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Tony Roper, the marvellously versatile actor, who has given Scotland everything from Jamesie in Rab C to the wonder of The Steamie. They are joined at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life ...
Tony Roper seemed destined to drive a race car. His dad, Dean Roper, was a professional driver and finished 15th in the 1983 Daytona 500. Uncle Dale Roper was a hobby racer on the local circuit.
EVEN at the age of 72, the Rab C Nesbitt star admits he has had to 'grow up' to deal with the diagnosis after choosing football over treatment resulted in a rollicking from partner, Isobel.
The Artful Codgers runs from March 30 until June 9 and features the works of award-winning artist Jim Scullion alongside acclaimed actor and director Tony Roper and Scottish football legend, ex ...
AT THE start of the 1980s, Tony Roper sat down to write his first play, about shipyard workers. A Scottish theatre he diplomatically declines to name had commissioned him, a labourer-turned-actor ...
Tony Roper’s simple play set in a wash house on Hogmanay, The Steamie, ... Having witnessed the record-breaking success of Still Game Live, actor and writer Roper, 78, ...
Oregon native Cole Escola made history June 8 at the 78th annual Tony Awards as the first openly nonbinary person to win best leading actor in a play. Escola, who uses they/them pronouns, stars in ...
SUSIE Roper, the woman who inspired The Steamie, one of the biggest successes on the Scottish stage, has died. The great, great grandmother and mother of Tony Roper, the actor and writer, was 92.
TONY Roper was given the ugly truth by Gregor Fisher when his Rab C Nesbitt pal asked him to appear in panto. The actor, who played lothario Jamesie Cotter in the long-running BBC comedy, will star… ...
News; Scottish News; Rab C Nesbitt; Legendary Scots actor Tony Roper: I only faced up to cancer after rocket from wife EVEN at the age of 72, the Rab C Nesbitt star admits he has had to 'grow up ...