Reuters

Highlander actor tops worst accent poll

Updated 16.18 Fri Mar 14 2008

Keywords: accent, Scotland, Christopher Lambert, actor

Actor Christopher Lambert's fake Scottish accent in the film Highlander has been voted the worst in cinema history.

In the hit movie released in 1986, Lambert plays Connor Macleod, an immortal warrior who can only die by decapitation.

"An American audience is typically unaware of just how wide of the mark many of these attempts at Scottish accents are" -Jeremy Angel

Born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland, Macleod fights his way to modern-day New York in 1985, where a group of immortals take part in a final battle.

The French actor's attempts to copy the Caledonian brogue as an immortal swordsman won the disapproval of 42 per cent quizzed in a survey carried out by film memorabilia website AsWornln.com.

Australian star Mel Gibson came second as Scots freedom fighter William Wallace in Braveheart.

"An American audience is typically unaware of just how wide of the mark many of these attempts at Scottish accents are. It seemed entirely logical to ask the Scots how they rate these half-baked attempts to imitate their accent," said Jeremy Angel, director of AsWornIn.com.