Which Monteath (Alec or David) acted on a show set in a fictional town based on inner-city Salford?
Alec Monteath Alec Monteath (born 22 May 1941 in Perthshire) was an announcer for Scottish Television from 1964 until 1969 and an announcer on BBC Scotland. Monteath was also an actor who played Dougal Lachlan in STV's Take the High Road from 1980 until 1992. His son, David Monteath was an actor on Coronation Street.
Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the antihero protagonist of the BBC political satire, "The Thick of It", and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi. His role is Director of Communications for the Government of the United Kingdom. Tucker was originally a secondary character, with Chris Langham's Hugh Abbott as the protagonist being watched over by Tucker, but after Langham was fired from the series the show directed more attention towards the character of Tucker and his dealings with the inept Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (DoSaC), originally the Department of Social Affairs (DSA) in series 1 and 2. He is one of four characters from the series to appear in the film "In the Loop".