Anthony Strachan

Overview

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Anthony Strachan

Known For

Karen Pirie
TV Show 2022

Karen Pirie

When a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?

A Castle for Christmas
1h 38m
Movie 2021

A Castle for Christmas

To escape a scandal, a bestselling author journeys to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle -- and faces off with the grumpy duke who owns it.

Whisky Galore
1h 38m
Movie 2016

Whisky Galore

The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.

Sunset Song
2h 15m
Movie 2015

Sunset Song

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Scotland In A Day
0h 40m
Movie 2014

Scotland In A Day

Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.

Redirected
1h 39m
Movie 2014

Redirected

Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.

High Times
0h 22m
TV Show 2004

High Times

High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.

Border Cafe
1h 0m
TV Show 2000

Border Cafe

Comedy drama series from Preston Front writer Tim Firth. Set in the fictional town of Hale Point on the borders of England and Wales, home to a cross-section of amazing, colourful characters who, under normal circumstances, would never have met. Rock star Charlotte Smith quits at the height of her fame and buys the American diner on the outskirts of her home town so she can settle down with her builder boyfriend David Doyle. He invites his daft elder brother Kidder to become the chef while the nervous Ronnie gives up her life as "Charlotte" in a copycat band to become waitress. The Border Cafe becomes a meeting place for all sorts of curious characters and a centre of intrigue. But as the cafe takes off, the whole notion of whose life depends on whose starts to shift with dramatic consequences

Biography

Scottish actor of stage, film and TV, Anthony Strachan has worked extensively in television including: Mountain Goats BBC 1; Bob Servant Series 2 BBC Scotland; Sunset Song Terence Davies; Bob Servant Independent BBC Scotland; Garrow’s Law Twenty Twenty Productions; Gary Tank Commander, Rab C Nesbitt, Will And Greg Sketch Show BBC Comedy Unit; Lip Service Kudos For BBC 3; Hotel Babylon Carnival Productions For BBC; Pramface, Holby City, Sunburn BBC; Inspector Rebus, Taggart SMG; High Times 2, High Times STV; Monarch Of The Glen Ecosse; Border Café Series Hartswood; Young Persons Guide To Being A Rockstar Channel 4 Television; Take The High Road Scottish Television. Antony’s film work includes: Sunset Song Terence Davies; Redirected Kino Kultas, Emilis Velyvis; Afterlife Gabriel Films; Sylvia Ariel Films; Once Upon A Time In The Midlands Midland Films; 16 Years Of Alcohol 16 Years Ltd; Young Blades Mario Andreacchio; The Trench William Boyd; Rbs Commerical; The Right Move Commerical. On the Stage Antony’s work includes: The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, National Theatre Of Scotland; Mother Goose, Perth Theatre; Sergeant Cracker’s Christmas Quest, Carnegie Hall; Peter Pan 360 Entertainment, San Francisco; Jack And The Beanstalk, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, ; Babes In The Wood, Aladdin Adam Smith Theatre; Sunshine On Leith Dundee Rep and Festival Theatre Edinburgh; A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing Royal Lyceum; Once Upon A Dragon, The Houghmagandie Grid Iron; Elizabeth Gordon Quinn National Theatre of Scotland; Into The Dark Visible Fictions; Much Ado About Nothing, Worzel Gummidge Byre Theatre; Brazil The Latchmere Theatre; When The Dons Were Kings Lemon Tree; The Good Person Of Szechwan, Petra Tag Theatre Company; The Arbor Sheffield Crucible Theatre.

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