Paul Young

Paul Young

Born: July 3, 1944
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Scottish actor and presenter. Born in Edinburgh on 3rd July 1944 to an actor father, Paul made his debut as a child actor in the 1955 movie Geordie. In 1965, Paul became an off shore pirate radio DJ and and was the first voice heard when Radio Scotland launched, and presented the popular Ceilidh programme of traditional Scottish music. Returning to acting later in the decade, Paul has gone on to appear in numerous plays, films and television dramas. A keen angler, he has presented fishing programmes on Scottish television for many years. The first was Hooked on Scotland for the BBC. This was followed by Hooked on Scottish for ITV and more recently Hooked for the satellite and cable channel Discovery Home and Leisure.

Movies for Paul Young...

Still Game: The Story So Far
Title: Still Game: The Story So Far
Character: Himself / Shug
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and super fans. Including a look at some favourite moments.
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Still Game: Live in Glasgow
Title: Still Game: Live in Glasgow
Character: Shug McLaughlin
Released: November 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are back and reviving their much loved characters Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade for the first time in years! They've not been seen on the small screen since a Hogmanay special in January 2008, but this year sees a full reunion of the original television cast as Jack and Victor are reunited alongside other Still Game favourites Winston, Isa, Tam, Navid, and Bobby.
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One Last Chance
Title: One Last Chance
Character: Mr Clouston
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
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Title: Still Game
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: TV
Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
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Seychelles: Jewels of a Lost Continent
Title: Seychelles: Jewels of a Lost Continent
Character: Narrator
Released: December 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The Seychelle Islands, known for their long stretches of white sand, also provide a home to unusual flora and fauna, including the coco de mer, a tree with the world's largest seeds, giant tortoises inhabiting an ancient volcano and living carpets of silver lizards. This film features contributions from experts who believe these exotic species are evidence that the islands were once part of a primeval super-continent.
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My Fragile Heart
Title: My Fragile Heart
Character: DCI Owen Simmons
Released: September 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was accused of killing Trinas best friend many years ago but was never convicted. Another girl is killed and Bernard is again a suspect. Trina thinks he is innocent but places herself in danger in trying to prove it.
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Complicity
Title: Complicity
Character: Frank
Released: May 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
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My Life So Far
Title: My Life So Far
Character: Doctor Gebbie
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
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Title: The Last Salute
Released: March 15, 1998
Type: TV
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Regeneration
Title: Regeneration
Character: Dr. Brock
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
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Title: The Crow Road
Character: Hamish McHoan
Released: November 4, 1996
Type: TV
History student Prentice returns home to attend his grandmother’s funeral. As the McHoan family gathers together to mark the solemn occasion, old disagreements continue to fester and old acquaintances are renewed. Following the unexpected death of another close relative, Prentice begins to question the past: why did his Uncle Rory suddenly disappear and where did he go? Reading his Uncle Rory’s unpublished novel may provide the answers he is seeking but it also unearths some dark family secrets he didn’t bargain for.
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Margaret's Museum
Title: Margaret's Museum
Character: Doctor 1
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
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Title: The Tales of Para Handy
Character: Andrew Campbell
Released: July 31, 1994
Type: TV
The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It starred Gregor Fisher as Captain Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, Sean Scanlan as first mate Dougie Cameron, Rikki Fulton as engineer Dan Macphail and Andrew Fairlie as Sunny Jim. These four made up the crew of the puffer 'Vital Spark' which was employed by the Campbell Shipping Company, headquartered in Glasgow and run by Andrew Campbell
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Neighbour
Released: December 26, 1990
Type: Movie
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
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Title: No Job for a Lady
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: TV
No Job for a Lady is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 7 February 1990 to 10 February 1992. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, and directed and produced by John Howard Davies. It was made by Thames Television for ITV.
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Leaving
Title: Leaving
Character: Snodgrass
Released: February 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Mr. McNeil
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Facts of Life
Title: Facts of Life
Character: Harry
Released: October 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Edinburgh 1963: Alice is 11 and fascinated by sex. But her mother's involvement with Francois introduces Alice to more facts of life than she had bargained for.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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Title: City Lights
Character: Malky Boyd
Released: October 14, 1986
Type: TV
Hapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.
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The Girl in the Picture
Title: The Girl in the Picture
Character: Smiley
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.
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Brigadista
Title: Brigadista
Released: February 5, 1985
Type: Movie
When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information. Technically, this was the last Play For Today ever made by the BBC.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Taggart
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: TV
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.
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Another Time, Another Place
Title: Another Time, Another Place
Character: Dougal
Released: May 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
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Something's Got to Give
Title: Something's Got to Give
Character: Simon
Released: June 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Six Fifty-Five Special
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 1981
Type: TV
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A Change of Seasons
Title: A Change of Seasons
Character: Disco Deejay
Released: December 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a younger lover of her own.
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S.O.S. Titanic
Title: S.O.S. Titanic
Character: First Officer Joseph Murdoch
Released: February 29, 1980
Type: Movie
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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Death Watch
Title: Death Watch
Character: Police Officer
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Ploughman's Share
Title: Ploughman's Share
Character: Chas Airlie
Released: February 27, 1979
Type: Movie
When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.
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Charades
Title: Charades
Character: Jock
Released: December 13, 1977
Type: Movie
An innocent game during an opulent weekend at a Scottish castle annoys the sinister housekeeper and causes several family skeletons to rattle in their cupboards.
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Willie Rough
Title: Willie Rough
Character: Sam Thomson
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Title: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
Character: John Robb
Released: February 24, 1976
Type: Movie
TV dramatisation of the trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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The Bevellers
Title: The Bevellers
Character: Joe Crosby
Released: November 21, 1974
Type: Movie
An ambitious apprentice glassmaker clashes with his new colleagues in a Glasgow workshop.
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Chato's Land
Title: Chato's Land
Character: Brady Logan
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Title: The Regiment
Released: February 21, 1972
Type: TV
The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.
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Madame Sin
Title: Madame Sin
Character: Naval Driver
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
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Title: Sunset Song
Character: Will Guthrie
Released: March 26, 1971
Type: TV
Chris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes the managing of the farm with her father and her older brother, but the men fall out, leaving Chris and her father to manage it alone. When her father dies, she considers abandoning the farm, but decides to carry on alone. She marries a young farmer, Ewan Tavendale. They have a baby and are happy for the first time, then the First World War breaks out, Ewan enlists and dies in France, and Chris is left once again to carry on with the farm.
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One Day in Irvine
Title: One Day in Irvine
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A Canadian visits the Scottish town of Irvine.
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Submarine X-1
Title: Submarine X-1
Character: Leading Seaman Quentin
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
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A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Title: A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Character: Tom
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
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Let's Be Happy
Title: Let's Be Happy
Character: Page Boy Bobby
Released: May 7, 1957
Type: Movie
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
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Geordie
Title: Geordie
Character: Young Geordie
Released: September 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.