Douglas Sannachan

Who is Douglas Sannachan?

Douglas Sannachan is a Scottish actor most widely known for playing Billy the window cleaner in Gregory's Girl. His famous line was "If I don't see you through the week, I'll see you through a window". He grew up in the Calton area of Glasgow and was a pupil at John Street Secondary School, Glasgow. When he was 16 years old he was the subject of a chapter of a book called The Year of the Child by Bel Mooney.

Sannachan was a member of the Glasgow Youth Theatre and is a friend of John Gordon Sinclair and Robert Buchanan. He appeared in other films directed by Bill Forsyth such as That Sinking Feeling in which he played Simmy, and as well as playing Willy, was also the voice of the ice cream van, in Comfort and Joy. He also played Gerry in Submarine Escape, Edward in the Cold War drama Winter Flight and Tam in Living Apart Together.

On television, Douglas was in the children's programme Waiting for Elvis which was part of Dramarama written by Alex Norton. The episode featured Fergie, a young singer, trying to impress Elvis Presley during his short stop at Prestwick Airport in 1960 on his only confirmed visit to the UK. He played Billy a paramedic, in Life Support, Jim in Strathblair, Sneck in End of the Line and a murderer Jimmy, in Taggart - Murder in Season on STV when Mark McManus played the title role.