Iain Cuthbertson
Iain Cuthbertson | |
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Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 4 January 1930
Died | 4 September 2009 Ayr, Scotland | (aged 79)
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1955-2003 |
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Iain Cuthbertson (4 January 1930 – 4 September 2009) was a Scottish character actor and theatre director. He was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive gravelly, heavily accented voice. He had lead roles in The Borderers (1968–70),Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), Budgie (1971–72), its spinoff Charles Endell Esquire (1979–80), Danger UXB (1979) and Sutherland's Law (1973–76), as well as the films The Railway Children (1970), and Gorillas in the Mist (1988). He guest starred in many prominent British shows including The Avengers, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Onedin Line, Survivors, Ripping Yarns, Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Juliet Bravo, Rab C. Nesbitt, Minder, Inspector Morse and Agatha Christie's Poirot.
Early life
Born in 1930, the son of the biochemist
He spent two years'
His original wish was for a job in the
Theatre career
Cuthbertson started acting at the Glasgow
In 1965 he became Associate Director of London's Royal Court Theatre.[6]
Television career
His most memorable television role was as the eponymous
A rather different achievement was his portrayal of the criminal and businessman Charlie Endell in both Budgie (London Weekend Television/ITV) with Adam Faith (1971–72) and its sequel Charles Endell Esquire (Scottish Television/ITV) in 1979.
Other roles include the lead in
He suffered a crippling stroke in January 1982, which forced him to give up theatre for fear of forgetting his lines. He resumed television and film work, though, as his lines could be written on crib boards. entitled "Sweet Danger".
Minor parts in ongoing series include appearances in
On film, he appeared as Charles Waterbury in The Railway Children (1970).
Personal life
Cuthbertson's first marriage, to Anne Kristen in 1964, was dissolved in 1988. His his second wife, Janet Smith, survived him.[10]
From 1975 to 1978, he served as Rector of the University of Aberdeen.[10] He listed his hobbies as sailing and fishing, and, after retiring, he lived in Dalrymple, Ayrshire.
He suffered a severe stroke in 1982, which caused paralysis down one side of his body and speech loss. It took him almost two years to recover sufficiently to be able to act again. Although he avoided live theatre work thereafter, owing to a fear of forgetting and/or stumbling on lines, he was still able to take parts in films and television. He died in 2009 at Ayr Hospital and was cremated.[11]
Filmography
Film
Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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1970 | The Railway Children | Charles Waterbury | Lionel Jeffries | |
1972 | Up the Chastity Belt | Teutonic Knight | Bob Kellett | |
1984 | John Wycliffe: The Morning Star | Chancellor Rigg | Tony Tew | |
1985 | The Assam Garden | Arthur | Mary McMurray | |
1986 | Smart Money | Mr. Whyte | Bernard Rose | |
1988 | Gorillas in the Mist | Dr. Louis Leakey | Michael Apted | |
1989 | Scandal | Lord Hailsham | Michael Caton-Jones | |
1989 | The Clouds | Voice | Patrick Keiller | Short film |
1991 | Let Him Have It | Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe | Peter Medak | |
1994 | Chasing the Deer | Tullibardine | Graham Holloway | |
1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | Dr. McKechnie | David Yates | |
2001 | Strictly Sinatra | Connolly | Peter Capaldi | |
2003 | Hamlet | Ghost | Michael Mundell |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1957 | The Boy David | Goliath of Gath | Television film |
1959 | Guilty Together | Jock Macdonald | Television film |
1960 | Para Handy - Master Mariner | Hurricane Jack | 1.03 "A Happy New Year" |
1960 | ITV Play of the Week
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Judd | 6.14 "The Accomplices" |
1962 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | Provost Thomson | 3.24 "Storm in a Teacup" |
1966 | The Wednesday Play | Major Mallet | 1.63 "Toddler on the Run" |
