Simon Weir

{{short description|Scottish actor}}

Simon Weir is a Scottish actor. He is known as Paul Lafferty in Take the High Road and for his role as a gangster in River City.{{cite news|url=http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/12/24/tommy%E2%80%99s-wartime-football-recalled|title=Tommy's wartime football recalled|date=24 December 2009|work=Shetland Times|access-date=28 July 2010}} He also appeared in the short-film The Acid House as Tambo.{{cite news|url=https://bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111201824/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 11, 2006|title=BFI Sight & Sound - The Acid House (1998)|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=28 July 2010}} Simon also recently took up the role of CS Carlisle in the independent movie Night is Day (film)."[http://www.nightisday.net/cast.php NightIsDay.net] - Night Is Day official website" He also played Stuart MacIntosh on the television series Monarch of the Glen. In November 2019, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Steve Jones.

Outside of acting, Weir is part of a group aimed at reviving defunct Scottish football club Third Lanark{{cite news|url=http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/news/article/thirds-get-hand-from-macron/|title=Thirds get hand from Macron|publisher=Scottish Football League|access-date=4 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505140025/http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/news/article/thirds-get-hand-from-macron/|archive-date=5 May 2012}} and restoring their Cathkin Park ground.[https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/sport/football/meet-man-aiming-make-cathkin-15698066 Meet the man aiming to make Cathkin Park 'the best amateur football stadium in the world'], Isaac Callan, Glasgow Live, 18 January 2019