Tom Morton

Thomas "Tom" Morton (born 31 December 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster, journalist and musician. He lives and works mainly in the Shetland Islands.

Morton is currently writing for the magazines iScot, the Shetland-based 60 North and Scottish Memories. He contributes to the online whisky magazine scotchwhisky.com and broadcasts weekly on the Limerick-based internet radio station Radio Vera Ireland

Until April 2015, Morton presented a BBC Radio Scotland show, broadcast Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 10:00 pm to 1:00 am, a Scottish take on rock and pop from obscure blues to mainstream pop and soul and current independent releases.

He has written several books, including a biography of the Gaelic rock band Runrig, a whisky travelogue called Spirit of Adventure, and several critically acclaimed novels. A spy novel called Serpentine was published in the UK in 2009 and in the US and Canada the following year. For many years, he worked as a print journalist, as a columnist with the Daily and Sunday Express, Scotland on Sunday, The Big Issue in Scotland, The Shetland Times, and as a staff reporter with national newspaper The Scotsman. He was the first non-DC Thomson employee to script the legendary Sunday Post cartoon strips The Broons and Oor Wullie – something he did for 12 months in 2005 and 2006. A Whisky in Monsterville, "the first interactive malt whisky novel" was published in August 2013 by Looderhorn Books.

Tom Morton (actor)

Tom Morton (born 29 July 1981) is an actor and director with dual French and British nationality. He is completely bilingual and also works extensively as a translator and voice artist.

Biography

Morton was born and grew up in London, where he studied at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle before heading to the University of Edinburgh to study history and languages (Russian and Italian). During his time in Edinburgh, he pursued his interest in acting and joined the Bedlam Theatre. From 1999 to 2003, he worked there as an actor, but also became involved in directing, production and writing. He adapted and directed Exit the King by Ionesco, The Trial by Kafka and Cuisine et Dépendances by Bacri-Jaoui.

A year later he moved to Paris, where he attended the Cours Florent before being spotted in 2007 by Isabelle Mergault, who cast him as the second male lead in Enfin veuve, alongside Michèle Laroque and Jacques Gamblin.

Morton worked again with Mergault in 2008 in Marcel Mithois' Croque Monsieur, directed by Alain Sachs. He played Nicolas at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris from January to June that year, then on tour in France, Belgium and Switzerland from January to May 2009. He also had a small part in Mergault's third film, Donnant Donnant.