Bill Paterson

William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor. Throughout his career he has appeared regularly in radio drama and provided the narration for a large number of documentaries. Paterson has appeared in films and television series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Traffik (1989), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The Witches (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019), Brassic (2020) and House of the Dragon (2022). He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Scottish BAFTAs. William Tulloch Paterson was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1945. Paterson was raised in Dennistoun by his father, a plumber, and his mother, a hairdresser. He states that his interest in acting began with a school trip to the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals in 1961. However, after school he chose to initially pursue a career based on an interest in architecture and spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before deciding to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Known For: Acting

Born: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK, 1945-06-03

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Clydescope	Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited)	70
2	1974	The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil	Various	0
3	1978	Licking Hitler	Archie MacLean	0
4	1979	One Fine Day	Third Man in Lift	20
5	1981	The Cherry Orchard	Lopakhin	0
6	1984	Comfort and Joy	Alan	65
7	1984	A Private Function	Wormold	63
8	1984	The Killing Fields	Dr. MacEntire	75
9	1985	Dutch Girls	Mr Mole	38
10	1986	Defence of the Realm	Jack Macleod	64
11	1986	God's Chosen Car Park	Victor Rosen	0
12	1987	Coming Up Roses	Mr. Valentine	66
13	1987	Lily My Love	Colin	0
14	1987	Friendship's Death	Sullivan	68
15	1987	The Interrogation of John	Det. Supt. Chase	0
16	1988	Byrne About Byrne	Father/F.S. McDade	0
17	1989	The Return of the Musketeers	Charles I	62
18	1990	The Witches	Mr Jenkins	69
19	1990	Yellowbacks	Alex McPherson	70
20	1991	Truly Madly Deeply	Sandy	69
21	1992	Chaplin	Stage Manager	74
22	1994	Hard Times	Stephen Blackpool	70
23	1995	The Riddle of the Sands	Narrator	0
24	1996	Chaplin's Goliath	Narrator (voice)	65
25	1996	The Writing on the Wall	Bull	24
26	1996	Victory	Capt. Davidson	51
27	1998	Hilary and Jackie	Cello Teacher	66
28	2000	Complicity	Wallace Byatt	59
29	2001	The Whistle-Blower	D.I. Neil Sleightholme	80
30	2001	Othello	Sinclair Carver	66
31	2003	Bright Young Things	Sir James Brown	63
32	2004	Lie with Me	DCI Collman	45
33	2006	A War on Science	Narrator (voice)	90
34	2006	Amazing Grace	Lord Dundas	69
35	2006	Miss Potter	Rupert Potter	66
36	2007	Intervention	Dr. Martin	10
37	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
38	2007	Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars	Dr Watson	68
39	2008	The Man Who Lives with Bears	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
40	2009	Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen	Dr James Niven	73
41	2009	Creation	Dr. Gully	64
42	2009	Ghosts in the Machine	Himself	0
43	2011	The Man who Crossed Hitler	Kurt Ohnesorge	65
44	2011	Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me	Judge Underwood	55
45	2012	Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games	Narrator	0
46	2013	The List	Reg Troughton	44
47	2014	Documenting John Grierson	Narrator	0
48	2015	The Vote	Simon Featherstone	84
49	2016	Dad's Army	Private Frazer	50
50	2016	Churchill's Secret	Lord Moran	63
51	2021	The Colour Room	Gordon Forsythe	63
52	2024	A Bear Named Wojtek	Zoo Director (voice)	100
53	2024	Arthur's Whisky	Henry	58
54		The White Room	Jackie Jordan	0
55	1977	The Garden Beyond	Jim Finlayson	0
56	1977	The Thin End of the Wedge	Luke	0
57	1978	The Odd Job	Sergeant Mull	59
58	1978	Jackie McCafferty's Romance	Bus Conductor	0
59	1978	The Vanishing Army	Girling	0
60	1981	United Kingdom	Tony	0
61	1983	The Ploughman's Lunch	Lecturer	51
62	1985	Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman	Self	0
63	1987	Hidden City	Anthony	51
64	1988	Just Ask for Diamond	Chief Inspector Snape	43
65	1988	Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'	Titorelli	0
66	1988	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Henry Salt	70
67	1989	The Rachel Papers	Gordon Highway	51
68	1989	Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale	Jordan	75
69	1991	The Object of Beauty	Victor Swayle	52
70	1992	Tell Tale Hearts	Anthony Steadman	0
71	1992	In Dreams	Dr Gold	70
72	1992	God on the Rocks	Kenneth Marsh	0
73	1993	Wall of Silence	Howard Mullen	0
74	1995	The Turnaround	James Webb	40
75	1995	The Pen		0
76	1995	Richard III	Sir Richard Ratcliffe	67
77	1997	Spice World	Brian	49
78	1997	Mr White Goes To Westminster	Ben White	20
79	1999	Heart	Mr. Kreitman	55
80	1999	The Match	Tommy	58
81	1999	Sunshine	Minister of Justice	65
82	1999	Chrono-Perambulator	Professor Teddy Knox	0
83	2001	Behind Bars	Narrator	0
84	2002	The Entity		80
85	2002	Crush	Gerald	56
86	2002	Home Road Movies	Father	63
87	2003	Danielle Cable: Eyewitness	DI Nick Biddiss	0
88	2005	Rag Tale	Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd	32
89	2006	Fascism in Colour	Narrator (voice)	75
90	2008	The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen	Self - 'Henry Salt'	78
91	2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Richard Young	60
92	2009	1929: The Great Crash	Narrator	67
93	2009	Into the Storm	Clement Attlee	64
94	2011	The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema	Narrator (Voice)	0
95	2015	High-Rise	Mercer	56
96	2017	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Mr. Grimsby	68
97	2018	Wonderdate	Kolodon	80
98	2018	Happy New Year, Colin Burstead	Gordon Burstead	64
99	2019	The Day Mountbatten Died	Narrator (voice)	100
100	2020	Love Sarah	Felix	63
101	2020	Marionette	Dr. Mandelbaum	63
102	2020	Rebecca	Dr. Baker	63
103	2022	The Spirit of 1926	Family Lawyer	0
104	2024	Children of the Wicker Man	Self	0
105	2025	The House Was Not Hungry Then	Father	38

