Tam Dean Burn

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Tam Dean Burn
Born1958 (age 6566)
Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Alma mater Queen Margaret University
OccupationActor
Political party Communist Party of Great Britain

Tam Dean Burn (born 1958 in Leith, Scotland) is a Scottish actor who has played a wide range of roles on stage and screen. On television this includes multiple roles on long-running detective series Taggart , youth sci-fi thriller Life Force , [1] and on BBC Scotland's soap opera River City , where he played gangster Thomas McCabe. [2] Burn currently performs as a featured lead singer alongside Scars.

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Education and family

He trained in acting at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is the brother of drummer Russell Burn, of Edinburgh band The Fire Engines. Both played together in the band The Dirty Reds.

Politics

In the 1992 General Election, he contested the Glasgow Central seat, standing for the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC). He received 106 votes, 0.4% of all votes cast, and finished last. [3] [4]

Acting career

His theatrical roles include being the narrator of the 2009 play Year of the Horse, about artist Harry Horse. [5] He starred on stage in Irvine Welsh's Headspace, in 1997. [6] In 2016 he played Captain Edgar in August Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.[ citation needed ] In 2018 he narrated Tommy Smith's jazz version of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofieff with text specially adapted by Liz Lochhead. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra recorded the piece live on 24 February 2018 at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 2006, Burn has been the authentic 'Leither' voice narrating the audiobook versions of 18 of Irvine Welsh’s books.

Charity work

He is also involved in work for young people. In 2014, he toured Scotland by bicycle, reading all 195 of Julia Donaldson's stories to children. [7] [8] He has campaigned to protect the Children's Wood in Kelvinside, Glasgow from property developers. [9]

2019 stabbing

In March 2019, Burn was stabbed during an assault after appearing at an event at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. [10]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 Local Hero Roddy
19953The Elder
1996 The Leading Man Henry
1998 The Acid House Alec(segment "A Soft Touch")
1999 Miss Julie Servant
1999Mauvaise PasseNaked Husband
2002 Doctor Sleep Gas Man
2003 Skagerrak Dr. Meisling
2003 Young Adam Black Street Barman
2011 Perfect Sense Husband at Grave
2011 War Horse Medic in Trench
2012 Shell Trucker
2012 Riot on Redchurch Street Jerry Graff
2013City of TalesThe Officer
2016Moon DogsDavey
2018 Outlaw King John Macdougall of Argyll
2018 Only You Mike
2019 The Victim TV series

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