Artist, author . . .actor. Surprise new role for Alasdair Gray Celebrated Scots polymath puts down pen and brush to play aristocrat in a short film about the love life of Sir Edwin Landseer, the Victorian painter of Monarch Of The Glen

The Sunday Herald | June 1, 2008| | Copyright

HE is famous for painting church murals and writing one of the most celebrated post-modern novels.

Now Alasdair Gray has added another string to his creative bow after revealing details of his acting role in a new Scottish film.

Gray told the Sunday Herald that he had spent the last week playing an aristocrat in a short piece about wildlife painter Sir Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria's favourite artist.

The Bedfords - a 15minute film directed by fellow artist Henry Coombes - looks at the Monarch Of The Glen painter's romance with the Duchess of Bedford after he is invited to her Highland home ...

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