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Robert Trotter - Teacher - Actor - Director & Photographer was born in Dumbarton in 1930 and has been active in the Scottish Arts since the 1960s. After completing National Service in the 1950s he trained as a teacher; becoming a Lecturer in Drama at Glasgow University in 1965. He worked continuously on stage, radio and television from that point on. His work reaching a worldwide audience when he joined the cast of the long-running TV drama Take the High Road in 1982. Since the 1990s he has resumed and intensified a life-long interest in photography. In 2001 he published "Sing the City" a collection of his own photography of Glasgow and New York. The Glasgow School of Art has some 300 of his photos of Glasgow and New York within their archive.

Theatre
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs Traverse Theatre Pitlochry Festival Theatre Dundee Repertory Company  Perth Repertory Theatre   Bedlam Theatre  Theatremakers,Stirling  Stage Company   Arts Theatre, Glasgow University 
 *  Bright Scene Fading  - Tom Gallacher
 * The Gay Gorbals  - Hector MacMillan
 * Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - Tom Stoppard
 *  A Midsummer Night's Dream  - Shakespeare
 * Hobson's Choice  Example
 * Babes in the Wood  - James Bridie
 * The Thrie Estates - Sir David Lindsay
 *  The Deep Blue Sea - Rattigan
 * The Winslow Boy  - Rattigan
 * Getting On - Alan Bennett
 * Travesties  - Tom Stoppard
 * A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee
 * Wise Child  - Simon Gray
 * I Have Been Here Before J.B. Priestly
 * The Boy Friend - Sandy Wilson
 *  What Every Woman Knows - J.M. Barrie
 * The Odd Couple  - Neil Simon
 * The Government Inspector  - Gogol
 * She Stoops to Conquer  - Goldsmith
 * The Jungle Book  - Kipling
 * ''Waiting for Godot'
 * The Fall of Kelvin Walker  - Alasdair Gray
 * The Restoration of Arnold McMillan - David Story
 * The Changeling  - Middletone & Rowley
 * The Forrigan Reel  - James Bridie
 * The Man of Mode  - Etherege
 * The Entertainer  - Osborne
 * Entertaining Mr Sloane  - Orton
 * The Cocktail Party  - Eliot
 * The Shadow of a Gunman  - O'Casey
 * Play with a Tiger  - Doris Lessing
 * Uncle Vanya  - Chekhov

Selected filmography

 * Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (BBC TV)- (dir Moira Armstrong)
 * Annals of the Parish BBC TV - (dir. Tom Cotter
 * The Chiel Amang Us (BBC) - (dir. Tom Cotter & Gordon Menzies)
 * The Haggard Falcon (BBC) - (dir. Mike Vardy
 * The Omega Factor (BBC) - (dir. George Gallaccio)
 * Burgh Life (BBC) - Dir. Tom Cotter)
 * Badger by Owl Light (BBC) - (dir. To McIntosh)


 * The Fetch Scottish Television -(dir.Iain Dalgleish)
 * City Sugar (STV) - (dir. Mike Vardy)
 * ''Take the High Road (STV) 1982 - 1995

Selected Radio

 * The Doctor's Dilemma (Shaw) - dir. John Tydeman
 * The Knocker (Alan Melville) - dir. John Tydeman
 * The Idiot (Doestoevsky) - dir. Kay Patrick
 * The Beautiful Garden - dir Jane Morgan
 * Peer Gynt (Ibsen) dir. Jane Morgan
 * For the Whale - dir. John Theocharis
 * Nunaga - dir. John Theocharis
 * Tusitala and Swift Cloud - dir. Christopher Venning
 * Hatter's Castle (Cronin) - dir. Stewart Conn
 * They've taken the Swings Away ( Eric MacDonald)- dir. Stewart Conn
 * Putting it Right (Eric MacDonald) - dir. Stewart Conn
 * Annie S. Swan, The People's Friend - dir. Marilyn Imrie
 *  The Bride of Lammermoor (Scott)
 * Strathinver (Robin Nell) Winner of Sony AWard 1985 - dir. John Arnott
 * The Bell in the Tree (Story of Glasgow) - dir. Hamish Wilson
 * The Horror at Bly (As Henry James) - dir. Maurice Leitch
 * Eden Scenes on Chrystal Jed (As Robert Burns) dir. Alec Reid
 * Deacon Brodie dir. Hamish Wilson

Photography
"Sing the City" published in 2001 is a collection of his own photographs. These were taken in Glasgow and New York between 1995 and 1999 depicting the people of both cities. This publication resulted in an exhibition at the Glasgow School or Art in 2004 and the acquisition of much of his work by the Scottish National Photography Collection held within the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

External References

 * Robert Trotter at the Internet Movie Database IMDb''[]
 * University of Glasgow Scottish Theatre Archive []
 * Sing the City []
 *  Most Popular People Born in Dumbarton []
 * Sing the City []
 *  Most Popular People Born in Dumbarton []

.EOE Bobcat21l 07:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)