Creator / Stuart McGugan

Best described as a great big butch hairy Scottish haggis.

Stuart McGugan, (2 March 1944), is a Scottish actor best known for playing Gunner Mackintosh in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.

His first televised acting role came in 1966, in an episode of This Man Craig. The rest of The '60s for McGugan only had one small role in an episode of The Revenue Men. The '70s picked up his career, with McGugan being cast as Gunner Mackintosh in It Ain't Half Hot, Mum in 1974 and starting a ten-year career as a Play School presenter in 1975.

More big roles followed in The '80s, including Bomba MacAteer in Tutti Frutti and Gordon Stewart in Wish Me Luck. At the start of The '90s, Croft and Perry (who had co-written Half Hot, Mum) cast him in five episodes of their newest series, You Rang, M'Lord?, as Jock MacGregor. He also appeared in The Chief as Detective Chief Superintendent Sean McCloud and in Hamish Macbeth as Barney Meldon.

After the '90s, McGugan was more often cast in smaller roles, making guest appearances in Murphy's Law, Heartbeat, CASUAL+Y, Doctors, Silent Witness, and Benidorm.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Films

• Trainspotting (1996) — Taxi Driver (Uncredited Role)

Series

• It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, 56 episodes (1974-81) — Gunner "Atlas" Mackintosh
• The Sweeney, episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill!" (1975) — Hicks
• Dad's Army, episode "Number Engaged" (1977) — Scottish Sergeant
• Sykes, episode "Six Million Dollar Sykes" (1979) — Jack
• Tutti Frutti, 6 episodes^{show list} "The Boy Can't Help It", "On the Road Again", "Gin a Body, Dig a Body", "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O", "Love Hurts", "A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop a Wop-Bam Boom" (1987) — Bomba MacAteer
• Taggart, 3 episodes^{show list} "Dead Giveaway Part One", "Dead Giveaway Part Two", "Dead Giveaway Part Three" (1988) — Walter Fairley
• Wish Me Luck, 11 episodes (1989-90) — Gordon Stewart
• You Rang, M'Lord?, 5 episodes^{show list} "Labour or Love", "Trouble at Mill", "Meet the Workers", "Fall of the House of Meldrum", "Well, There You Are Then...!" (1990-93) — Jock MacGregor
• The Bill, 5 episodes:
  • "Favours" (1991) — Kemble
  • "Value for Money" (1995) — Frank Knox
  • "Target Man" (1998) — McEwan
  • 2 episodes^{show list} "The Party is Over", "The Last Stop" (2007) — Bruce Burns
• The Chief, 13 episodes (1992-94) — Detective Chief Superintendent Sean McCloud
• Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster, 5 episodes^{show list} "Something Sinister...", "The Return of the Vixen", "Operation Rescue", "Monsters Galore!", "Countdown" (1993) — Robert
• Hamish Macbeth, 19 episodes (1995-97) — Barney Meldon
• Dalziel and Pascoe, episode "Exit Lines" (1997) — Inspector Cruickshank
• Mike & Angelo, 2 episodes^{show list} "The Merry Widow", "Overnight Frost" (1999-2000) — Derek Frost
• Murphy's Law, episode "Pilot" (2001) — Shopkeeper
• Heartbeat, episode "Closing the Book" (2002) — Hemmings
• CASUAL+Y, episode "Taking It All Back to the Streets" (2002) — Martin Davidson
• Doctors, 2 episodes:
  • "Zero Tolerance" (2003) — Pete Cameron
  • "Miss Pringle Investigates" (2010) — Harry McCree
• Silent Witness, episode "Answering Fire: Part 1" (2003) — George Franks
• Benidorm, 1 episode (2009) — Wink McAndrew

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