He is notable for his appearances on television, radio and the stage, including Anne Boleyn (2010, Shakespeare's Globe) and several productions for Propeller.
After leaving the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama he spent two year in school and community theatre work in Inverness, Pitlochry and Glasgow.
In 1983–84 Dougall played a twin in Peter Pan for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre in London.
[2] Dougall has played a wide range of roles in Shakespeare plays, including Henry VIII, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, and The Winter's Tale for the Globe Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, The Winter's Tale, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors and The Merchant of Venice for Propeller, and Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
These include Dracula, Dr Zhivago, Fortunes of War, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia, The Silver Fox, Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, The Lamplighter and Real Recordings in a Fictional City.