John Gordon Sinclair

Known for ActingBorn 1962-02-04 (age 64)Glasgow, Scotland, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Gordon Sinclair (born 1962, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor most famous for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl. He was born as Gordon John but took the stage name 'John Gordon Sinclair' because Equity already had a Gordon John registered. He joined Glasgow's Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met fellow fan of Canadian progressive rock group Rush, Robert Buchanan. As a result he starred in a number of films by director Bill Forsyth, perhaps the most famous of which was 1981's Gregory's Girl, shot when he was 19 years old. He reprised the role nearly two decades later in Gregory's Two Girls, and also appeared in Forsyth's Local Hero. He has continued to act on stage and screen. Other roles include parts in Goodbye Mr Steadman, Mad About Alice Gasping and Roman Road. He was also in the first series of LWT's Hot Metal and both the radio and television sitcom An Actor's Life For Me. He played Dan Weir in Espedair Street, the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the Iain Banks novel, as well as playing the lead part of Dr. Finlay in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag. He appeared in the 1982 Scottish squad's World Cup song "We Have a Dream", a number 5 hit in the UK, which was written and performed by BA Robertson. It featured John Gordon Sinclair speaking his recollection of a dream about Scottish football success. He later revived this Scottish footballing connection by narrating the 2006-07 BBC Scotland documentary series That Was The Team That Was. John Gordon Sinclair played Frank McClusky, a leading character, in the 1990 John Byrne TV serial "Your Cheatin' Heart". He also appeared in "Local Hero". Sinclair played one of the main characters in the Tesco TV adverts in the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks. He most recently appeared in the West End in The Producers playing the part of Leo Bloom alongside Fred Applegate. He voiced all the male characters (except for Finbar) in HIT Entertainment's Rubbadubbers. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1995 for Best Actor in a Musical for his 1994 performance in "She Loves Me". Sinclair also performed the part of "Master of Ceremonies" in Mike Oldfield's premiere performance of Tubular Bells II at Edinburgh Castle in 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gordon Sinclair , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells II

Self Catering

Murder in Mind

Your Cheatin' Heart

Raspberry Ripple

Agatha Christie's Marple

Living Apart Together

McDonald & Dodds

Death in Paradise

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Rubbadubbers

Diana and I

Ill Behaviour

World War Z

Nelson's Column

Scot Squad

Nico, 1988

An Actor's Life for Me

Snakes and Ladders

Mad About Alice

Local Hero

Gregory's Girl

Bergerac

Walter and June

Traces

Siblings

Britannia Hospital

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Miss Marx

That Sinking Feeling

Your Cheatin' Heart

"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth

Erik the Viking

My Summer With Des

Loved by You

Wogan

The Girl in the Picture

James Bond Down River

Gregory's Two Girls

The Brylcreem Boys

West Skerra Light

Long Night at Blackstone

Rubbadubbers: Splish! Splash! Splosh!

Rubbadubbers: Bathtime Scramble!

Rubbadubbers: Tubb's Pirate Treasure

Roman Road

Fetch the Vet