Television
Masson's first television appearances were in the late 1980s, including an episode of Taggart. He played Stan Laurel in the episode "Meltdown" of the sitcom, Red Dwarf; Eck in the 1992 comedy series, My Dead Dad; Rodney Morris in EastEnders (2000); Tam Flood in Hamish Macbeth (1996) as well as various roles in Is It Bill Bailey? (1998) He also played rock band manager Art Stilton in Channel 4 cult comedy The Young Person's Guide To Becoming a Rock Star (1998)., Cronie McKay in "No Holds Bard" (2009) and most recently Governor Grantham in "Dead Boss" by Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh (2012)
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
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