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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.058 |
| Birthday | 1950-01-27 |
| Place of Birth | Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
7.366/16020
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
1984
Comfort and Joy
6.5/54
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between t...
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Comfort and Joy
1983
Local Hero
6.698/346
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Local Hero
2000
Complicity
5.9/13
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some m...
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Complicity
1992
Blame It on the Bellboy
5.3/54
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
Patriot Games
6.679/1623
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1985
A Sense of Freedom
6.4/19
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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A Sense of Freedom
2000
Beautiful Creatures
5.7/71
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
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Beautiful Creatures
1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
6.6/39
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
2023
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
7/6
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to uncover the story of the previously-unseen pilot epis...
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Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
1998
The Game
0/0
A play about three Scottish football fans (and one of their long suffering football widow wives!) enduring the trials of their team in the 1978 FIFA W...
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The Game
1988
Lucky Sunil
0/0
Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles o...
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Lucky Sunil
2012
Sir Billi
3.4/17
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to...
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Sir Billi
1983
Dead on Time
6.5/8
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to...
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Dead on Time
1974
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
0/0
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Cu...
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
2002
Billy Bongo
0/0
A young Scottish man becomes a local celebrity... but to what end?
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Billy Bongo
2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
7.7/1800
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1989
Leaving
0/0
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in lif...
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Leaving
1996
When Saturday Comes
5.9/25
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other idea...
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When Saturday Comes
2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
0/0
The story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell. Bill Doug...
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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
1995
Braveheart
7.942/10179
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...
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Braveheart
2014
Still Game: The Story So Far
10/1
A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and super fans. Including a look...
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Still Game: The Story So Far
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
6/1
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Sco...
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2022
Ooh the Banter!
0/0
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – i...
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Ooh the Banter!
2013
Two Doors Down
6.5/2
Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family, friends and neighbours descend on their home. As...
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Two Doors Down
1967
The Hunch
0/0
A pleasure cruiser is abandoned by all aboard and Ian, Janet and Harry, children of a trawler skipper go out in their launch to claim her. They are ma...
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The Hunch
1973
Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
0/0
Travelling the Scottish Highlands by bus.
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Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
1981
Gregory's Girl
6.74/131
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
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Gregory's Girl
1998
Little Voice
6.5/186
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedro...
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Little Voice
1987
Comrades
6.725/20
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign t...
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Comrades
1989
Scandal
5.9/90
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through...
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Scandal
1992
An Ungentlemanly Act
5.5/13
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually...
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An Ungentlemanly Act
1997
Deacon Brodie
0/0
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town counc...
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Deacon Brodie
1987
Hidden City
5.1/7
Cassies Stuart leads the uncooperative Charles Dance into a world of misplaces government secrets, capalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will...
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Hidden City
1998
Orphans
6.7/33
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—s...
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Orphans
1989
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
7/1
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny m...
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1984
Every Picture Tells a Story
0/0
James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.
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Every Picture Tells a Story
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
5.2/12
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
Under Suspicion
5.9/104
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to...
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Under Suspicion
1990
White Hunter, Black Heart
6.3/277
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his c...
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White Hunter, Black Heart
1998
Les Misérables
7.193/625
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1991
Robin Hood
5.7/159
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
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Robin Hood
1994
White Goods
6/1
Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, th...
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White Goods
1975
Just Another Saturday
8/4
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns th...
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Just Another Saturday
1993
Down Among the Big Boys
7/2
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy...
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Down Among the Big Boys
1977
The Thin End of the Wedge
0/0
A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in th...
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The Thin End of the Wedge
1989
Countdown to War
5/2
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until...
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Countdown to War
2020
Dragon Rider
7.1/155
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe ha...
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Dragon Rider
2013
Dream Me Up Scotty!
0/0
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our...
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Dream Me Up Scotty!
1971
Michael Regan
0/0
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.
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Michael Regan
2024
Rikki
0/0
A centenary celebration of the life and legacy of Rikki Fulton, one of Scotland’s most beloved comic actors. Ashley Jensen narrates an affectionate t...
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