Robert Trotter (7 March 1930 – 12 August 2013) was a Scottish actor, director, and photographer.

Biography

Robert Trotter was born in

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, on 7 March 1930. After completing

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in the 1950s, he became an English teacher at

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. Following his departure from the academy, he was a lecturer in drama at

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from 1964 to 1971. Trotter played an active role in the Scottish arts in the 1960s, working on stage, radio, and television. His work reached a worldwide audience when he joined the cast of the long-running TV drama ''

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'' in 1982. In the 1990s, he started to pursue his lifelong interest in photography. In 2001, he published a collection of photographs from Glasgow and

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called ''Sing the City''. The archive at

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contains 300 of his photos, where they are currently on display to the public.

Theatre

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London *'' Bright Scene Fading '' - Tom Gallacher King's Head Theatre Club, London *''Recital'' - Tom Gallacher

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, Edinburgh *''The Gay Gorbals '' - Hector MacMillan *''Every Good Boy Deserves Favour'' - Tom Stoppard Pitlochry Festival Theatre *'' A Midsummer Night's Dream '' - Shakespeare *''Hobson's Choice ''- Harold Brighouse *''Babes in the Wood '' - James Bridie Robert Trotter in Something in it for Cordelia Dundee Rep

Robert Trotter in Something in it for Cordelia Dundee Rep

Dundee Repertory Company *'' The Deep Blue Sea'' - Rattigan *''The Winslow Boy '' - Rattigan *''Getting On'' - Alan Bennett *''Travesties '' - Tom Stoppard *''A Delicate Balance'' - Edward Albee *''Wise Child '' - Simon Gray *''I Have Been Here Before'' - J. B. Priestley *''The Boy Friend'' - Sandy Wilson Perth Repertory Theatre *'' What Every Woman Knows'' - J. M. Barrie *''The Odd Couple '' - Neil Simon *''The Government Inspector '' - Gogol *''She Stoops to Conquer '' - Goldsmith

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*''The Jungle Book '' - Kipling / Stephen MacDonald Robert Trotter with Deirdre Murray in Uncle Vanya1

Theatremakers, Stirling *''Waiting for Godot'' - Samuel Beckett Stage Company (Scotland) *''The Fall of Kelvin Walker '' - Alasdair Gray Arts Theatre, Glasgow University - 1965–1972 *''The Restoration of Arnold McMillan'' - David Storey *''The Changeling '' - Middleton & Rowley *''The Forrigan Reel '' - James Bridie *''The Man of Mode '' - Etherege *''The Entertainer '' - Osborne *''Entertaining Mr Sloane '' - Orton *''The Cocktail Party '' - Eliot *''The Shadow of a Gunman '' - O'Casey *''Play with a Tiger '' - Doris Lessing *''Uncle Vanya '' - Chekhov Selected plays directed *Scottish Theatre Company - ''The Man of the World'' - (Macklin) *Pitlochry Festival Theatre - ''Translations'' - (Brian Friel), ''Deadline'' - (David Huthison) *Dundee Repertory Theatre - ''Gigi'' - (Colette/Loos), ''Too true to be Good'' - (Shaw), ''The Father'' - (Strindberg), ''Last of the Red Hot Lovers'' - (Neil Simon), ''Sleuth'' - (Schaffer) *Tron Theatre, Glasgow - ''Josef and Maria'' - (Peter Turrini) *Arts Theatre, Glasgow University - ''Tango''- (Mrozek), ''Shelley'' - (Ann Jellicoe), ''Macbeth'' and New Plays by Eric MacDonald and Joan Ure

Selected filmography

*''Clay, Smeddum and Greenden'' (

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) - (dir. Moira Armstrong) *''Annals of the Parish'' (BBC) - (dir. Tom Cotter) *''The Chiel Amang Us'' (BBC) - (dir. Tom Cotter & Gordon Menzies) *''The Haggard Falcon'' (BBC) - (dir. Mike Vardy) *''

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'' (BBC) - (dir. George Gallaccio) *''Burgh Life'' (BBC) - (dir. Tom Cotter) *''Badger by Owl Light'' (BBC) - (dir. Bob McIntosh) *''The Fetch''

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- (dir. Iain Dalgleish) *''City Sugar'' (STV) - (dir. Mike Vardy) *''

'' (STV) (1982–1995)

Selected radio

*''The Doctor's Dilemma'' - (Shaw) - dir.

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*''The Knocker'' - (Alan Melville) - dir. John Tydeman *''The Idiot'' - (Doestoevsky) - dir. Kay Patrick *''The Beautiful Garden'' - dir. Jane Morgan *''Peer Gynt'' - (Ibsen) dir. Jane Morgan *''For the Whale'' - dir. John Theocharis *''Nunaga'' - dir. John Theocharis *''Tusitala and Swift Cloud'' - dir. Christopher Venning *''Hatter's Castle'' (Cronin) - dir. Stewart Conn *''They've taken the Swings Away'' (Eric MacDonald)- dir. Stewart Conn *''Putting it Right'' - (Eric MacDonald) - dir. Stewart Conn *''Annie S. Swan, The People's Friend'' - dir. Marilyn Imrie *'' The Bride of Lammermoor'' - (Scott) - dir. Marilyn Imrie *''Strathinver'' - (Robin Bell) - dir. John Arnott - Winner of Sony Award 1985 *''The Bell in the Tree'' - (Story of Glasgow) - dir. Hamish Wilson *''The Horror at Bly'' - (as Henry James) - dir. Maurice Leitch *''Eden Scenes on Chrystal Jed'' - (as Robert Burns) - dir. Alec Reid *''Deacon Brodie'' - dir. Hamish Wilson * Audio Books - Scottish and English Classics published by Schiltron and Canongate Books

Photography

''Sing the City'', published in 2001, is a collection of Trotter's photographs. They were taken in

and

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between 1995 and 1999 and depict the people of both cities. This publication resulted in an exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art in 2004.Exhibition of Photographs at Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow Evening Times 20 July 2004 and the acquisition of much of his work by them and the Scottish National Photography Collection held within the

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in Edinburgh. *

References

External links

*
University of Glasgow Scottish Theatre Archive

''Sing the City''

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