Nicol Williamson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-09-14 (75 years old)

Deathday

2011-12-16

Place of Birth

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Nicol Williamson

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Nicol Williamson was a British actor. He was once described by playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was also described by Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as "the Hamlet of his generation" during the late 1960s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicol Williamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1985

1997

Spawn

as Cogliostro

1976

Robin and Marian

as Little John

1963

1981

Excalibur

as Merlin

1981

Venom

as Cmdr. William Bulloch

1990

The Exorcist III

as Father Morning

1975

1985

Return to Oz

as Dr. Worley / Nome King

1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

as Sherlock Holmes

1969

Hamlet

as Hamlet / King Hamlet

1979

The Human Factor

as Maurice Castle

1987

Black Widow

as William McCrory

1968

1993

The Hour of the Pig

as Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre

1970

The Reckoning

as Michael Marler

1983

Macbeth

as Macbeth

1987

Passion Flower

as Albert Coskin

1968

Inadmissible Evidence

as Bill Maitland

1972

The Jerusalem File

as Professor Lang

1972

The Monk

as The Duke of Talamur

1984

Sakharov

as Malyarov

1965

1993

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1968

The Bofors Gun

as Gunner O'Rourke

1978

The Cheap Detective

as Colonel Schlissel

1977

The Goodbye Girl

as Oliver Fry (uncredited)

1969

Laughter in the Dark

as Sir Edward More

1974

I Know What I Meant

as Richard Nixon

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