Dugald Bruce Lockhart
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Dugald Bruce Lockhart is an Anglo
-Scottish
actor
.
, and his great-uncles, Rab Bruce Lockhart and Logie Bruce Lockhart
were all public school headmasters and all played rugby union
for Scotland. Another forebear, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, was an author and adventurer. His uncle Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
was a politician.
Dugald Bruce Lockhart trained for a career in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
, then worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company
. He spent a few years working with Propeller
, an all-male theatre company. He has also appeared in The Deep Blue Sea as Freddie Paige. He has recently directed the graduating students on the BA (Hons) Acting course at Italia Conti in their production of Terence Rattigan's After The Dance.Most recently he played the lead role of Jack in The Cage (a play which he wrote and produced with his production company BBL Productions and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, directed by Richard Baron
) at the Edinburgh Festival, Richard Hannay in the touring version of 39 Steps
and (returning to Propellor) Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Sir Radcliffe in Richard III.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
-Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Background and education
Dugald Bruce Lockhart was born in 1968. His great-grandfather, J.H. Bruce LockhartJohn Bruce-Lockhart
John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...
, and his great-uncles, Rab Bruce Lockhart and Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart MA , is a British writer and journalist, formerly a Scottish international rugby union footballer and headmaster of Gresham's School.-Background:...
were all public school headmasters and all played rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
for Scotland. Another forebear, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, was an author and adventurer. His uncle Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart
Alexander John Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, OBE , commonly known as Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, was a British Conservative politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was the leader of Kent County Council and then Chairman of the Local Government Association...
was a politician.
Dugald Bruce Lockhart trained for a career in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
, then worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
. He spent a few years working with Propeller
Propeller (theatre company)
Propeller is a theatre company which presents the plays of William Shakespeare in the UK and around the world. The director is Edward Hall, and the casts are exclusively male actors.-Background:...
, an all-male theatre company. He has also appeared in The Deep Blue Sea as Freddie Paige. He has recently directed the graduating students on the BA (Hons) Acting course at Italia Conti in their production of Terence Rattigan's After The Dance.Most recently he played the lead role of Jack in The Cage (a play which he wrote and produced with his production company BBL Productions and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, directed by Richard Baron
Richard Baron
Richard Baron is a philosopher living in London. He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and at Selwyn College, Cambridge.His first book, Projects and Values, argues for a foundationalist virtue ethic, against the background of a structured approach to the cultural relativity of value-concepts...
) at the Edinburgh Festival, Richard Hannay in the touring version of 39 Steps
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh...
and (returning to Propellor) Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Sir Radcliffe in Richard III.
Filmography
- Hotel BabylonHotel BabylonHotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...
- Tennyson (2006) - Foyle's WarFoyle's WarFoyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
- Ralph Hammond (A War of Nerves, 2004) - The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
- Stewart Ryan (2003) - Trust - Dougie Baker (2003)
- Plunge: The Movie - Chas (2003)
- Midsomer MurdersMidsomer MurdersMidsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
- Greg Tutt (Ring Out Your Dead, 2002) - Simon: An English Legionnaire (2002) - Corporal Muller
- Rockface - Gavin (episode #1.2, 2002)
- Hart's WarHart's WarHart's War is a 2002 film about a World War II prisoner of war based on the novel by John Katzenbach starring Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Marcel Iureş...
(2002) - Captain Lutz - BrooksideBrooksideBrookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...
- Mark Wilcox (1999–2000) - WycliffeWycliffe-People:*Wycliffe Grousbeck, CEO, Governor, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics basketball team*Wycliffe Bubba Morton , American Major League Baseball player*Wycliffe Juma Oluoch , Kenyan footballer*Wycliffe Oparanya, Kenyan politician...
(1997) - P.C. Greener - BugsBugs (TV series)Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers...
- Alex (1996)