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.
As actor 85
Daredevil: Born Again
2025
Shetland
2013
Good Omens
2019
Waterloo Road
2006
Bergerac
1981
Playhouse
1974
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
Brave
2012
The Bill
1984
The Sweeney
1975
Blackadder
1983
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Braveheart
1995
Taggart
1983
Lovejoy
1986
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
The Chief
1990
Strangers
1978
Hamish Macbeth
1995
Patriot Games
1992
Renford Rejects
1997
Backup
1995
Two Doors Down
2016
Les Misérables
1998
Under Suspicion
1991
No Excuses
1983
A Question of Guilt
1980
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
Dragon Rider
2020
Scandal
1989
Hatton Garden
2019
Comics
1993
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
Bad Boys
1996
Local Hero
1983
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
Unsolved
2004
Extremely Dangerous
1999
Little Voice
1998
The Crow Road
1996
Fame Is the Spur
1982
Signs and Wonders
1995
Shoshana
2024
Robin Hood
1991
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
An Ungentlemanly Act
1992
Gregory's Girl
1980
When Saturday Comes
1996
The Hunch
1967
The One Game
1988
Sir Billi
2012
Beautiful Creatures
2000
Complicity
2000
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989
Comfort and Joy
1984
Still Game: The Story So Far
2014
Hidden City
1987
Down Among the Big Boys
1993
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
A Sense of Freedom
1985
Comrades
1987
Dead on Time
1983
Dream Me Up Scotty!
2013
Orphans
1998
Countdown to War
1989
Ooh the Banter!
2022
Every Picture Tells a Story
1984
Deacon Brodie
1997
Leaving
1989
Just Another Saturday
1975
White Goods
1994
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Two Doors Down
2013
The Game
1998
Lucky Sunil
1988
Rikki
2024
Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
1979
Michael Regan
1971
Billy Bongo
2002
Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
1973
Selling Scotland
2019