1966 | Adam Adamant Lives! | Colonel Mannering | 1.16 "D for Destruction" |
1966 | ITV Sunday Night Drama | Aegetes | 1.12 "Four Triumphant: St Andrew" |
1966 | This Man Craig | Campbell Maddox | 2.13 "Fresh Off the Boat" |
1967 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Dr. Markham | 1.05 "Crabbe's Practice" |
1968-1970 | The Borderers | Sir Walter Ker of Cessford | 26 episodes |
1969 | The Avengers | Kruger | 7.27 "Thingumajig" |
1969 | Mogul
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King Watt | 5.24 "This Place Is a Paradise, Mister" |
1969 | ITV Playhouse
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Mr. Campbell QC | 2.37 "Justice Is a Woman" |
1970 | Department S | Kendall | 2.15 "Spencer Bodily Is Sixty Years Old" |
1970 | Manhunt | Helldorf | 1.10 "With a Sort of Love" |
1970 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | William Stead | 5.30 "Lilly: Part 1" 5.31 "Lilly: Part 2" |
1970 | Diamond Crack Diamond | Mark Terson | 4 episodes |
1971 | Dr. Finlay's Casebook | The Provost | 8.16 "The Burgess Ticket" |
1971-1972 | Budgie | Charlie Endell | 24 episodes |
1971 | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Dr. Thomas Arnold | Television miniseries |
1971 | The Onedin Line | Captain Kirkwood | 1.11 "Mutiny" |
1972 | The Stone Tape | Roy Collinson | Television film |
1972 | The Adventures of Black Beauty | Sergeant Major Fletcher | 1.15 "The Recruiting Sergeant" |
1973 | The New Road | Colonel Barisdale | 1.02 "Col-of-the-Tricks" 1.03 "A Kistful of Muskets" |
1973 | Scotch on the Rocks | Chief Constable Blair | 4 episodes |
1973-1976 | Sutherland's Law | John Sutherland | 46 episodes |
1973 | The Protectors | Wyatt | 2.06 "Petard" |
1973 | Arthur of the Britons | Bavick | 2.09 "Daughter of the King" |
1974 | Play for Today | Headmaster | 4.17 "Pidgeon: Hawk or Dove?" |
1974 | ITV Sunday Night Theatre | The Doctor | 6.07 "Geography of a Horse Dreamer" |
1974 | The Pallisers | Major Mackintosh | 1.14 "Part Fourteen" |
1976 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Rufio | Television film |
1977 | Children of the Stones | Rafael Hendrick / Sir Joshua Litten | Television miniseries |
1977 | The Ghosts of Motley Hall | Godfrey of Basingstoke | 2.04 "Godfrey of Basingstoke" |
1977 | Survivors | McAlister | 3.12 "Power" |
1977 | The Duchess of Duke Street | Vicar | 2.04 "Winter Lament" 2.12 "The Legion of the Living" |
1977 | Ripping Yarns | Dr. Farson | 1.04 "Murder at Moorstones Manor" |
1977 | The Sunday Drama | Gilbert Neilson | 1.14 "Caledonian Cascade" |
1978 | Play for Today | Richard Cleaver | 8.15 "Destiny" |
1978 | The Standard | Sir Henry Lockwood | 1.07 "The Name of the Game" |
1978 | Doctor Who
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Garron | 16.01 "The Ribos Operation" |
1978 | Z-Cars | Det. Chief Supt. Stanworth | 13.02 "Departures" |
1978 | The Voyage of Charles Darwin | Dr. Robert Darwin | 1.01 "I Was Considered a Very Ordinary Boy" 1.03 "How Wide Was the Distance Between Savage and Civilised Man" 1.06 "Suppose That All Animals and All Plants Are Represented by the Branches of a Tree - The Tree of Life" |
1979 | Danger UXB | Doctor Gillespie | 6 episodes |
1979 | The Mourning Brooch | Dicky Doig | Television miniseries |
1979 | ITV Playhouse | Julian Karswell | 11.09 Casting the Runes
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1979-1980 | Charles Endell, Esq
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Charlie Endell | 6 episodes |
1979 | The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game | Lankester | 1.05 "Horsenap" |
1980 | We, the Accused | Inspector Boltro | Television miniseries |
1980 | The Dick Emery Christmas Show: For Whom the Jingle Bells Toll | Jock 'The Razor' Fraser | Television film |
1981 | The Walls of Jericho | Alexander Russell | 1.01 "Oh, Sophia!" 1.02 "Order of Battle" 1.03 "Sunshine and Storm" |
1981 | Vice Versa | Dr. Grimstone | 7 episodes |
1982 | Rep | J.C. Benton | Television miniseries |
1983 | Storyboard | Editor | 1.06 "Lytton's Diary" |
1984 | The Glory Boys | Minister | 1.03 "Episode Three" |
1984 | Juliet Bravo | Defence Counsel | 5.07 "Lost and Found" |
1985 | Off Peak | Dick Corbett | Television film |
1985-1987 | Super Gran | The Scunner Campbell | 27 episodes |
