Byrne About Byrne
Byrne About Byrne
Release: 1988-04-01
·Runtime: 60m
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Cast
Bill Paterson
as Father/F.S. McDade
John Byrne
as Self/Mobile Library Driver
Richard Wilson
as Eddie Clockerty
Robert Carlyle
as Spanky Farrell
Katy Murphy
as Usherette/Backing Vocals
Ralph Riach
as Collector
Juliet Cadzow
as Mother
Muriel Gray
as Waitress/Backing Vocals
Kate Donnelly
as Bride
Robbie Coltrane
as Self/Detective
Alastair Galbraith
as Gunman