Iain Cuthbertson  Iain Cuthbertson (4 January 1930 – 4 September 2009) was a Scottish character actor and theatre director. He was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive gravelly, heavily accented voice. He had lead roles in "The Borderers" (1968-70),"Tom Brown's Schooldays" (1971), "Budgie" (1971-72), its spinoff "Charles Endell Esquire" (1979-80), "Danger UXB" (1979) and "Sutherland's Law" (1973-76). He guest starred in many prominent British shows including "The Avengers", "Dr. Finlay's Casebook", "The Onedin Line", "Survivors", "Ripping Yarns", "Doctor Who", "Z-Cars", "Juliet Bravo", "Rab C. Nesbitt", "Minder", "Inspector Morse" and "Agatha Christie's Poirot". Born in 1930, the son of the biochemist Sir David Cuthbertson, and brought up in Glasgow, he was educated at Glasgow Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen (where he graduated with an MA honours degree in French and Spanish). His first break as an actor was on radio while at university. He spent two years' national service in the Black Watch. During that time he was ordered to act as prisoner's friend at the court martial of a soldier accused of appearing late on parade, and then assaulting his superior officer when he eventually did turn up. He managed to get the soldier cleared of the more serious charge. The soldier's comment afterwards was "Thanks awfully fur pretendin ah didnae dae it sur". His original wish was for a job in the Foreign Office, but he became a radio journalist with the BBC in Glasgow. Cuthbertson started acting at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre in 1958 and became General Manager and Director of Productions in 1962. In that year the theatre hosted an exhibition of work by the artist Stewart Bowman Johnson  Three years later he became Associate Director of London's Royal Court Theatre. His most memorable television role was as the eponymous Procurator Fiscal in the long running "Sutherland's Law". Sutherland's Law is a television series made by BBC Scotland between 1973 and 1976. The series had originated as a stand-alone edition of the portmanteau programme Drama Playhouse in 1972 in which Derek Francis played Sutherland and was then commissioned as an ongoing series.