AWARD-winning actor Iain Robertson is to make a documentary film about Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic Football Club.
Robertson, 35, said the documentary would be made by the new Glasgow-based production company Stone Scissors Paper, with which he is involved.
The TV and movie star said the Walfrid documentary would offer the “definitive” story of the Marist brother who founded Celtic in 1888.
He said: “We’ve been commissioned to make a documentary about Brother Walfrid.
“Rather than it being about Celtic Football Club it’s about the man and his life, and trying to tell the definitive version of his story and his history.
“We’ve got a very unique idea.”
Brother Walfrid, born Andrew Kerins in 1840, came from Ballymote, County Sligo, in Ireland.
He joined the Marist Brothers religious order and moved to Scotland in the 1870s.
He founded Celtic as a means of raising money for the poor and deprived in the east end of Glasgow.
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