The Hobbit films starred Ken Stott.
 Most recently, he has starred as Balin in the live-action adaptation of The Hobbit, and played the role to critical acclaim
His highest-profile television roles have included hospital radio DJ Eddie McKenna in BBC Scotland's Takin' Over The Asylum the leading character, DCI Red Metcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah (BBC One, 200105); DI Chappell in ITV police drama The Vice (19992003); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory (ITV, 2003); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf (ITV, 2005) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Caf (BBC One, 2005)

