Now Sir Billy Connolly, who played the Highland ghillie in Mrs Brown, has revealed the close bond he and co-star Dame Judi Dench have formed in the 28 years since the movie’s release.

director John Madden recalled Billy Connolly’s fear his co-star “fancied” him. The pair stared opposite one another in the 1997 film Mrs Brown, which followed the story of a widowed Queen ...

Now Sir Billy Connolly, who played the Highland ghillie in Mrs Brown, has revealed the close bond he and co-star Dame Judi ...

SIR Billy Connolly has revealed how Dame Judi Dench ... actress as Queen Victoria in the 1997 Oscar-nominated film Mrs Brown. Sir Billy in the 1999 film The Boondock Saints as a gun-tottin ...

Sir Billy Connolly is one of Scotland’s favourite ... Connolly’s critically-acclaimed performance in 1997’s Mrs Brown earned him a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor and a Screen Actors ...

Billy Connolly with Judi Dench in Mrs Brown. There have been times in the past, however, when Connolly was overwhelmed by the trappings of fame. He felt threatened and started lashing out.