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Alex Norton

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: Acting

Born: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1950-01-27

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	The Hunch		0
2	1971	Michael Regan	Jerry's Mate	0
3	1973	Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket		0
4	1974	The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil	Various	0
5	1975	Just Another Saturday		80
6	1977	The Thin End of the Wedge	John	0
7	1979	Shakespeare's Mounted Foot		0
8	1981	Gregory's Girl	Alec	68
9	1983	Dead on Time	Foreigner	65
10	1983	Local Hero	Watt	67
11	1984	Comfort and Joy	Trevor	65
12	1984	Every Picture Tells a Story	William Scott	0
13	1985	A Sense of Freedom	Malkie	64
14	1987	Hidden City	Hillcombe	51
15	1987	Comrades	Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer	68
16	1988	Lucky Sunil	Des Organ	0
17	1989	Leaving	Tommy	0
18	1989	Scandal	Detective Inspector	59
19	1989	Countdown to War	Stalin	50
20	1989	Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale	Harold	75
21	1990	White Hunter, Black Heart	Zibelinsky	64
22	1991	Chernobyl: The Final Warning	Dr. Andreyev	55
23	1991	Robin Hood	Harry	57
24	1991	Under Suspicion	Prosecuting Lawyer	59
25	1992	Blame It on the Bellboy	Alfio	54
26	1992	Patriot Games	Dennis Cooley	67
27	1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb	55
28	1993	Down Among the Big Boys	Dan Gibbons	70
29	1994	White Goods	Paul Ryan	55
30	1994	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	Harding	67
31	1995	Braveheart	Bride's Father	79
32	1996	When Saturday Comes	Factory Boss	57
33	1997	Deacon Brodie	Alisdair Gilzean	0
34	1998	Les Misérables	General	72
35	1998	The Game	Tam	0
36	1998	Orphans	Hanson	66
37	1998	Little Voice	Bunnie Morris	65
38	2000	Complicity	Kenny Garnet	59
39	2000	Beautiful Creatures	Det Insp Hepburn	56
40	2002	Billy Bongo		0
41	2002	The Count of Monte Cristo	Napoleon Bonaparte	77
42	2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Bellamy	74
43	2012	Sir Billi	Butler / Baron McToff (voice)	32
44	2013	Dream Me Up Scotty!	Presenter	0
45	2013	Two Doors Down	Eric	65
46	2014	Still Game: The Story So Far	Self	100
47	2015	Sean Connery: In His Own Words	Self	60
48	2020	Dragon Rider	Gravelbeard (voice)	71
49	2022	Ooh the Banter!	Self (archive footage)	0
50	2023	Blackadder: The Lost Pilot	McAngus	70
51	2023	Bill Douglas: My Best Friend	Self	0
52	2024	Shoshana	Tennant (CID)	66
53	2024	Rikki	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Playhouse	Max Beerbohm	70
2	1975	The Sweeney	Gibson	77
3	1981	Bergerac	Acupuncturist	67
4	1983	Blackadder	McAngus, Duke of Argyll	80
5	1983	Taggart	DCI Matt Burke	63
6	1984	The Bill		67
7	1986	Lovejoy	Murray McNally	73
8	1988	The One Game	The Conjuror	50
9	1995	Hamish Macbeth	Duncan Soutar	76
10	1995	Backup		45
11	1996	Bad Boys	Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen	0
12	1996	The Crow Road	Lachlan Watt	70
13	1997	Renford Rejects		70
14	1999	Extremely Dangerous	DCS Wallace	0
15	2004	Unsolved		0
16	2006	Waterloo Road	Gerard Findlay	72
17	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
18	2013	Shetland	Cameron Watt	75
19	2016	Two Doors Down	Eric	72
20	2019	Hatton Garden	Kenny Collins	58
21	2019	Good Omens	Tulloch	80
22	2025	Daredevil: Born Again	Male Dancer	80