David Ashton (actor)
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David Ashton is a Scottish character actor
who played Dr McDuff in the Granada Television
Series Brass
and Major Roddy Maclean in the Scottish television series Hamish Macbeth
in the 1990s.
He is the creator of the BBC Radio 4 drama series "McLevy", and author of fictional books continuing the stories.
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
who played Dr McDuff in the Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
Series Brass
Brass (TV series)
Brass was a British television Comedy-Drama, made by Granada Television for ITV.Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty...
and Major Roddy Maclean in the Scottish television series Hamish Macbeth
Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
Hamish Macbeth is a television series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton . The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the north coast of Scotland. The titular...
in the 1990s.
He is the creator of the BBC Radio 4 drama series "McLevy", and author of fictional books continuing the stories.