1986 | First Among Equals | Colin Dawson | 1.02 "Episode Two" |
1986 | The Return of the Antelope | Dr. McMurdo | 2.02 "Philippa's Brave Deed" |
1986 | The Stamp of Greatness | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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1.01 "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes" |
1987 | Bulman | Desmond Geraldine | 2.02 "Death by Misadventure" |
1987 | The Venus de Milo Instead | Headmaster | Television film |
1987 | A Perfect Spy | Makepeace Watermaster | 1.01 "Episode One" |
1988 | Hannay | Sheriff Elliston | 1.05 "Act of Riot" |
1988 | Ten Great Writers of the Modern World | Mynheer Peeperkorn | 1.05 "Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain'" |
1988 | The Ray Bradbury Theatre
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Prosecuting Counsel | 2.07 "Punishment Without Crime" |
1988 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Drunk Man | 1.01 "Seasonal Greet" |
1989 | Minder | Bernard McKenna | 7.06 "The Wrong Goodbye" |
1989 | The Justice Game | Jack Flynn | 4 episodes |
1989 | Screenplay
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Seer of Lublin | 4.08 "The Spirit of Man" Segment: "The Night of Simhat Torah" |
1989 | Hard Cases | Magistrate | 2.07 "Episode Seven" |
1989 | City Lights | Dr. Davis | 4.02 "Play It Again, Willie" |
1990 | Campion | Brett Savanake | 2.01 "Sweet Danger" |
1990 | Inspector Morse | Desmond McNutt | 4.04 "Masonic Mysteries" |
1990 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Sheriff | 1.03 "City of Culture" |
1990-1991 | Screenplay | Edgar / Julian Vlad | 5.02 "Antonia and Jane" 5.12 "Shoot the Revolution" |
1992 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Judge | 2.04 "That's Entertainment" |
1992 | The Guilty | Lord Chancellor | Television film |
1993 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Gervase Chevenix | 5.07 "Dead Man's Mirror" |
1994 | Headhunters | Malcolm Standish | 1.01 "The Golden Hello" |
1994 | Moonacre | Father Francis | 6 episodes |
1994 | Seaforth | Lord Scawton | Television miniseries |
1995 | Oliver's Travels | Davidson | 1.05 "Do We Look Like That?" |
1995 | The Tales of Para Handy | Angus Monroe | 2.02 "Para Handy's Piper" |
1995 | Casualty | Dermot Needle | 10.16 "Castles in the Air" |
1997 | Painted Lady | Charles Stafford | Television miniseries |
1997 | The Baldy Man | 2.03 "Barbecue: China Doll" | |
1999 | Casualty | Albert | 14.01 "Calm Before the Storm: Part One" 14.02 "Calm Before the Storm: Part Two" |
2000 | Brotherly Love | Robert MacDougall | 1.05 "Art and Soul" |
Radio
- 1981 A J Cronin; BBC R4 Classic Serial 5 parts 11/1/1981-8/11/1981.[12]
- 1988 Our Roman Cousins by Bruce Stewart; BBC R4 Saturday Night Theatre 30/01/1988.[13]
- 1993 Twelfth Night as Malvolio; BBC R3 3/1/1993.[14]
References
- ^ "Obituary: Iain Cuthbertson". The Scotsman. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- Sunday Post1973
- ^ a b Gray, Sadie. "Obituary - The Times". The Times.
- ^ "Citizens Theatre". Citz.co.uk. 11 September 1945. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- The Saltire Society, Edinburgh, pp. 75 - 77
- ^ Custom byline text: Chris Watt (8 September 2009). "Tributes as actor Iain Cuthbertson dies aged 79". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ "Iain Cuthbertson: Actor who played the procurator-fiscal in 'Sutherland's Law' and Charlie Endell in 'Budgie'". The Independent. London. 11 September 2009.
- ^ "The House with the Green Shutters". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ISBN 0-85112-744-4.
- ^ a b Gaughan, Gavin (11 September 2009). "Iain Cuthbertson - Scottish actor - Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Iain Cuthbertson: Actor who played the procurator-fiscal in 'Sutherland's Law' and Charlie Endell in 'Budgie'". The Independent. 11 September 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ "Radio Plays 1945-1997: Serials, DIVERSITY website - radio drama, plays". Suttonelms.org.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ "Bruce Stewart radio drama - DIVERSITY WEBSITE". Suttonelms.org.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ "BBC Radio 7 - Shakespeare - Twelfth Night". BBC. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
External links
- Iain Cuthbertson at IMDb