United Kingdom, Feb. 20 -- Richard E Grant has claimed his father tried to shoot him on more than one occasion.

The 64-year-old actor has reflected on his childhood in Swaziland - now known as Estwatini - as his alcoholic dad Henrik "pulled the trigger" after the teenager poured away his booze.

He told Davina McCall on the 'Begin Again' podcast: "He tried to shoot me when I was 15 when I emptied all his Scotch supply down the sink.

"I was half way through [pouring] the eleventh bottle, gun at the back of my head, I ducked, went off, ran to the garden - he finally found me, said 'I'm going to blow your brains out.' "

The 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' star pleaded with his father to "do it" and "get this over and done with".

He recalled: ...