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.
86 acting credits
Acting · 86
Daredevil: Born Again
2025
Shetland
2013
Good Omens
2019
Waterloo Road
2006
Bergerac
1981
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
Playhouse
1974
The Sweeney
1975
The Bill
1984
Blackadder
1983
Brave
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Taggart
1983
Braveheart
1995
Lovejoy
1986
The Chief
1990
The Count of Monte Cristo
2002
Hamish Macbeth
1995
Strangers
1978
Two Doors Down
2016
Patriot Games
1992
Renford Rejects
1997
Les Misérables
1998
Hatton Garden
2019
Backup
1995
Scandal
1989
Dragon Rider
2020
The Crow Road
1996
Local Hero
1983
Bad Boys
1996
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
Extremely Dangerous
1999
Signs and Wonders
1995
Robin Hood
1991
Little Voice
1998
Beautiful Creatures
2000
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
Under Suspicion
1991
The One Game
1988
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974
Complicity
2000
Shoshana
2024
Sir Billi
2012
When Saturday Comes
1996
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
Unsolved
2004
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
Comrades
1987
Orphans
1998
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
Gregory's Girl
1980
Hidden City
1987
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
Countdown to War
1989
Still Game: The Story So Far
2014
An Ungentlemanly Act
1992
Deacon Brodie
1997
Dead on Time
1983
Lucky Sunil
1988
Comfort and Joy
1984
Down Among the Big Boys
1993
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023
Just Another Saturday
1975
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989
Ooh the Banter!
2022
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
White Goods
1994
Michael Regan
1971
Two Doors Down
2013
A Sense of Freedom
1985
Leaving
1989
Rikki
2024
Every Picture Tells a Story
1984
The Hunch
1967
Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
1979
The Game
1998
Two doors down - 2017 christmas special
2017
Dream Me Up Scotty!
2013
Billy Bongo
2002
Two doors down - 2021 christmas special
2021
Two doors down - 2020 christmas special
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Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
1973
Two doors down - 2025 christmas special
2025
Two doors down - 2022 Christmas special
2022
Selling Scotland
2019