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
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-06-03
Place of birth
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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Cast
The Witches
1990
6.94
Comfort and Joy
1984
6.50
Complicity
2000
5.60
Dutch Girls
1985
3.57
Miss Potter
2006
6.63
Defence of the Realm
1986
6.40
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
6.20
Amazing Grace
2006
6.90
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
0.00
The Riddle of the Sands
1995
0.00
Victory
1996
4.80
The Man Who Lives with Bears
2008
0.00
Hilary and Jackie
1998
6.48
Yellowbacks
1990
7.00
Documenting John Grierson
2014
0.00
Arthur's Whisky
2024
5.50
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
6.50
The Colour Room
2021
6.18
The List
2013
4.34
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
2011
5.50
Friendship's Death
1987
6.74
Creation
2009
6.41
A Bear Named Wojtek
2024
8.00
Coming Up Roses
1987
6.60
The Writing on the Wall
1996
2.30
Hard Times
1994
7.00
Lie with Me
2004
4.50
The Interrogation of John
1987
0.00
Lily My Love
1987
0.00
Truly Madly Deeply
1991
6.92
Intervention
2007
1.00
The Killing Fields
1984
7.46
Clydescope
1974
7.00
Chaplin's Goliath
1996
6.50
Licking Hitler
1978
0.00
Byrne About Byrne
1988
0.00
A War on Science
2006
8.00
God's Chosen Car Park
1986
0.00
The Vote
2015
8.40
Chaplin
1992
7.40
One Fine Day
1979
4.50
Dad's Army
2016
5.00
A Private Function
1984
6.39
Bright Young Things
2003
6.24
Churchill's Secret
2016
6.30
Othello
2001
6.60
The Whistle-Blower
2001
8.00
The Cherry Orchard
1981
0.00
The White Room
0.00
The Object of Beauty
1991
5.30
1929: The Great Crash
2009
7.20
In Dreams
1992
7.00
Mr White Goes To Westminster
1997
2.00
Richard III
1995
6.70
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
1978
0.00
Crush
2002
5.63
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
0.00
Sunshine
1999
6.46
Hidden City
1987
5.10
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
0.00
Just Ask for Diamond
1988
4.30
The Ploughman's Lunch
1983
4.80
Spice World
1997
4.86
High-Rise
2015
5.62
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989
7.50
The Match
1999
5.80
Heart
1999
5.17
Rag Tale
2005
3.00
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
6.85
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
6.40
United Kingdom
1981
0.00
The Odd Job
1978
5.70
The Rachel Papers
1989
4.96
Wonderdate
2018
6.00
The Vanishing Army
1978
0.00
Into the Storm
2009
6.30
The Turnaround
1995
4.00
The Garden Beyond
1977
0.00
Chrono-Perambulator
1999
0.00
The Day Mountbatten Died
2019
10.00
Tell Tale Hearts
1992
0.00
Wall of Silence
1993
0.00
Marionette
2020
6.30
Love Sarah
2020
6.20
Fascism in Colour
2006
7.50
The Entity
2002
8.00
Rebecca
2020
6.30
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
0.00
Behind Bars
2001
0.00
Home Road Movies
2002
6.20
God on the Rocks
1992
0.00
Children of the Wicker Man
2024
0.00
The Pen
1995
0.00
The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
2011
0.00
The House Was Not Hungry Then
2025
3.80
The Spirit of 1926
2022
0.00
The Animal Train
1998
7.00
Gone Fishing
2008
8.00
Suilven Spring
1974
0.00
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
0.00