Alex Norton
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 85
Movies (56)
Being Stanley Baxter2025Self
Rikki2024Self
Shoshana2024Tennant (CID)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend2023Self
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot2023McAngus
Ooh the Banter!2022Self (archive footage)
Dragon Rider2020Gravelbeard (voice)
Selling Scotland2019Self
Sean Connery: In His Own Words2015Self
Still Game: The Story So Far2014Self
Two Doors Down2013Eric
Dream Me Up Scotty!2013Presenter
Brave2012Additional Voices (voice)
Sir Billi2012Butler / Baron McToff (voice)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2006Captain Bellamy
The Count of Monte Cristo2002Napoleon Bonaparte- Billy Bongo2002
Beautiful Creatures2000Det Insp Hepburn
Complicity2000Kenny Garnet
Little Voice1998Bunnie Morris
Orphans1998Hanson
The Game1998Tam
Les Misérables1998General
Deacon Brodie1997Alisdair Gilzean
When Saturday Comes1996Factory Boss
Braveheart1995Bride's Father
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale1994Harding
White Goods1994Paul Ryan
Down Among the Big Boys1993Dan Gibbons
An Ungentlemanly Act1992Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
Shows (29)
Daredevil: Born Again2025Male Dancer
Good Omens2019Tulloch
Hatton Garden2019Kenny Collins
Two Doors Down2016Eric
Shetland2013Cameron Watt
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip2011Self - Participant
Waterloo Road2006Gerard Findlay- Unsolved2004
Extremely Dangerous1999DCS Wallace
Renford Rejects1997
The Crow Road1996Lachlan Watt- Bad Boys1996Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
Backup1995
Hamish Macbeth1995Duncan Soutar
Signs and Wonders1995William Gimble
Comics1993Haggis
The Chief1990Gordon Mackie
The One Game1988The Conjuror
Lovejoy1986Murray McNally
The Bill1984
Taggart1983DCI Matt Burke
Blackadder1983McAngus, Duke of Argyll- No Excuses1983Howard
- Fame Is the Spur1982Keir Hardie
Bergerac1981Acupuncturist- A Question of Guilt1980Captain William Cranstoun
Strangers1978Cooper
The Sweeney1975Gibson
Playhouse1974Max Beerbohm