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FM leads tributes to Scots entertainment giant

- RUTH SUTER

STANLEY Baxter has been hailed a "giant of Scottish entertainment" after his death at the age of 99.

The Glasgow-born funnyman was one of the most famous faces on British TV for decades with hit sketch shows, such as The Stanley Baxter Show on the BBC and The Stanley Baxter Picture Show on ITV.

His friend and biographer Brian Beacom said the star died on Thursday in a north London care home for entertainment figures.

Baxter was a multi-faceted comic actor and impressionist who was bold enough to mimic the Pope and even the Queen.

And he loved to send up his native city with comedy routines based on Glaswegian "patter", including a hit book Parliamo Glasgow.

Beacom said: "It is with great sadness that the family and friends of legendary Scottish comedian and comedy actor Stanley Baxter announce that he died peacefully on the evening of the 11th December 2025, only a few months short of his 100th birthday.

"He was under the expert care of the actors' care home Denville Hall, where he had been in residence since late 2023." Baxter's TV shows, in which he often appeared in drag, drew huge audiences and marked him out as one of the funniest, as well as occasionally one of the most controversial, comics of his generation.