Career
He has worked as an actor, recitalist, lecturer, director and theatre consultant. He is also a published author and an exhibited painter. Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he was a notable Hamlet at the Citizens" Theatre and a successful Macbeth at the Edinburgh Festival.
He was also "This Manitoba Craig" on television, while his many films include Lucky Jim, A Night to Remember, Operation Bullshine, The Flesh and the Fiends, Victim, Cleopatra and Jason and the Argonauts.
He gained a Doctor of Philosophy. from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand and is much in demand internationally as a lecturer, writer and consultant on Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Burns. Cairney has written books on many famous Scots as well as other books on football, theatre and his native Glasgow, where he now lives with his New Zealand-born wife, actress and scriptwriter Alannah O"Sullivan.
