Alex McCrindle

Biography

McCrindle began his acting career in 1937 starring in minor roles in UK Television.

From 1946 to 1951 he played the role of Jock Anderson in Dick Barton – Special Agent. In 1951 he starred in his first film in the USA, The House in the Square. From there his acting career took off.

He then did five more films: I Believe in You (1952), The Kidnappers (1953), Trouble in the Glen (1954), Geordie (1955) and Depth Charge (1960). From 1962 to 1974 he went to television acting. In 1976 he was cast as General Dodonna in the first Star Wars film.

He went back to minor roles on TV, including the role of the eccentric veterinarian Ewan Ross on All Creatures Great and Small.

Known For

Normal Service
Normal Service
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

Filmography

1989 Leaving
as Man in Office
1988 Normal Service
as Wilf
1988 The Play on One
as Wilf
1987 Comrades
as Gaolor
1984 Sakharov
as Siberia Trainman
1983 Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Macdougal
1983 Flying Into the Wind
as The Tramp
1982 The Man Who Saved the World
as Jan Dodonna (archive footage)
1982 Cloud Howe
as Old Leslie
1981 Eye of the Needle
as Tom
1979 Degree of Uncertainty
as Father
1979 Dick Turpin
as Dr Hector Andrews
1979 Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
as Hepworth
1978 Donal and Sally
as Tam
1978 You Are My Heart's Delight
as David
1978 All Creatures Great and Small
as Ewan Ross
1978 The Peregrine Hunters
as
1977 Star Wars
as General Dodonna
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Baggageman
1962 The Saint
as Fergus MacLish