Bill Paterson
Acting
Biography
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
Born: June 3, 1945
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Known For
The Day Mountbatten Died
On 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten, great uncle to Prince Charles, was blown up at sea by the IRA off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. Three others were killed on the boat that day, including two teenage boys. Later that afternoon, in a second strike, the IRA killed 18 British soldiers, across the border in Northern Ireland. Forty years on, this is the story of that remarkable Bank Holiday Monday – movingly told by those directly affected by it.
Will Shakespeare
Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times, was a 1978 historical drama series created and written by John Mortimer. Broadcast in six parts, the series is a dramatisation of the life and times of the great poet William Shakespeare played by Tim Curry, and was co-produced by Lew Grade's ATV and RAI and distributed internationally by ITC. The two production companies had collaborated successfully before on Jesus of Nazareth the previous year.
Born and Bred
In the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service.
The Vote
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.
Brassic
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
House of the Dragon
The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.
Fleabag
A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.
Halo
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
Outlander
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Inside No. 9
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Filmography
as Self
as Father
as Henry
as Self
as Zoo Director (voice)
as Family Lawyer
as Lord Lyman Beesbury
as Dr. John Hathaway
as Ackerson's Dad
as Gordon Forsythe
as Narrator
as Dr. Baker
as Self
as Dr. Mandelbaum
as Felix
as Roy Lynch
as Tony Tillerton
as Narrator (voice)
as Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch
as Gordon Burstead
as Kolodon
as Mr. Grimsby
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Dad
as Charles
as Lord Moran
as Private Frazer
as Mercer
as Simon Featherstone
as Sir Neville Archibald
as Ned Gowan
as Lord Morley
as Mr. Green
as Reg Troughton
as James Perez
as Various
as Professor Jericho
as Judge Underwood
as Kurt Ohnesorge
as Dr. Gully
as Dr James Niven
as Clement Attlee
as George Castle
as Narrator
as Old Bill
as Mr. Meagles
as Richard Young
as Harry Box
as Self - 'Henry Salt'
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Dr Watson
as Dr. Martin
as Rupert Potter
as Lord Dundas
as Self - Guest
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator
as Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd
as Edwin Bracewell
as Bradley
as DCI Collman
as The Storyteller (voice)
as Dr. Douglas Monaghan
as Sir James Brown
as Theo
as DI Nick Biddiss
as Alexander Gromyko
as Patrick Jamieson
as Himself - Narrator
as Gerald
as Harry Woolf
as Sinclair Carver
as D.I. Neil Sleightholme
as Narrator
as James Connolly
as Wallace Byatt
as Mr. Gibson
as Minister of Justice
as Tommy
as Mr. Kreitman
as Cello Teacher
as Walrus
as Ben White
as Brian
as DCI Cameron
as Capt. Davidson
as Kenneth McHoan
as Bull
as Narrator (voice)
as Sir Richard Ratcliffe
as Baxter
as James Webb
as James Webb
as Narrator
as Stephen Blackpool
as Stephen Blackpool
as Howard Mullen
as Kenneth Marsh
as Stage Manager
as Chief Inspector
as Sandy
as Victor Swayle
as Alex McPherson
as Mr Jenkins
as Jordan
as Det. Supt. Chase
as John Lithgow
as Gordon Highway
as Charles I
as Henry Salt
as Titorelli
as Chief Inspector Snape
as Father/F.S. McDade
as Alex McPherson
as Titorelli
as Det. Supt. Chase
as Sullivan
as Colin
as Anthony
as Mr. Valentine
as Dr Gibbon
as Jack Macleod
as Mr Mole
as Dr. MacEntire
as Wormold
as Alan
as Ally Fraser
as Lecturer
as Lauder Strickland
as Tony
as Lopakhin
as Third Man in Lift
as Girling
as Bus Conductor
as Sergeant Mull
as King James I
as Archie MacLean
as Luke
as Girling
as Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
as Luke
as Archie MacLean
as Winston