Byrne About Byrne
1988-04-01 | 60 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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John ByrneSelf/Mobile Library Driver
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Robbie ColtraneSelf/Detective
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Robert CarlyleSpanky Farrell
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Alastair GalbraithGunman
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Juliet CadzowMother
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Bill PatersonFather/F.S. McDade
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Katy MurphyUsherette/Backing Vocals
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Muriel GrayWaitress/Backing Vocals
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Ralph RiachCollector
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Kate DonnellyBride
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Richard WilsonEddie Clockerty