Alexander Morton


Alexander "Sandy" Morton is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as Andy Semple in Take The High Road, Golly MacKenzie in Monarch of the Glen and Billy Kennedy in River City.

Acting career

Morton trained in London at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1965–68 and is well known for his roles in several leading drama series, such as Taggart, Second Sight, Between the Lines, Minder, and Casualty; movies such as Croupier and London to Brighton; and single dramas The One That Got Away, Looking After Jo Jo, and The Man-Eating Wolves of Gysinge.
He is best known for playing the Golly Mackenzie in the BBC TV series Monarch of the Glen, and before that made regular appearances over the 1980s and 1990s as the evil Andy Semple in Scottish soap Take the High Road.
Highlights of his stage career include a Scots rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth and R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, both directed by Robert Carlyle, who was a founder member, with Morton, of the Raindog Theatre Company in the 1990s. Morton also worked regularly with theatre companies 7:84 and Borderline, and has appeared at the Traverse, the Lyceum, the Bush, the Royal Court, in repertory all over the UK, as well as regular appearances in pantomime, notably at Glasgow's King's Theatre.
In 2006, Morton played the Prince of Darkness in the BBC radio adaptation of Dracula. He was also the first actor to play Detective Inspector John Rebus in the first adaptation of Ian Rankin's Rebus series of books. He regularly provides voices for video games, including Heavenly Sword, The Witcher series and . From 2012–2015, Morton played Criminal Billy Kennedy in Scottish soap opera River City. The character of Billy Kennedy was briefly reprised in January 2016. Fellow Scottish actor Jon Morrison took over the role from Morton.
He has been involved in numerous albums by the Swiss Celtic / Melodic Death Metal band Eluveitie

Personal life

Morton has been married three times, and has a child – Kerry and Jamie – from each of his first two marriages. His first wife was Pam Scotcher; his second was Denise; and his third is Jane, whom he met before filming for Monarch of the Glen got underway. She was his landlady while he was doing television work in London, where they now live with her children.

Film and television credits

Radio credits