Bill Paterson

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

Movies

114

Born: June 3, 1945
From: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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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

Works

114 films

Ladies First

20266.0

The Witches

19906.9

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

19887.0

High-Rise

20155.6

Miss Potter

20066.6

Love Sarah

20206.2

Chaplin

19927.4

The Killing Fields

19847.5

The Man Who Invented Christmas

20176.8

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

20086.0

Spice World

19974.9

Rebecca

20206.3

Richard III

19956.8

Dad's Army

20165.0

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

20076.8

Creation

20096.4

Sunshine

19996.5

Amazing Grace

20066.9

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

Into the Storm

20096.4

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Dutch Girls

19854.1

Bright Young Things

20036.3

The Rachel Papers

19895.1

The Match

19996.0

Marionette

20206.3

The Colour Room

20216.1

A Private Function

19846.4

Being Stanley Baxter

2025

Othello

20016.9

The Object of Beauty

19915.3

Truly Madly Deeply

19916.9

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

20186.4

Lie with Me

20045.7

Behind Bars

2001

Licking Hitler

1978

Arthur's Whisky

20245.6

Intervention

20075.5

Crush

20025.6

Victory

19965.2

Churchill's Secret

20166.3

Chaplin's Goliath

19966.6

Children of the Wicker Man

2024

The Ploughman's Lunch

19835.1

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

20038.5

The Vote

20158.4

The Day Mountbatten Died

201910.0

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

19898.3

Suilven Spring

1974

Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me

20115.5

The Cherry Orchard

19817.0

The Entity

20028.0

United Kingdom

19817.0

The List

20134.3

Defence of the Realm

19866.5

Rag Tale

20053.3

Wonderdate

20186.0

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

20097.3

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

19748.0

1929: The Great Crash

20097.2

The Odd Job

19785.9

Comfort and Joy

19846.6

A War on Science

20068.0

Hard Times

19947.7

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

20087.8

Just Ask for Diamond

19885.6

The Man who Crossed Hitler

20116.5

Hidden City

19875.4

The Vanishing Army

1978

Mr White Goes To Westminster

19975.0

Zanzibar

2018

The White Room

2026

One Fine Day

19795.3

Lily My Love

1987

Passing Places

1973

The Writing on the Wall

19963.6

Complicity

20005.8

Heart

19995.4

God's Chosen Car Park

1986

The Thin End of the Wedge

1977

The House Was Not Hungry Then

20254.2

Coming Up Roses

19876.7

Gone Fishing

20088.0

Home Road Movies

20026.4

Friendship's Death

19876.9

Byrne About Byrne

1988

The Spirit of 1926

2022

The Animal Train

19987.0

Documenting John Grierson

2014

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

1988

Fascism in Colour

20067.5

The Whistle-Blower

20017.8

The Interrogation of John

1987

Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

1985

The Turnaround

19955.0

Yellowbacks

19908.0

Ghosts in the Machine

2009

The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema

2011

Tell Tale Hearts

19928.0

God on the Rocks

19927.0

Wall of Silence

19938.0

The Man Who Lives with Bears

2008

Jackie McCafferty's Romance

1978

A Bear Named Wojtek

20238.0

The Story of a Recluse

1987

In Dreams

19928.5

The Pen

1995

Chrono-Perambulator

199910.0

Hitler on Trial: The Truth Behind the Story

2015

The Riddle of the Sands

1995

Clydescope

19747.0

Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

2012

The Garden Beyond

1977