Ricky Callan is one of Scotland's best known character actors. A familiar face on television, he has a long list of credits to his name including The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star

The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star

The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star was a successful British comedy series, which aired on Channel 4 in 1998.It was a six-part satirical take on the music industry, written by BAFTA award-winner Bryan Elsley...

, Taggart

Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...

, Monarch Of The Glen, Rebus

Rebus

A rebus is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. It was a favourite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames, for example in its basic form 3 salmon fish to denote the name "Salmon"...

 and Velvet Soup. He Is also a stand up comedian and familiar voice on radio.

In 2001 He wrote the screenplay for the short film Pork Chop

Pork chop

A pork chop is a cut of pork cut perpendicularly to the spine of the pig and usually containing a rib or part of a vertebra, served as an individual portion.-Variations:...

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Most recently he starred in the film Joe Smeal's Wheels directed by Leon the Pig Farmer

Leon the Pig Farmer

Leon the Pig Farmer is a 1993 comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire...

 screenwriter Michael Normand

Michael Normand

Michael Normand is a filmmaker from Glasgow, Scotland. He co-wrote, with Gary Sinyor, the 1992 film, "Leon the Pig Farmer." He also wrote and co-directed the 1996 film, "Dirty Laundry."-References:...

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