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

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

20076.8

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

19887.0

High-Rise

20155.6

Miss Potter

20066.6

Love Sarah

20206.2

The Man Who Invented Christmas

20176.8

Chaplin

19927.4

The Killing Fields

19847.5

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

20086.0

Spice World

19974.9

Dad's Army

20165.0

Rebecca

20206.3

Richard III

19956.8

Creation

20096.4

Amazing Grace

20066.9

Sunshine

19996.5

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Into the Storm

20096.4

Marionette

20206.3

Bright Young Things

20036.3

Othello

20016.9

Being Stanley Baxter

2025

The Colour Room

20216.1

A Private Function

19846.4

The Match

19996.0

Dutch Girls

19854.1

Truly Madly Deeply

19916.9

Lie with Me

20045.7

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

20186.4

Crush

20025.6

Victory

19965.2

The Rachel Papers

19895.1

United Kingdom

19817.0

The Object of Beauty

19915.3

Chaplin's Goliath

19966.6

The Vote

20158.4

The Entity

20028.0

Licking Hitler

1978

Wonderdate

20186.0

Children of the Wicker Man

2024

The Ploughman's Lunch

19835.1

Churchill's Secret

20166.3

The List

20134.3

Behind Bars

2001

Intervention

20075.5

Just Ask for Diamond

19885.6

Arthur's Whisky

20245.6

The Day Mountbatten Died

201910.0

Defence of the Realm

19866.5

Complicity

20005.8

Mr White Goes To Westminster

19975.0

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

20097.3

Zanzibar

2018

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

19748.0

The Man who Crossed Hitler

20116.5

1929: The Great Crash

20097.2

The Odd Job

19785.9

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

19898.3

The Writing on the Wall

19963.6

The Cherry Orchard

19817.0

Hard Times

19947.7

Comfort and Joy

19846.6

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

20087.8

God's Chosen Car Park

1986

The White Room

2026

The Interrogation of John

1987

The House Was Not Hungry Then

20254.2

Hidden City

19875.4

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

20038.5

A War on Science

20068.0

The Thin End of the Wedge

1977

Rag Tale

20053.3

Passing Places

1973

Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me

20115.5

One Fine Day

19795.3

Heart

19995.4

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

1988

Suilven Spring

1974

The Turnaround

19955.0

Yellowbacks

19908.0

Lily My Love

1987

Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

1985

The Spirit of 1926

2022

Friendship's Death

19876.9

The Vanishing Army

1978

Coming Up Roses

19876.7

Byrne About Byrne

1988

The Animal Train

19987.0

The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema

2011

In Dreams

19928.5

Home Road Movies

20026.4

Ghosts in the Machine

2009

Tell Tale Hearts

19928.0

The Pen

1995

Gone Fishing

20088.0

The Man Who Lives with Bears

2008

Wall of Silence

19938.0

Documenting John Grierson

2014

Jackie McCafferty's Romance

1978

The Whistle-Blower

20017.8

Fascism in Colour

20067.5

A Bear Named Wojtek

20238.0

God on the Rocks

19927.0

The Story of a Recluse

1987

Chrono-Perambulator

199910.0

Hitler on Trial: The Truth Behind the Story

2015

Clydescope

19747.0

The Riddle of the Sands

1995

Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

2012

The Garden Beyond

1977