Actor

Alex Norton

42 credited titles on WatchWise

Alex Norton is a Scottish television, film and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as DCI Matt Burke in the STV detective drama series Taggart, and Eric Baird in BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down. He played eleven roles in Bill Douglas' 1986 film Comrades and has starred in the key films of Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero and Comfort and Joy) as well as big Hollywood productions like Braveheart, White Hunter Black Heart and Patriot Games. He was one of the founder members of the 7:84 company, touring Scotland with The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil in the 1970s.

Alex Norton in one minute

Strongest genre

Action

$160M · 100% hit rate

Biggest hit

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

$1.1B

Standout efficiency

4.7x

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$248M

Combined reported budget

$78M

Gross / budget

3.2x

Bankability Index

37 / 100

All figures are associated, not attributed — box-office numbers are sourced from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$, and weighted by billing prominence. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.