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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