A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!
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I Know That Voice71%
The Class of ‘9271%
The Captains63%
That's Entertainment!73%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
Elstree 197661%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
That's Entertainment! III70%
The Matrix Revisited69%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Casting By68%
Directed by John Ford70%
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic75%
Love, Antosha74%
The Celluloid Closet72%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear70%