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Horizon		75
2	1970	Play for Today	Luke	63
3	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Girling	70
4	1978	Life of Shakespeare	King James I	0
5	1978	Will Shakespeare		100
6	1982	Smiley's People	Lauder Strickland	77
7	1983	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Ally Fraser	79
8	1986	The Singing Detective	Dr. Gibbon	76
9	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Titorelli	0
10	1988	The Play on One	Alex McPherson	60
11	1989	Traffik	John Lithgow	78
12	1989	A Wanted Man	Det. Supt. Chase	0
13	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Chief Inspector	66
14	1994	Hard Times	Stephen Blackpool	0
15	1994	Junior Masterchef		50
16	1995	Sharman	James Webb	0
17	1995	Oliver's Travels	Baxter	60
18	1995	Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Joe Small	0
19	1996	The Crow Road	Kenneth McHoan	70
20	1997	Melissa	DCI Cameron	60
21	1997	Arthouse	Self	0
22	1999	Wives and Daughters	Mr. Gibson	73
23	2000	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne		72
24	2001	Rebel Heart	James Connolly	60
25	2002	Born and Bred	Harry Woolf	85
26	2002	Battle of the Atlantic	Himself - Narrator	69
27	2002	Foyle's War	Patrick Jamieson	79
28	2002	Doctor Zhivago	Alexander Gromyko	67
29	2003	Canterbury Tales	Theo	69
30	2004	Sea of Souls	Dr. Douglas Monaghan	76
31	2004	Shoebox Zoo	The Storyteller (voice)	78
32	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Bradley	77
33	2005	Doctor Who	Edwin Bracewell	76
34	2005	ShakespeaRe-Told		75
35	2005	A Passion for Churches	Narrator	0
36	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
37	2008	Criminal Justice	Harry Box	76
38	2008	Little Dorrit	Mr. Meagles	78
39	2009	Law & Order: UK	George Castle	69
40	2010	The Michael Ball Show	Self	0
41	2010	Birds Britannia		0
42	2012	Dirk Gently	Professor Jericho	69
43	2012	Them From That Thing	Various	0
44	2013	Shetland	James Perez	75
45	2014	Inside No. 9	Mr. Green	80
46	2014	37 Days	Lord Morley	74
47	2014	Outlander	Ned Gowan	82
48	2014	Scot Squad	Sir Neville Archibald	70
49	2016	The Rebel	Charles	75
50	2016	Fleabag	Dad	83
51	2017	Urban Myths	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	74
52	2017	The Repair Shop	Self - Narrator	67
53	2017	The Repair Shop	Narrator (voice)	67
54	2019	Good Omens	Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch	80
55	2019	Brassic	Tony Tillerton	85
56	2019	Guilt	Roy Lynch	67
57	2020	Between the Covers	Self	55
58	2021	Britain’s Scenic Railways	Narrator	0
59	2022	Halo	Ackerson's Dad	83
60	2022	The Sandman	Dr. John Hathaway	79
61	2022	House of the Dragon	Lord Lyman Beesbury	83

Bill Paterson

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