Alex Norton
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 74 |
Date of birth | January 27,1950 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Glasgow |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Sally Kinghorn |
Books | There's Been A Life! My Autobiography |
Children | Jock Norton |
Rory Norton | |
Jamie Norton | |
Parents | Sarah Norton |
John Cameron Norton | |
Job | Screenwriter |
Voice acting | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 404554 |
Braveheart
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Count of Monte Cristo
Local Hero
Patriot Games
Comfort and Joy
Shetland
Gregory's Girl
A Sense of Freedom
Blame It on the Bellboy
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Comrades
Prince Edmund
Sir Billi
Renford Rejects
Beautiful Creatures
Extremely Dangerous
Countdown to War
Hidden City
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Scandal
Orphans
Unsolved
Bob Servant
An Ungentlemanly Act
The Crow Road
Robin Hood
Hatton Garden
Sir Billi the Vet
Backup
Bad Boys (UK)
Every Picture Tells a Story
Comics
Murphy's Law
Two Doors Down
Alex Norton Life story
Alexander Hugh Norton is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as DCI Matt Burke in the STV detective drama series Taggart, Eric Baird in BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down, DCS Wallace in Extremely Dangerous, Gerard Findlay in Waterloo Road and Eddie in the Renford Rejects.
Scotch on the Rocks: The TV drama locked away for 50 years
... One of the cast was then 23-year-old Alex Norton, now a star of film and television, including Taggart and Two Doors Down...
Two Doors Down move to BBC One 'well deserved'
... Latimer Crescent is home to Beth and Eric (Arabella Weir and Alex Norton) to Christine (Elaine C Smith) and to Colin (Jonathan Watson) and the show revolves around them and the various friends and neighbours who find reasons to intrude into their home...
Kieran Hodgson: From Two Doors Down to the Edinburgh Fringe
... In Two Doors Down, Hodgson s flat northern vowels stand out in a cast of some of Scotland s best-known actors, including Alex Norton and Arabella Weir...
Two Doors Down creator Simon Carlyle dies aged 48
... The Scottish sitcom has starred Arabella Weir, Kieran Hodgson, Alex Norton and others, and was also created and written by Gregor Sharp...
Two Doors Down move to BBC One 'well deserved'
By Pauline McLeanBBC Scotland arts correspondent
Two Doors Down (TDD) is the Scottish sitcom which has been quietly creeping into living rooms across the UK for a decade.
And it's an ordinary Living Room where The Show is set. Latimer Crescent is home to Beth and Eric (Arabella Weir and Alex Norton ) to Christine (Elaine C Smith) and to Colin (Jonathan Watson ) and The Show revolves around them and the various friends and neighbours who find reasons to intrude into their home.
The Show has been networked from the start, but this, the seventh series, will move to Bbc One .
" It's always had a loyal following, " says Kieran Hodgson who plays Gordon, The Partner of Beth and Eric's son, Ian (Jamie Quinn ).
" But each year, it's got bigger and bigger. And now Bbc One which feels very well deserved. "
Fans of The Show include Graham Norton , Peter Capaldi , Zoe Ball and David Tennant .
" I think it works because there's a great level of universality, " Kieran says.
" Yes, it's set in Paisley and a lot of The Time The Conversation seems to be around very Scottish things but it has a grounding in reality which allows you to really believe in these people and their lives.
" And these lives are being led across the country, and those micro aggressions are being experienced in living rooms from Lerwick to Truro. "
The Show has had a slow but steady rise. Creators Simon Carlyle and Gregor Sharp created the original pilot in 2013 but it was another three years before a series was commissioned.
Characters have come and gone over The Years , and fans will be delighted to see The Return of Cathy, the monstrous but glorious wife of Colin, Played By Jonathan Watson .
" Don't get me wrong, " Jonathan says. " I've enjoyed working with Siobhan Redmund [who plays new girlfriend Anne Marie] and I've enjoyed Colin's adventures on Tinder but having Doon Mackichan back as Cathy has been great. "
" If Eric and Beth anchor the programme, Colin and Cathy bring chaos as soon as they enter The Room . "
And don't assume that the programme revolves around any major happenings. The genius of TDD is that Nothing Happens . Think The Royle Family. Or a swearier version of The Broons .
Kieran Hodgson agrees: " It all revolves around small trivial incidents that then take on rich and obscene life.
" There's one episode where All That happens, is that Alan (Graham " Grado" Stevely) has some spare doughnuts.
" That's The Thing . If you keep the stakes low, there's No End to small events that you can dramatise and explore. "
But the success of Two Doors Down has been tinged with sadness. In August, just weeks after filming on the series finished, Simon Carlyle died. He was 48.
" It's still quite difficult to come to terms with, to be honest, " Jonathan says.
" We had The Press launch the week before last in London. We showed a couple of episodes, and it was really odd because he should've been there.
" He'll certainly be in our thoughts when we sit down to watch the new season. "
Kieran agrees, and says The Show serves as a tribute to his talent.
" But reaching this pinnacle is doubly, triply sad for us all, " he says.
" The delight and pride we have watching these latest episodes is tinged with huge sadness because we were working on them together, just a couple of weeks before he died.
" We've lost a friend first and foremost and someone Taken Away far, far too young, but we've also lost this wonderful project that he and Gregor created and that we all came To Love . "
Two Doors Down is on Bbc One on Friday at 21:30 and Bbc Scotland on Sunday at 22:30.
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