
Bill Paterson
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
Acting (95 movies)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007

The Witches
1990

Comfort and Joy
1984

Complicity
2000

Dutch Girls
1985

Miss Potter
2006

Defence of the Realm
1986

The Return of the Musketeers
1989

Amazing Grace
2006

The Riddle of the Sands
1995

Victory
1996

The Man Who Lives with Bears
2008

Hilary and Jackie
1998

Yellowbacks
1990

Arthur's Whisky
2024

The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011

The Colour Room
2021

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009

The List
2013

Friendship's Death
1987

Creation
2009

A Bear Named Wojtek
2024

Coming Up Roses
1987

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007

The Writing on the Wall
1996

Hard Times
1994

Lie with Me
2004

The Interrogation of John
1987

Lily My Love
1987

Truly Madly Deeply
1991

Intervention
2007

The Killing Fields
1984

Clydescope
1974

Chaplin's Goliath
1996

Licking Hitler
1978

Byrne About Byrne
1988

A War on Science
2006

The Vote
2015

Chaplin
1992

One Fine Day
1979

Dad's Army
2016

A Private Function
1984

Bright Young Things
2003

Churchill's Secret
2016

Othello
2001

The Whistle-Blower
2001

Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
2012

The Cherry Orchard
1981

The Object of Beauty
1991

1929: The Great Crash
2009

Mr White Goes To Westminster
1997

Richard III
1995

Jackie McCafferty's Romance
1978

Crush
2002

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003

Sunshine
1999

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008

Hidden City
1987

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988

Just Ask for Diamond
1988

The Ploughman's Lunch
1983

Spice World
1997

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989

High-Rise
2015

The Match
1999

Heart
1999

Rag Tale
2005

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018

United Kingdom
1981

The Odd Job
1978

The Rachel Papers
1989

Wonderdate
2018

The Vanishing Army
1978

Into the Storm
2009

The Turnaround
1995

The Day Mountbatten Died
2019

Wall of Silence
1993

Marionette
2020

Love Sarah
2020

Fascism in Colour
2006

Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008

The Entity
2002

Rebecca
2020

The Thin End of the Wedge
1977

Behind Bars
2001

God on the Rocks
1992

Children of the Wicker Man
2024

The House Was Not Hungry Then
2025

The Spirit of 1926
2022

The Animal Train
1998

Gone Fishing
2008
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