Ewan Hooper Ewan Hooper Ewan Hooper (Born on 23 October 1935 in Dundee) is a Scottish actor who is a graduate from, and now an Associate Member of, RADA. Hooper was the motivating force in the foundation of the Greenwich Theatre, which opened in 1969. Hooper was the founder director of the Scottish Theatre Company formed in Glasgow in the 1980s. He is best remembered as the priest in "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave", along with a recurring role as Camp Controller Alec Foster in Jimmy Perry and David Croft's "Hi-de-Hi!". Television roles Detective Sergeant Smith in 1970s series "Hunters Walk".
Ewan Ewan Ewan is a Scottish, male given name, most common throughout Scotland. It is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name, Eòghann. The prefix of "Eo" in "Eoghan", is means "yew". This has caused many to translate Eoghan to mean "Born of the Yew". "Eo", also sometimes translates to mean Salmon. It has also come to mean "Well Born" based on the Latinized form of "Eugenius".It is possibly a derivative of the Pictish name, "Vuen" (or 'Wen'), "born of the mountain." Ewen or Ewan is also a Scottish surname, as in Clan MacEwen. Owen is the predominant modern Welsh and Irish