TV and film actor Bill Paterson will be a recipient of one of this year’s Outstanding Contribution Awards at Bafta Scotland.

He will be recognised and presented with the award at the event, hosted by Edith Bowman at Glasgow’s Radisson Blu Hotel, on Sunday.

Mr Paterson will receive an award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television for his 50 year career.

He has appeared in Hollywood movies such as Truly Madly Deeply, The Witches and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, television shows including Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Crow Road, Smiley's People and Doctor Who, and theatre productions including Earthquakes in London and Death and the Maiden.

This year, Mr Paterson was seen on stage alongside acting veteran Brian Cox in Waiting for Godot as part of the 50th anniversary of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum, playing Estragon.

He also recently completed filming the Dad’s Army film, set for release in 2016, starring alongside Michael Gambon, Bill Nighy and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Mr Paterson said: “It was tremendous and entirely unexpected to be told I was to receive such a prestigious award.

"I'm delighted and looking forward to a wonderful evening – thank you so much to BAFTA Scotland for such an incredible honour.”

Born in Glasgow, he spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

He made his professional acting debut in 1967, appearing alongside Leonard Rossiter in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.

The award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting will be presented to Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 and award-winning editor. She is best known for her work as Commissioning Editor for Dispatches and overseeing Unreported World and Channel 4 News. During her time editing Dispatches the programme won multiple BAFTAs, while Byrne herself won the Women in Film and Television award for Best Woman in Factual Television and was made a Fellow of The Royal Television Society for her ‘outstanding contribution to television journalism’.

Also being celebrated at the prestigious awards ceremony is David Balfour, the globally renowned prop master who will receive the accolade for his Outstanding Contribution to Craft.

Since landing his first job at Glasgow’s Citizen’s Theatre, he has created and manufactured props for decades, working on Hollywood blockbusters such as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Maleficent and Jungle Book: Origins, which is currently in production.

Previous winners include Robbie Coltrane in 2011, Outstanding Contribution to Film and Lorraine Kelly last year's award winner for Outstanding Contribution To Television.