Alex Norton
Born: 1950-01-27 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Daredevil: Born Again as Male Dancer
- Being Stanley Baxter as Self
2023
- Blackadder: The Lost Pilot as McAngus
- Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Self
2022
- The Sea Beast ... (ADR & Dubbing)
- Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Dragon Rider as Gravelbeard (voice)
2019
- Good Omens as Tulloch
- Hatton Garden as Kenny Collins
- Selling Scotland as Self
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
- Shetland as Cameron Watt
- Two Doors Down as Eric
- Dream Me Up Scotty! as Presenter
2011
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2006
- Waterloo Road as Gerard Findlay
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Captain Bellamy
2004
2002
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Napoleon Bonaparte
- Billy Bongo
2000
- Beautiful Creatures as Det Insp Hepburn
- Complicity as Kenny Garnet
1999
- Extremely Dangerous as DCS Wallace
1998
- Les Misérables as General
- Little Voice as Bunnie Morris
- Orphans as Hanson
- The Game as Tam
1997
- Renford Rejects
- Deacon Brodie as Alisdair Gilzean
1996
- Bad Boys as Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
- The Crow Road as Lachlan Watt
- When Saturday Comes as Factory Boss
1995
- Braveheart as Bride's Father
- Hamish Macbeth as Duncan Soutar
- Backup
- Signs and Wonders as William Gimble
1994
- Squanto: A Warrior's Tale as Harding
- White Goods as Paul Ryan
1993
- Comics as Haggis
- Down Among the Big Boys as Dan Gibbons
1992
- Patriot Games as Dennis Cooley
- An Ungentlemanly Act as Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
- Blame It on the Bellboy as Alfio
1991
- Under Suspicion as Prosecuting Lawyer
- Robin Hood as Harry
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Dr. Andreyev
1990
- The Chief as Gordon Mackie
- White Hunter, Black Heart as Zibelinsky
1989
- Scandal as Detective Inspector
- Countdown to War as Stalin
- Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale as Harold
- Leaving as Tommy
1988
- The One Game as The Conjuror
- Lucky Sunil as Des Organ
1987
- First Sight ... (Writer)
- Comrades as Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer
- Hidden City as Hillcombe
1986
- Lovejoy as Murray McNally
1985
- A Sense of Freedom as Malkie
1984
- The Bill
- Comfort and Joy as Trevor
- Every Picture Tells a Story as William Scott
1983
- Blackadder as McAngus, Duke of Argyll
- Taggart as DCI Matt Burke
- Local Hero as Watt
- Dead on Time as Foreigner
- No Excuses as Howard
1981
- Bergerac as Acupuncturist
1980
- A Question of Guilt as Captain William Cranstoun
- Gregory's Girl as Alec
1978
- Strangers as Cooper
1977
- The Thin End of the Wedge as John
1975
- The Sweeney as Gibson
- Just Another Saturday
1974
- Playhouse as Max Beerbohm
- The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil as Various
1971
- Michael Regan as Jerry's Mate