Andy Gray (actor)

Andy Gray (born 1959) is a Scottish actor and comedy writer. He starred in the BBC Radio Scotland sketch show Naked Radio, and its later television counterpart Naked Video,[1] before becoming well known as the appropriately named "Chancer", best friend and source of problems to Willie Melvin (Gerard Kelly) in the 1987 sitcom City Lights.[1] [2] He is well known for pantomime, usually co-writing the script and often alongside other former City Lights cast members. He also appeared opposite Kelly in a production of The Odd Couple. He also took the starring role in a Channel 4 proposed comedy pilot show Miles is Better where he played a very enthusiastic burglar alarm salesman (Miles), who lived with his granny and made her life a living hell.

He appeared in the Edinburgh Fringe 2013 with panto colleague Grant Stott in Philip Meeks's play Kiss Me Honey Honey, which won a Fringe First.[3] The show returned at the 2014 Fringe. In 2014 he played a leading role as a darker character, Black Ruthven, in Scottish feature film Time Teens:The Beginning, with writer/actor Ian Grieve.[4] The premiere of the film was co-hosted with Grant Stott and attended by politicians and community, before going on to win several film awards globally. From 2016 until 2018 he played Pete Galloway in Scottish soap opera River City; it was announced in early August 2018 that Gray would not be returning to post-summer filming due to health issues. He appears in the 2016 film Tommy's Honour.[5]

References
  1. Rudden, Liam; Balfour, Josie (28 March 2008). "Elaine adds voice of authority". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
  2. Andy Gray on IMDb
  3. Theatre Review: Kiss Me Honey, Honey Edinburgh Evening News 18 October 2013
  4. Time Teens:The Beginning on IMDb
  5. Tommy's Honour on IMDb


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