page_title: Johnny Beattie
section_title: Personal life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Johnny Beattie / Personal life and death
caption_attribution_description: River City actor Johnny Beattie seen outside St. Margaret's Hospice in Clydebank for the Queen's visit
context_page_description: John Gerard Beattie MBE was a Scottish actor and stand-up comedian whose career spanned over six decades. He appeared on shows including the sketch show Scotch & Wry and the sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, and later appeared in more dramatic roles including Malcolm Hamilton in the soap opera River City.
context_section_description: Beattie married Kitty Lamont in 1950. They had two daughters (Maureen, an actress, and Louise, a solicitor and former actress) and two sons (Paul and Mark). Beattie and Lamont separated in 1982, and she died in 1994. 
  Beattie died on 9 July 2020 at the St. Margaret’s Hospice in Clydebank, aged 93.
caption: Johnny Beattie
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