
Acting
Raymond Mearns
Scotland, UK
Raymond Mearns is a Scottish actor and comedian who is best known for his part in Scottish comedy sitcom Legit, in which he played Happy Boab. He has also appeared in Ae Fond Kiss... and It's a Free World..., which were both directed by award-winning Ken Loach. Mearns has also acted alongside his brother Eddie when they played the Blind Twins, Troy and Roy Pettifer in the 1998 short film Home, which won Best Short Film at the 1999 BAFTA Awards. He appeared in the Rab C. Nesbitt Christmas special, in which he played a BBC security guard. It aired on 23 December 2008. He also starred in Next Time Ned.
Acting credits
7.2A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.
The Illusionist
2010
NRAfter falling in love with Mhairi online, Jon travels from the USA to Scotland to meet her. When he gets there however, things don't go quite as he imagined.
The Mug
2020
6.5A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Ae Fond Kiss...
2004
NRAt his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.
The Organist
2025
6.0A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied and wounded, their chief is near death. He is about to hand over power to his son when an army of a completely different kind descends upon them.
Tumult
2012
7.0An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Limbo
2020
6.6Working-class Angie, sacked from a recruitment agency for bad public behaviour, teams up with her flatmate to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate for work, the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.
It's a Free World...
2007
NRSome Laugh - Live at the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow. Hosted by Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan, and Stuart McPherson, with guests Greg Hemphill, Raymond Mearns and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd.
Some Laugh - Live at the Pavilion
2024
6.9A local council worker inspects three homes.
Home
1998
5.2Heist thriller and adaptation of Ian Rankin's book, which sees a bored millionaire plan to swap the contents of a gallery's warehouse with near-perfect forgeries.
Doors Open
2012
NRMalcolm Lyons is back, and this time he’s got a vengeance! Working with hitman Hugh Rafferty, they begin to take hostages, and the clock is ticking for the team to find them and take down Lyons, or he’ll begin to execute them one by one. Will they rescue the hostages in time, or will they just be another addition to Mad Malkie’s death toll?
Sharp Instinct: Volume II
2024
9.0Ned Randall has been trying to make it as an actor for almost thirty years. Following Ned's life for a week to see several amusing but disastrous auditions.
Next Time Ned
2009