Robert Trotter

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Robert Trotter

Trotter as Mr. Murdoch in Take the High Road
Born (1930-03-07)7 March 1930
Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
Died 12 August 2013(2013-08-12) (aged 83)
Occupation Actor, director. and photographer
Known for Take the High Road

Robert Trotter (7 March 1930 – 12 August 2013)[1] was a Scottish actor, director, photographer, and director.

Biography

Trotter was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1930. After completing National Service in the 1950s he became a teacher of English at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow. Following his departure from the academy, he was a lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University from 1964 to 1971.[2][3]

Trotter played an active role in the Scottish arts in the 1960s and continued to work on stage, radio, and television. His work reached a worldwide audience when he joined the cast of the long-running TV drama Take the High Road in 1982.

In the 1990s, he began to pursue his lifelong interest in photography again, and published a collection of photography of Glasgow and New York called "Sing the City" in 2001. The Glasgow School of Art has 300 of his photos in their archive.

Theatre

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs,London

  • Bright Scene Fading - Tom Gallacher

King's Head Theatre Club,London

  • Recital - Tom Gallacher

Traverse Theatre,Edinburgh

  • The Gay Gorbals - Hector MacMillan [4]
  • 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 on stage with Barbara Horne in Something in it for Cordelia at Dundee Repertory

Dundee Repertory Company

  • The Deep Blue Sea - Rattigan
  • The Winslow Boy - Rattigan
  • Getting On - Alan Bennett
  • Travesties - Tom Stoppard [5]
  • 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

Bedlam Theatre

  • The Jungle Book - Kipling/Stephen MacDonald
Robert as Uncle Vanya with Deirdre Murray on stage at The Arts Theatre, Glasgow

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 [6]

Plays Directed include

  • 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)[7]
  • 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 (BBC TV)- (dir Moira Armstrong)
  • Annals of the Parish BBC TV - (dir. Tom Cotter
  • The Chiel Amang Us (BBC) - (dir. Tom Cotter & Gordon Menzies)
  • The Haggard Falcon (BBC) - (dir. Mike Vardy
  • The Omega Factor (BBC) - (dir. George Gallaccio)
  • Burgh Life (BBC) - Dir. Tom Cotter)
  • Badger by Owl Light (BBC) - (dir. Bob McIntosh)
  • The Fetch Scottish Television -(dir.Iain Dalgleish)
  • City Sugar (STV) - (dir. Mike Vardy)
  • Take the High Road (STV) 1982 - 1995

Selected radio

Sing the City Exhibition Glasgow 2004
  • The Doctor's Dilemma (Shaw) - dir. John Tydeman
  • 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) Winner of Sony Award 1985 - dir. John Arnott
  • 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 his own photographs. These were taken in Glasgow and New York between 1995 and 1999 depicting the people of both cities. This publication resulted in an exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art in 2004 [8] and the acquisition of much of his work by them and the Scottish National Photography Collection held within the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

References

  1. ↑ Obituary: Robert Trotter, actor, director and photographer - Obituaries - The Scotsman
  2. ↑ University of Glasgow Scottish Theatre Archive.
  3. ↑ Scottish Theatre Archives
  4. ↑ Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1976, Traverse Theatre
  5. ↑ Travesties, Dundee Rep
  6. ↑ Uncle Vanya, Glasgow Herald, February 24, 1972
  7. ↑ Glasgow Herald Review, June 3, 1982
  8. ↑ Exhibition of Photographs at Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow Evening Times 20 July 2004

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