron Watt

2012

Sir Billi as Butler / Baron McToff (voice)

2011

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant

2006		Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Bellamy
2006		Waterloo Road as Gerard Findlay

2004

Unsolved

2002		The Count of Monte Cristo as Napoleon Bonaparte
2002		Billy Bongo

2000		Beautiful Creatures as Det Insp Hepburn
2000		Complicity as Kenny Garnet

1999

Extremely Dangerous as DCS Wallace

1998		Little Voice as Bunnie Morris
1998		Orphans as Hanson
1998		The Game as Tam
1998		Les Misérables as General

1997		Deacon Brodie as Alisdair Gilzean
1997		Renford Rejects

1996		The Crow Road as Lachlan Watt
1996		Bad Boys as Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
1996		When Saturday Comes as Factory Boss

1995		Backup
1995		Braveheart as Bride's Father
1995		Hamish Macbeth as Duncan Soutar

1994		Squanto: A Warrior's Tale as Harding
1994		White Goods as Paul Ryan

1993

Down Among the Big Boys as Dan Gibbons

1992		An Ungentlemanly Act as Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
1992		Patriot Games as Dennis Cooley
1992		Blame It on the Bellboy as Alfio

1991		Under Suspicion as Prosecuting Lawyer
1991		Robin Hood as Harry
1991		Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Andreyev

1990

White Hunter, Black Heart as Zibelinsky

1989		Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale as Harold
1989		Countdown to War as Stalin
1989		Scandal as Detective Inspector
1989		Leaving as Tommy

1988		The One Game as The Conjuror
1988		Lucky Sunil as Des Organ

1987		Comrades as Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer
1987		Hidden City as Hillcombe

1986

Lovejoy as Murray McNally

1985

A Sense of Freedom as Malkie

1984		Every Picture Tells a Story as William Scott
1984		The Bill
1984		Comfort and Joy as Trevor

1983		Taggart as DCI Matt Burke
1983		Blackadder as McAngus, Duke of Argyll
1983		Local Hero as Watt
1983		Dead on Time as Foreigner

1981		Bergerac as Acupuncturist
1981		Gregory's Girl as Alec

1979

Shakespeare's Mounted Foot

1977

The Thin End of the Wedge as John

1975		Just Another Saturday
1975		The Sweeney as Gibson

1974

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil as Various

1973

Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket

1971

Michael Regan as Jerry's Mate

1967

The Hunch

Sound

2022

The Sea Beast as ADR & Dubbing