For a dozen years, Scottish-born
Stuart Sinclair Blyth amazed Britsh and Irish audiences in a vast variety of roles, mostly "baddies", on stage ("The Woman of our Dreams" by
Mario Vargas Llosa), TV (i. e. two guest stints on
Taggart (1983)) and in a couple of brilliant feature films like
The Debt Collector (1999) with
Billy Connolly,
16 Years of Alcohol (2003) with
Kevin McKidd and
Accelerator (2000), an Irish action drama that earned him a Best Actor Award in Cherbourg, France.
His most famous parts, though, were the lead on the short-lived drama series
Tinsel Town (2000) where he played the rough drug dealer Paul Coutts, and the role of a sensitive environmental activist in a precious but little-seen movie by
Phil Davis called
Hold Back the Night (1999) (with veteran actress
Sheila Hancock playing a dying lesbian and
Christine Tremarco playing a feisty abuse/incest survivor).
Things were looking bright for Stuart. In 2012, however, he disappeared from the public eye to lead a more quiet life in Scotland.