For ternary years within his youth he was a member of the band known as Keyhole, members of which late went in to form the Bay City Rollers. When attending Mountview Theatre School in London, Stott began working in the theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of twenty, however for occasionally years his earnings from either acting were minimum & he was forced to trend lines himself by likewise working as a double glazing salesman.

He appeared inside microscopic roles inside BBC series such as The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (King Lear, 1982), Secret Army (1985) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986), before he one of these days began to earn starring roles in television in the 1990s.

His greatest-profile television roles develop involved a leading character, DCI Red Matcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah (BBC One, 2001-date); as a drunk who fantasises just about sorting through redemption by joining a Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory (ITV, 2003); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf (ITV, 2005) and as a made-up Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café (BBC One, 2005).

Inside film, he has tended to play mostly supporting area, like DI McCall around Shallow Grave (1994), Ted in Fever Pitch (1997) and Marius Honorius inside King Arthur (2004). Notwithstanding, he has experienced occasional starring roles on the large screen, virtually all notably paired Billy Connolly in The Debt Collector (1999).

Stott has as well continued to work around the theatre, & in 1997 was nominated in a best actor category at the Laurence Olivier Awards for his role in the play Art in 1996.

Aged xxx, Stott married the director's supporter known as Elizabeth, & it experienced a single baby, Bill, within 1985. But, a marriage late broke higher & Stott's todays partner is the actress Di Sherlock.