Andrew Keir

Birth Name:

Andrew Buggy

Birth Place:

Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack

Worked to help promote community theatre in Scotland
Worked in the Lanarkshire coalfields as a youth until his friend's introduction to a local dramatic society led to an invitation from Tyrone Guthrie to join the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre Company
Quote: "[on his early career] "I soaked it up like a sponge, cutting my teeth on four new plays per year․ Novices don't have that sort of opportunity nowadays․""
Quote: "[on mining] "Those were the days, when you left school at 14 and followed your father 'doon the pit․'""
Specialized in playing frank, sometimes taciturn, authority figures
Worked in theatre with director Tyrone Guthrie for a number of years
In order to leave his job as a minor during World War II and switch to acting professionally, he had to obtain a medical diagnosis of pneumoconiosis

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