Everything about John Gordon Sinclair totally explained
John Gordon Sinclair (born 1962 in
Glasgow) is a
Scottish actor most famous for playing Gregory in
Gregory's Girl.
Sinclair joined the
Glasgow 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 series of short films by documentary director
Bill Forsyth, 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 "I 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.
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 also 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 is currently touring in Manchester with the
The Producers.
Personal life
Sinclair was engaged to West End singing star
Ruthie Henshall but the engagement didn't come to fruition.
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