‘Rob Roy’ Actor Was 59

Brian McCardie, the Scottish actor who portrayed the youthful brother of Liam Neeson’s titular hero in Michael Caton-Jones’ historic drama Rob Roy, has died. He was 59.

McCardie died “instantly at residence” on Sunday, his sister Sarah announced on X. “An exquisite and passionate actor on stage and display screen, Brian cherished his work and touched many lives, and is gone a lot too quickly,” she wrote.

Born on Jan. 22, 1965, and raised close to Glasgow, McCardie appeared on the BBC cleaning soap opera EastEnders in one in every of his earlier roles.

He went on to play gang lord turned police informant Tommy Hunter on the primary two seasons of the BBC drama Line of Obligation (2012-14) and extra just lately confirmed up on such different British collection as Time, Crime, The Tower and Domina and the miniseries Insurrection.

Within the U.S., he was seen on episodes of Shameless and Outlander, and he had a job within the upcoming Outlander prequel, Blood of My Blood.

McCardie scored excessive marks for his emotional efficiency as Alasdair MacGregor in Rob Roy (1995), additionally starring Jessica Lange.

His movie résumé additionally included a flip as Scottish soccer legend Dave Mackay in The Damned United (2009), starring Michael Sheen as Leeds United coach Brian Clough, and work in Velocity 2: Cruise Management (1997), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Low Winter Solar (2006), Filth (2013), Ghosts (2014), Caton-Jones’ Our Girls (2019) and Broken (2024).