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Robbie Chalmers

Aberfeldy's Alan Cumming takes on role of Scots impostor who posed as 17-year-old schoolboy

A hoaxer who posed as a 17-year-old schoolboy while in his 30s has had his bizarre story turned into a film featuring Aberfeldy -born actor Alan Cumming.

Brian MacKinnon fooled school bosses into thinking he was a bright teenager from Canada called Brandon Lee.

Mr MacKinnon, now 59, attended Bearsden Academy for the first time in the 1970s, later gaining a place to study medicine at Glasgow University.

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