John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair (born Gordon John Sinclair; 4 February 1962) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing Gregory in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl. There was a Gordon Sinclair already registered with Equity, so he took John Gordon Sinclair as his professional name. In 2019, Sinclair played Drew Cubbin in the BBC drama Traces. Life and career Sinclair was born on 4 February 1962 in Glasgow and started work as an apprentice electrician. At 15, he joined Glasgow's Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met Robert Buchanan, a fellow fan of Canadian progressive rock group Rush. As a result, he starred in a number of films by director Bill Forsyth, perhaps the most notable of which is 1981's Gregory's Girl, shot when he was 19 years old. He reprised the role nearly two decades later in Gregory's Two Girls (1999), and also appeared in Forsyth's Local Hero (1983). His other film roles included appearances in Britannia Hospital (1982), The Girl in the Picture (1985), and Erik the Viking (1989). He has continued to act on stage and screen. Other roles include parts in Goodbye Mr Steadman, Mad About Alice (2004), and Roman Road (2004). He was also in the first series of LWT's Hot Metal (1986) and both the radio and television sitcom An Actor's Life For Me (1989–93). He played Dan Weir in Espedair Street (1998), the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the Iain Banks novel, as well as playing the lead part of Dr Finlay in the Radio 4 series entitled Adventures of a Black Bag (2001–02). He also made a brief appearance in one episode of Bergerac ("Ninety percent proof") in 1983. He appeared in the 1982 Scottish squad's World Cup song "We Have a Dream", a number 5 hit in the UK, which was written and performed by B. A. Robertson, with Sinclair speaking his recollection of a dream about Scottish football success. He later revived this Scottish footballing connection by narrating the 2006–07 BBC Scotland documentary series That Was The Team That Was.