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Name
Robert Trotter
Died
August 12, 2013
Known for
Take the High Road
Born
7 March 1930 (
1930-03-07
)
Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
Occupation
Actor, director, and photographer
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Robert Trotter (7 March 1930 – 12 August 2013) was a Scottish actor, director, and photographer.
Robert Trotter was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, on 7 March 1930. After completing national service in the 1950s, he became an English teacher at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow. Following his departure from the academy, he was a lecturer in drama at Glasgow University 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 Take the High Road 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 New York called Sing the City. The archive at Glasgow School of Art 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
Traverse Theatre, 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
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
Bedlam Theatre
The Jungle Book - Kipling / Stephen MacDonald
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)
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 radio
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) - 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 Glasgow and New York City 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. 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.
Trotter, Robert (2001). Sing the City. ISBN 978-0954093006.
Filmography
Actor
1982
Take the High Road (TV Series) as
Mr. Murdoch / Obadiah Arthur Murdoch / Mr Murdoch / ...
1988
Children of Wax: A Folktale from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
1982
Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) as
Dr. Jordan
- Episode #1.3 (1982) - Dr. Jordan
- Episode #1.2 (1982) - Dr. Jordan
1980
Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) as
Mr. Dixon
- The Sandyford Place Mystery (1980) - Mr. Dixon
1979
The Omega Factor (TV Series) as
Dr. Nelson
- St. Anthony's Fire (1979) - Dr. Nelson
1978
The Sunday Drama (TV Series) as
Johnson
- City Sugar (1978) - Johnson
1977
The Mackinnons (TV Series) as
William Campbell
- In the Public Interest (1977) - William Campbell
1976
The Flight of the Heron (TV Series) as
Army surgeon
- Episode #1.5 (1976) - Army surgeon
1976
Play for Today (TV Series) as
Will Menzies
- Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976) - Will Menzies
1974
The Haggard Falcon (TV Series) as
Archie
- The Frog (1974) - Archie
Self
1976
Network (TV Series) as
Self - Presenter
- The Chiel Amang Us: Robert Burns (1977) - Self - Presenter
