David McKay (actor)

For other people of the same name, see David McKay (disambiguation).

David McKay
Born	David McKay Glasgow
Occupation	Actor, Television director

David McKay is a Scottish actor and television director.

In the television series Shoebox Zoo, he played McTaggart who was the Keeper of the Book of Forbidden Knowledge who was been bound to stay with Michael Scott (Peter Mullan) until the book is found by Marnie (Vivien Endicott-Douglas). McTaggart has been a number of people in the first series. A tour guide, a servant to Michael and Toledo and a clown. Now as the second series unfolds, he must help Marnie and Michael as much as he can to help find the Book and stop Toledo taking over and finding the Book before Marnie.

He has also appeared in two Ken Loach films: Ae Fond Kiss... and My Name Is Joe. He has also had roles in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Les Misérables (1998), Braveheart and Rab C Nesbitt, among others.

He has directed for High Times, The Basil Brush Show, Tinsel Town and My Parents Are Aliens, and has written and directed a short film, Caesar, on pigeon-fancying.

Music

David plays rhythm guitar for the Glasgow stoner rock band Superunknown.^[1]

New socialist party

David McKay has been cited by Tommy Sheridan^[2] as being a leading participant in a new socialist party in Scotland, which would be a breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party.

References

1. ^ English, Paul (2008-06-04). "Return of High Times is great news for director Davie McKay after brush with death". Daily Record (Trinity Mirror). Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20080606081720/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-interviews/2008/06/04/return-of-high-times-is-great-news-for-director-davie-mckay-after-brush-with-death-86908-20594051/. Retrieved 2008-08-21. 
2. ^ ‘Scotland is big enough for more than one socialist party. I predict thousands will join us’, Sunday Herald

External links

• David McKay at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC press release, accessed January 7, 2006

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Name	Mackay, David
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