Emerging from Edinburgh's vibrant amateur scene, he entered formal training at Glasgow's College of Dramatic Arts after National Service and quickly joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which led to a fifteen-year tenure with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a founding member. There he tackled a range of Shakespearean parts-from Coriolanus and Cassius to Richard II-and earned acclaim for his n… Read more
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