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John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair

  • Scottish
  • Actor

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Blu-ray: Gregory's Girl

Bill Forsyth's peerless romantic comedy returns.

Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, 26th September 2023

Gregory's Girl: 'The affection for it overwhelms me'

Hardly a day goes by without somebody asking Clare Grogan to quote a line from Gregory's Girl, the teenage romantic comedy set in a Scottish new town which became an unlikely hit when it was released 40 years ago this week.

Steven Brocklehurst, BBC, 24th April 2021

Gregory's Girl 40th anniversary

As we mark the 40-year anniversary of the Cumbernauld cinematic sensation, I look at how I fell in love with the awkward, clumsy Gregory in a modern world where boys take themselves far too seriously, writes Hannah Brown.

Hannah Gordon, The Scotsman, 23rd April 2021

Scotland's funniest 60 people

As the Glasgow International Comedy Festival prepares to launch with a gaggle of giggles later this month, we count down Scotland's funniest 60 people.

The Herald, 3rd March 2019

Details revealed about new BBC comedy Ill Behaviour

Details have been revealed about Ill Behaviour, the new comedy drama by Sam Bain about a man with cancer.

British Comedy Guide, 16th February 2017

Gregory's Girl - 35 years on

A salute to 1981's Gregory's Girl, starring John Gordon Sinclair and Claire Grogan...

Andrew Blair, Den Of Geek, 11th May 2016

Review: Jeeves and Wooster

John Gordon Sinclair steals the show and is hugely watchable and entertaining. The farce is predictable in many places, but still gets the laughs from the audience, and you cannot deny the clever staging and direction by Sean Foley.

Gordon Barr, Newcastle Chronicle, 15th October 2014

Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense comes to Newcastle

The Olivier award-winning West End comedy Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is set to arrive on Tyneside this autumn, starring James Lance and John Gordon Sinclair as P.G. Wodehouse's iconic double act.

Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 27th May 2014

Gregory's Girl: Lead actors go back to school

It was the movie that changed the Scottish film industry and made stars of its two unknown leads. In a BBC Scotland documentary John Gordon Sinclair and Clare Grogan go back to the school in Cumbernauld where Gregory's Girl was filmed.

Steven Brocklehurst, BBC News, 11th December 2012

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