User:Marilyn Wilson/Simon Lack

Simon Lack was the stage name of Alexander McAlpine, born on 19 Dec 1915 in Cleland, Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the youngest child and only son of Alexander McAlpine (senior) and Euphemia Ritchie. The family moved to Tollcross, in Glasgow, around 1918. In a long acting career, perhaps his best known film was The Proud Valley, starring Paul Robeson; fittingly, as his own father, a qualified stonemason and dedicated nurseryman, often worked down the mines when times were hard. He died on 8 Aug 1980 in London, England.