recommended me for a dramatic art and related studies course at Telford College that I would get a bursary for. So I thought it over, resigned, and moved into the acting business. I’ve been very, very lucky.”
lifelong member of the creative practitioners’ union Equity, has toured performing Shakespeare, including starring in As You Like It as Adam, and appeared in a number of television and film roles, as well as delighting as fan-favourite Eric in Still Game.
With an acting career spanning over 40 years, James, who is a
Image shows James smiling and waving James says that some of the camaraderie and sense of humour of life in the forces carried over to life on set as an actor, too. He recalls one such moment while working on another iconic Scottish TV series: Taggart.
scene after I was ‘murdered’ where I was placed in the hospital morgue. It was like a big filing cabinet. I was made up with white make up, shirt off, and put into the third tier, and the guy was to be brought in to identify me. It turned out the extra was too small to see “I’ve played a killer in Taggart, and into the third tier. So I had to come I’ve been murdered in an episode out and get into a lower one for as well,” said James. “There was a another take, and I was freezing 8
