As his first major acting role, McCann played a disabled personal trainer in the 2002 television comedy drama The Book Group, winning the Scottish BAFTA for the best television performance of 2002. He appeared in an advertisement for Scott's Porage Oats, dressed in a vest and kilt. He was fired because he laughed during the takes. McCann's first acting job was as an extra on the film Willow (1988). Rory McCann was first trained as an actor by writer-artist Robert Parsifal Finch in The Actor's Workshop, Glasgow in 1998.

He also worked as a bridge painter (on the Forth Road Bridge), landscape gardener and carpenter. īefore becoming an actor, McCann was a painter who studied at the Scottish School of Forestry near Inverness. He has a sister, Sally-Gay McCann, born in 1972. Rory McCann (born 24 April 1969) is a Scottish actor, best known for portraying Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane on the HBO series Game of Thrones, Michael 'Lurch' Armstrong in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz, Jurgen the Brutal in the adventure comedy Jumanji: The Next Level and the voice of Megatron in Transformers: EarthSpark.

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