Question: What role did Denis Lawson play in the 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth?

Context articles: Gregory's Two Girls
Local Hero
Being Human (1994 film)
Local Hero (album)
Housekeeping (film)
That Sinking Feeling
Comfort and Joy (1984 film)
Dolls (2006 film)
Denis Lawson
A Quiet Night In

Gregory's Two Girls is a 1999 British film.
 It is the sequel to "Gregory's Girl" (1981), set in Cumbernauld which also starred John Gordon Sinclair and was written and directed by Bill Forsyth.
 The movie received mixed reviews.
Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, and Burt Lancaster.
 Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company.
 For his work on the film, Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
Being Human is a 1994 British-Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Carlyle and Theresa Russell.
 The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man's history on Earth.
Local Hero is the debut soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released in March 1983 by Vertigo Records internationally and by Warner Bros.
 Records in the United States.
 It contains music composed for the 1983 film "Local Hero", produced by David Puttnam and both written and directed by Bill Forsyth.
Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill.
 Based on the 1980 novel "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson, the film is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho during the 1950s.
 After being abandoned by their mother and raised by elderly relatives, the sisters are looked after by their eccentric aunt whose unconventional and unpredictable ways affect their lives.
 Filmed on location in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, "Housekeeping" won two awards at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival.
That Sinking Feeling is a 1979 comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, his first film as a director.
 The film is set in his home city, Glasgow, Scotland.
 The young actors in film were members of the Glasgow Youth Theatre.
 The film also features Richard Demarco, the Edinburgh gallery owner, playing himself.
 The four main actors went on to feature in Forsyth's following film "Gregory's Girl".
Comfort and Joy is a 1984 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Bill Paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him.
 After he witnesses an attack on an ice cream van by angry competitors, he is led into the struggle between two Italian families over the ice cream market of Glasgow.
 The film received a BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1985.
Dolls is a British short film written and directed by Susan Luciani, narrated by Charles Dance and starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson.
 Broadcast on BBC and Sky TV, the film was officially selected to play in International film festivals Spain, Italy, France, Cyprus, Africa and Japan and the United States.
 It was also shown at Roguerunner Screenings and at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and was selected to feature as part of the British Society of Cinematographers' New Film Maker Night at Pinewood Studios.
Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947) is a Scottish actor and director.
 He is known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of "Bleak House", as Gordon Urquhart in the film "Local Hero", as DI Steve McAndrew in BBC One's "New Tricks", and as Wedge Antilles in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
 He is the uncle of actor Ewan McGregor.
"A Quiet Night In" is the second episode of the British dark comedy television anthology series "Inside No. 9".
 It first aired on 12 February 2014 on BBC Two.
 Written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, it stars the writers as a pair of hapless burglars attempting to break into the large, modernist house of a couple—played by Denis Lawson and Oona Chaplin—to steal a painting.
 Once the burglars make it into the house, they encounter obstacle after obstacle, while the lovers, unaware of the burglars' presence, argue.
 The episode progresses almost entirely without dialogue, relying instead on physical comedy and slapstick, though more sinister elements are present in the plot.
 In addition to Pemberton, Shearsmith, Lawson and Chaplin, "A Quiet Night In" stars Joyce Veheary and Kayvan Novak.