Alex Norton
Acting • Born 1950-01-27
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
79 credits
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Movie • 2006
Captain Bellamy
Comfort and Joy
Movie • 1984
Trevor
Local Hero
Movie • 1983
Watt
Complicity
Movie • 2000
Kenny Garnet
Blame It on the Bellboy
Movie • 1992
Alfio
Patriot Games
Movie • 1992
Dennis Cooley
A Sense of Freedom
Movie • 1985
Malkie
Beautiful Creatures
Movie • 2000
Det Insp Hepburn
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Movie • 1994
Harding
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Movie • 2023
McAngus
The Game
Movie • 1998
Tam
Lucky Sunil
Movie • 1988
Des Organ
Sir Billi
Movie • 2012
Butler / Baron McToff (voice)
Dead on Time
Movie • 1983
Foreigner
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Movie • 1974
Various
Billy Bongo
Movie • 2002
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie • 2002
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leaving
Movie • 1989
Tommy
When Saturday Comes
Movie • 1996
Factory Boss
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Movie • 2023
Self
Braveheart
Movie • 1995
Bride's Father
Still Game: The Story So Far
Movie • 2014
Self
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Movie • 2015
Self
Ooh the Banter!
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Two Doors Down
Movie • 2013
Eric
The Hunch
Movie • 1967
Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
Movie • 1973
Gregory's Girl
Movie • 1981
Alec
Little Voice
Movie • 1998
Bunnie Morris
Comrades
Movie • 1987
Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer
Scandal
Movie • 1989
Detective Inspector
An Ungentlemanly Act
Movie • 1992
Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
Deacon Brodie
Movie • 1997
Alisdair Gilzean
Hidden City
Movie • 1987
Hillcombe
Orphans
Movie • 1998
Hanson
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Movie • 1989
Harold
Every Picture Tells a Story
Movie • 1984
William Scott
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Movie • 1991
Dr. Andreyev
Under Suspicion
Movie • 1991
Prosecuting Lawyer
White Hunter, Black Heart
Movie • 1990
Zibelinsky
Les Misérables
Movie • 1998
General
Robin Hood
Movie • 1991
Harry
White Goods
Movie • 1994
Paul Ryan
Just Another Saturday
Movie • 1975
Down Among the Big Boys
Movie • 1993
Dan Gibbons
The Thin End of the Wedge
Movie • 1977
John
Countdown to War
Movie • 1989
Stalin
Dragon Rider
Movie • 2020
Gravelbeard (voice)
Dream Me Up Scotty!
Movie • 2013
Presenter
Michael Regan
Movie • 1971
Jerry's Mate
Rikki
Movie • 2024
Self
Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
Movie • 1979
Shoshana
Movie • 2024
Tennant (CID)
Brave
Movie • 2012
Additional Voices (voice)
Being Stanley Baxter
Movie • 2025
Self
The Bill
TV • 1984
Taggart
TV • 1983
DCI Matt Burke
Renford Rejects
TV • 1997
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Gibson
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Murray McNally
Unsolved
TV • 2004
Blackadder
TV • 1983
McAngus, Duke of Argyll
Backup
TV • 1995
Bad Boys
TV • 1996
Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
Good Omens
TV • 2019
Tulloch
Shetland
TV • 2013
Cameron Watt
Two Doors Down
TV • 2016
Eric
The One Game
TV • 1988
The Conjuror
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Acupuncturist
The Crow Road
TV • 1996
Lachlan Watt
Extremely Dangerous
TV • 1999
DCS Wallace
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
Hatton Garden
TV • 2019
Kenny Collins
Hamish Macbeth
TV • 1995
Duncan Soutar
Waterloo Road
TV • 2006
Gerard Findlay
Daredevil: Born Again
TV • 2025
Male Dancer
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Max Beerbohm
The Chief
TV • 1990
Gordon Mackie
Strangers
TV • 1978
Cooper