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He recalls how the star had set him at ease and made him laugh with his "wicked sense of humour" when he was a nervous young actor on his first production.

"Goodnight," he says to his family - a typical touch of humour from a man who told us he was determined to die on his terms.

Sir Billy told McClelland: "I wish you all the very best, I hope your career goes bouncing from strength to strength and that the Glasgow humour goes bounding from strength to strength, as it will."

Their disappointment showed following Tuesday's defeat against Australia - but so did their humour.

William said: "Laughing is so important – a sense of humour – for getting through life."