Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Dugald Bruce Lockhart is an Anglo-Scottish stage and screen actor, director and writer.

Background and education

A member of the Bruce Lockhart family, Lockhart was born in Fiji in 1968, the son of James Robert Bruce Lockhart (1941–2018), a diplomat, spy, artist, and author, and Felicity A. Smith. His grandfather, J. M. Bruce Lockhart, was an intelligence officer. His great-grandfather, J. H. Bruce Lockhart, and his great-uncles Rab Bruce Lockhart, were all public school headmasters who played rugby union for Scotland. Another forebear, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, was an author and adventurer. His late uncle Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, was a politician.

Dugald Bruce Lockhart was educated at Sedbergh School and the University of St Andrews, then trained for a career in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

Lockhart began as a stage actor, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and others. Since 1998, he has acted mostly with Propeller, an all-male theatre company of which he is now an associate director. He is also an associate of the Teatre Akadèmia Theatre Company in Barcelona and has directed ''Romeo and Juliet'' and ''As You Like It'' in Catalan, using new translations by Miquel Desclot. He teaches and directs at drama schools in London, including the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, LAMDA, and the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

He played David Cameron in ''The Three Lions'', a comedy written by William Gaminara, a role for which he was nominated as best actor by ''The Stage'' at the Edinburgh Festival of 2013. Lockhart returned to the role when the play was later staged at the St James Theatre, London, in 2015, and stayed with the production when it moved on to the Liverpool Playhouse.Catherine Jones
Liverpool Playhouse date for World Cup play The Three Lions / Actor Dugald Bruce-Lockhart on playing David Cameron in stage comedy
dated 5 March 2015 in ''Liverpool Echo''

He is the author of a handbook for actors called ''Heavy Pencil'', and of a thriller, ''The Lizard'', published in 2020.

Family

Dugald Bruce-Lockhart is married to the actress Penelope Rawlins. They have a son, born in May 2015, and a daughter, born in 2019.

Filmography

*''Case Histories'' – Brian Jackson
*''Walter's War'' – Captain Coombes
*''High Plains Invaders'' – Cornelius Harrington
*'' Hotel Babylon'' – Tennyson
*''Foyle's War'' – Ralph Hammond (A War of Nerves, 2004)
*''The Bill'' – Stewart Ryan
*''Trust'' – Dougie Baker
*''Plunge: The Movie'' – Chas
*''Midsomer Murders'' – Greg Tutt (Ring Out Your Dead, 2002)
*''Simon: An English Legionnaire'' (2002) – Corporal Muller
*''Rockface'' – Gavin (episode #1.2, 2002)
*''Hart's War'' (2002) – Capt. Lutz
*''Brookside'' – Mark Wilcox (1999–2000)
*'' Wycliffe'' – P.C. Greener
*'' Bugs'' – Alex

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1968 births
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
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English male television actors
Scottish male television actors
Living people
Actors educated at Sedbergh School
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors