Tributes paid after death of Scottish comedy legend Stanley Baxter at 99

Tributes have been paid to “giant of Scottish entertainment” Stanley Baxter, who has died at the age of 99.

- by News Reporter

Ronnie Corbett and Stanley Baxter as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Stanley Baxter as a nun in his 1969 show Phil The Fluter in which he played eight characters Baxter with his wife, actress Moira Robertson in 1962

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

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

Nor was he afraid to send up his native city with hilarious comedy routines based on Glaswegian patois.