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.
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Acting History
2025
Daredevil: Born Again as Male Dancer
2024Rikki as Self
2024Shoshana as Tennant (CID)
2023Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Self
2023Blackadder: The Lost Pilot as McAngus
2022Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2020Dragon Rider as Gravelbeard (voice)
2019Good Omens as Tulloch
2019Hatton Garden as Kenny Collins
2016Two Doors Down as Eric
2015Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self
2014Still Game: The Story So Far as Self
2013Two Doors Down as Eric
2013Dream Me Up Scotty! as Presenter
2013Shetland as Cameron Watt
2012Brave as Additional Voices (voice)
2012Sir Billi as Butler / Baron McToff (voice)
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Bellamy
2006Waterloo Road as Gerard Findlay
2004Unsolved
2002The Count of Monte Cristo as Napoleon Bonaparte
2002Billy Bongo
2000Beautiful Creatures as Det Insp Hepburn
2000Complicity as Kenny Garnet
1999Extremely Dangerous as DCS Wallace
1998Little Voice as Bunnie Morris
1998Orphans as Hanson
1998The Game as Tam
1998Les Misérables as General
1997Deacon Brodie as Alisdair Gilzean
1997Renford Rejects
1996The Crow Road as Lachlan Watt
1996Bad Boys as Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
1996When Saturday Comes as Factory Boss
1995Backup
1995Braveheart as Bride's Father
1995Hamish Macbeth as Duncan Soutar
1994Squanto: A Warrior's Tale as Harding
1994White Goods as Paul Ryan
1993Down Among the Big Boys as Dan Gibbons
1992An Ungentlemanly Act as Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
1992Patriot Games as Dennis Cooley
1992Blame It on the Bellboy as Alfio
1991Under Suspicion as Prosecuting Lawyer
1991Robin Hood as Harry
1991Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Andreyev
1990White Hunter, Black Heart as Zibelinsky
1990The Chief as Gordon Mackie
1989Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale as Harold
1989Countdown to War as Stalin
1989Scandal as Detective Inspector
1989Leaving as Tommy
1988The One Game as The Conjuror
1988Lucky Sunil as Des Organ
1987Comrades as Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer
1987Hidden City as Hillcombe
1986Lovejoy as Murray McNally
1985A Sense of Freedom as Malkie
1984Every Picture Tells a Story as William Scott
1984The Bill
1984Comfort and Joy as Trevor
1983Taggart as DCI Matt Burke
1983Blackadder as McAngus, Duke of Argyll
1983Local Hero as Watt
1983Dead on Time as Foreigner
1981Bergerac as Acupuncturist
1981Gregory's Girl as Alec
1979Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
1977The Thin End of the Wedge as John
1975Just Another Saturday
1975The Sweeney as Gibson
1974The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil as Various
1974Playhouse as Max Beerbohm
1973Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
1971Michael Regan as Jerry's Mate
1967The Hunch