biography
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| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Actor and director, born in Greenock, Inverclyde, WC Scotland, UK. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and became well known as a theatre actor and director during the 1980s. His first television role was in 1972, in the series My Good Woman, other appearances including Crown Court (1973–84) and Only When I Laugh (1979–82). His film work includes roles in A Passage to India (1984), Fellow Traveller (1990), and The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), but it was his characterization of Victor Meldrew in several series of One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000, BAFTAs in 1991 and 1993) that made him a national figure, his exasperated ‘I don't believe it!’ becoming a national catch-phrase. He was elected Rector of Glasgow University in 1996. |
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