Paul William Riley is a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and

comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

. He is best known for his role as

Winston Ingram ''Still Game'' is a Scottish sitcom series, following the lives of a group of pensioners who live in Craiglang, a fictional area of Glasgow.

in the Scottish

sitcom A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...

, ''

Still Game ''Still Game'' is a Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who played the lead characters, Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade, two Glaswegian pensioners. The characte ...

''. Previously he had worked on '' Chewin' the Fat'', the

sketch show Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...

from which ''Still Game'' was spun-off. Riley also starred in, wrote and directed ''

Dear Green Place ''Dear Green Place'' is a Scottish comedy programme set in a park in central Glasgow. It first aired on 19 October 2007 on BBC One Scotland. The second series finished airing on 5 December 2008. The show was created by comedy actor Paul Riley, ...

'', again with Ford Kiernan from ''Still Game''.

Awards

On 1 November 2006, it was announced that Riley had been nominated for a

BAFTA Scotland BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1986, the branch holds two annual awards ceremonies recognising the achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film, televi ...

award for his role as pensioner Winston Ingram in ''

''. He was up against Barry Jones and Stuart McLeod in their show, ''Tricks from the Bible''. On 12 November, Riley won the award, also picking up the "Best Entertainment" category as well for ''Dear Green Place''.

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* Living people Scottish male comedians Scottish male television actors Comedians from Glasgow Male actors from Glasgow 1962 births {{Scotland-actor-stub