Who was the scots actor who appeared in TVs MINDER?
The answer is Iain Cuthbertson. Born in Glasgow, the son of David Cuthbertson, a leading biochemist, he went to school at Glasgow academy and Aberdeen grammar and read modern languages at Aberdeen University. Much later, he served as its rector, from 1975 to 1978. After national service as an officer in the Black Watch, he began acting and became a regular at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, where he impressed as Othello (1959) and as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He returned to the theatre as general manager from 1962 to 1965. Later, he was associate director at the Royal Court in London, directing the comedian Max Wall in a 1966 production of Alfred Jarry’s absurdist play Ubu Roi. He also worked for BBC radio as a reporter. In the 1980s, a press advertisement for Scotch whisky contrasted a picture of the young Cuthbertson standing at a microphone with his present-day self, under the strapline “improved with age”. His first television appearance was in a BBC programme about
