Friday, April 17, 2026

RIP Alexander Morton

 


Scottish radio, TV and film actor Alexander Morton died in the U.K. on April 15th in Bath, Somerset, England. He was 81. Born in Glasgow on March 24, 1945. Morton began working in the 1970s in London and Scotland and he built a long and varied career on stage and screen. He made an impact as the villain Andy Semple in the Scottish Television soap opera ‘Take the High Road’, a part he played for 14 years between 1980 and 1994. His stage roles included Macbeth, Robert Burns and William Wallace. Morton appeared in two episodes of the Canadian, Scottish TV series “The Campbells” in 1987 and 1988 once as a cellmate and the other as Thomas.

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