John Cairney

John Cairney (born 16 February 1930) is a Scottish film and television actor who is well known to audiences in Scotland and internationally through his one-man shows on Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Service, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William McGonagall.

He has worked as an actor, recitalist, lecturer, director and theatre consultant. He is also a published author and an exhibited painter. Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he was a notable Hamlet at the Citizens' Theatre and a successful Macbeth at the Edinburgh Festival. He was also 'This Man Craig' on television, while his many films include Lucky Jim, A Night to Remember, Operation Bullshine, The Flesh and the Fiends, Victim, Cleopatra and Jason and the Argonauts.

He gained a PhD. from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand and is much in demand internationally as a lecturer, writer and consultant on Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Burns.

Cairney has written books on many famous Scots as well as other books on football, theatre and his native Glasgow, where he now lives with his New Zealand-born wife, actress and scriptwriter Alannah O'Sullivan.

Partial filmography

• Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
• Miracle in Soho (1957)
• Windom's Way (1957)
• Lucky Jim (1957)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• Operation Bullshine (1959)
• The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
• Victim (1961)
• Cleopatra (1963)
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
• The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
• Spaceflight IC-1 (1965)
• A Study in Terror (1965)

External links

• Official website
• John Cairney at the Internet Movie Database
• Bain, Sara (8 May 2009). "Red, Red Rose at the Theatre Royal". Dumfries & Galloway Standard. Retrieved 13 June 2009.