1. Adam Russell Hunter was a Scottish television, stage and film actor.
12 Facts About Russell Hunter
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Russell Hunter made guest appearances in television series such as The Sweeney, Doctor Who, Taggart, A Touch of Frost, The Bill and The Return of Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of Silver Blaze.
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Russell Hunter went from school to an apprenticeship in a Clydebank shipyard.
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Under the stage name Russell Hunter, he acted at Perth Rep and at the Glasgow Unity Theatre performing in the very first Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1947 in The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey, was a comedian in summer variety shows and toured with a one-man show.
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Russell Hunter followed these by playing a pilot in the Battle of Britain drama Angels One Five in 1951.
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Russell Hunter had two appearances in one-man plays performed on BBC Scotland in the early 1970s: Cocky, where he played Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, which ended with his speech to the jury defending Helen McDougal, Burke's wife, in the Burke and Hare case, and Jock, where he played an archetypal Scottish soldier guarding a military museum.
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Russell Hunter played 'Old Fred' in a 1974 episode of Thriller.
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Russell Hunter appeared in an episode of Mind Your Language as a minor character in the episode "I Belong To Glasgow"; he played an opinionated chauffeur who kept clashing with the students.
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Russell Hunter appeared in the TV sitcom Lovejoy as a Scottish submariner in the episode "Angel Trousers".
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Russell Hunter appeared as different characters in the pilot and series of the BBC sitcom Rab C Nesbitt.
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In 1949, Russell Hunter married Marjorie Thomson and had two daughters.
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Russell Hunter died aged 79 at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital of lung cancer.