Angus Lennie
| Angus Lennie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Angus Wilson Lennie 18 April 1930 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Died | 14 September 2014 (aged 84) London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1944–2003 |
Angus Wilson Lennie (18 April 1930 – 14 September 2014) was a Scottish film and theatre character actor, with a career spanning 50 years. He played the character of Archibald Ives in The Great Escape, and Shughie McFee in the popular television soap opera Crossroads.
Lennie was born and raised in Scotland's second city, Glasgow, and received his formal education at the Eastbank Academy in the city. During his childhood he was a member of the 94th Glasgow (1st Shettleston) Company of Scotland's Boys' Brigade.
He started his career in show-business at the age of 14 whilst engaged in an apprenticeship as a stockbroker's clerk, and appeared whilst still a teenager in song and dance acts at the Glasgow Metropole, his diminutive size at 5ft 1" aiding his nimbleness in performance. After briefly trying stand-up comedy on Scotland's variety circuit post World War 2, and service with His Majesty's Armed Forces as a National Serviceman, after a period performing in song & dance, and comedy routines, in the English seaside towns along the South-East coast, he decided to become an actor, and took up a trainee position with the Perth Repertory Company in his early his twenties, and went on to work with repertory companies in Oxford and Birmingham.
He remains well known for his long running role as cook Shughie McFee in the soap opera Crossroads, which he played from 1974 to 1981. His earliest major role was as Davie "Sunny Jim" Green in BBC Scotland's comedy series, Para Handy - Master Mariner in 1959-60. Other TV credits include: Target Luna, The Saint (The Fellow Traveller), Doctor Who (in the serials The Ice Warriors and Terror of the Zygons), The Borderers, Z Cars, Rumpole of the Bailey, Lovejoy, The Onedin Line, All Night Long, Keeping Up Appearances and Monarch of the Glen.
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