Scottish actor and comedian Johnny Beattie has died at the age of 93. The entertainer is said to have passed away peacefully after a short spell at St Margaret's Hospice near Glasgow.

Was Johnny Beattie a Catholic?

He attended St Gerard's Roman Catholic Secondary School, but left school at sixteen to start an apprenticeship and became involved with amateur dramatics, and by the mid-1950s he had become a stand-up comedian.