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Leading Roles
Supporting Roles


Overtoun House has featured on both the small and big screen.

Leading Roles
Overtoun House featured prominently in the following productions:

Regeneration (1997)
Director: Gilles MacKinnon
Synopsis: A film adaptation of Pat Barker's novel, Regeneration is a fictional account of shell-shocked soldiers recovering from the horrors of WWI including Wilfred Owen and Siegfriend Sassoon.
On Location: Overtoun House was used to portray Craiglockhart Hospital, the stately home in which the soldiers were convalescing (the real Craiglockhart Hospital is now part of the Napier University campus). Production designer Andrew Harris renovated parts of the building to produce darkened hospital interiors, although some of the patients rooms were shot in a Glasgow studio.

 

Tales from the Madhouse (2001)
Set in a Victorian sanatorium this series featured the stories of eight characters whose lives were affected by their encounter with Jesus of Nazerth. The characters included biblical figures such as Barabarus and Judas, as well as fellow prisioners and slaves. The series was shot on location at Overtoun House and shown on the BBC around Easter.

 

Supporting Roles
Overtoun House can also be glimpsed in the following productions:

Glasgow Kiss (2000)
A romantic drama set in a Glasgow newspaper office the House was used in some of the scenes from this BBC series.

 

Murder Rooms - The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2001)
This BBC period detective drama about Joseph Bell the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Overtoun House was used to portray some of the offices in the programme.

 

Pyaar Ishq aur Mohabbat (2001)
This musical Bollywood movie by director Rajiv Rai centred around three men's pursuit of a female medical student who comes to study at Glasgow University. Overtoun House was just one of the many Scottish locations used in the film.

 

Days that Shook the World (2003)
Overtoun House played the role of Ipatiev House in the episode detailing the execution of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, during the Russian Revoltion. The episode was aired on 4th November 2003 on BBC2. On a features page on the BBC website you can clearly see the rear staircase of OH.

 

Tartan Shorts: This Old House (2003)
A 10 minute short film shown on BBC1 on 28th December about three children who stay in a talking haunting house.

 

For more details on this films goto

IMDb (Internet Movies Database) and look at their
titles with location Overtoun House, West Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK

 

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