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

• Daredevil: Born Again — Male Dancer
• 2024Shoshana — Tennant (CID)
• 2023Blackadder: The Lost Pilot — McAngus
• 2022The Sea Beast — ADR & Dubbing
• 2020Dragon Rider — Gravelbeard (voice)
• Good Omens — Tulloch
• Hatton Garden — Kenny Collins
• Two Doors Down — Eric
• 2013Dream Me Up Scotty! — Presenter
• Shetland — Cameron Watt
• 2013Two Doors Down — Eric
• 2012Brave — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2012Sir Billi — Butler / Baron McToff (voice)
• 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Captain Bellamy
• Waterloo Road — Gerard Findlay
• Unsolved
• 2002Billy Bongo
• 2002The Count of Monte Cristo — Napoleon Bonaparte
• 2000Beautiful Creatures — Det Insp Hepburn
• 2000Complicity — Kenny Garnet
• Extremely Dangerous — DCS Wallace
• 1998Les Misérables — General
• 1998Little Voice — Bunnie Morris
• 1998Orphans — Hanson
• 1998The Game — Tam
• 1997Deacon Brodie — Alisdair Gilzean
• Renford Rejects
• Turning World — Barry
• Bad Boys — Malky 'Tissue' Mulhernen
• The Crow Road — Lachlan Watt
• 1996When Saturday Comes — Factory Boss
• Backup
• 1995Braveheart — Bride's Father
• Hamish Macbeth — Duncan Soutar
• Signs and Wonders — William Gimble, William Grimble
• 1994Squanto: A Warrior's Tale — Harding
• 1994White Goods — Paul Ryan
• Comics — Haggis
• 1993Down Among the Big Boys — Dan Gibbons
• 1992An Ungentlemanly Act — Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb
• 1992Blame It on the Bellboy — Alfio
• 1992Patriot Games — Dennis Cooley
• 1991Chernobyl: The Final Warning — Dr. Andreyev
• 1991Robin Hood — Harry
• 1991Under Suspicion — Prosecuting Lawyer
• The Chief — Gordon Mackie
• 1990White Hunter, Black Heart — Zibelinsky
• 1989Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale — Harold
• 1989Countdown to War — Stalin
• 1989Leaving — Tommy
• 1989Scandal — Detective Inspector
• 1988Lucky Sunil — Des Organ
• The One Game — The Conjuror
• 1987Comrades — Lanternist, Sergeant Bell, Diorama Showman, Laughing Cavalier, Wollaston, Ranger, Tramp, Sea Captain, McCallum, Silhouettist, and Mad Photographer
• First Sight — Writer
• 1987Hidden City — Hillcombe
• Lovejoy — Murray McNally
• 1985A Sense of Freedom — Malkie
• 1984Comfort and Joy — Trevor
• 1984Every Picture Tells a Story — William Scott
• The Bill
• Blackadder — McAngus, Duke of Argyll
• 1983Dead on Time — Foreigner
• 1983Local Hero — Watt
• No Excuses — Howard
• Taggart — DCI Matt Burke
• Fame Is the Spur — Keir Hardie
• Bergerac — Acupuncturist
• A Question of Guilt — Captain William Cranstoun
• 1980Gregory's Girl — Alec
• 1979Shakespeare's Mounted Foot
• Strangers — Cooper
• 1977The Thin End of the Wedge — John
• 1975Just Another Saturday
• The Sweeney — Gibson
• Playhouse — Max Beerbohm
• 1974The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil — Various
• 1973Travelpass - It's Just the Ticket
• 1971Michael Regan — Jerry's Mate
• Play for Today — Lord Vat / Singer etc
• 1967The Hunch

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Being Stanley Baxter — Self
• 2024Rikki — Self
• 2023Bill Douglas: My Best Friend — Self
• 2022Ooh the Banter! — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Selling Scotland — Self
• 2015Sean Connery: In His Own Words — Self
• 2014Still Game: The Story So Far — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant