Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
1936-09-14
Place of Birth
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Nicol Williamson
Biography
Thomas Nicol Williamson (September 14, 1936 - December 16, 2011) 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.
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Known For
Acting History
2006
One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll
1997Spawn as Cogliostro
1996The Wind in the Willows as Badger
1993The Hour of the Pig as Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre
1993Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1990The Exorcist III as Father Morning
1987Passion Flower as Albert Coskin
1987Black Widow as William McCrory
1986Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy as Lord Louis Mountbatten
1985Return to Oz as Dr. Worley / Nome King
1985Christopher Columbus as Re Ferdinando
1985To Be Hamlet as Self
1984Sakharov as Malyarov
1983Macbeth as Macbeth
1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can as Derek Bauer
1981Venom as Cmdr. William Bulloch
1981Excalibur as Merlin
1979The Human Factor as Maurice Castle
1978The Word as Maertin de Vroome
1978The Cheap Detective as Colonel Schlissel
1977The Goodbye Girl as Oliver Fry (uncredited)
1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Sherlock Holmes
1976Robin and Marian as Little John
1975The Wilby Conspiracy as Major Horn
1974I Know What I Meant as Richard Nixon
1972The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui as Arturo Ui
1972The Monk as The Duke of Talamur
1972The Jerusalem File as Professor Lang
1971Columbo as Eric Mason
1970The Reckoning as Michael Marler
1969Hamlet as Hamlet / King Hamlet
1969Laughter in the Dark as Sir Edward More
1968Inadmissible Evidence as Bill Maitland
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1968The Bofors Gun as Gunner O'Rourke
1968Of Mice and Men as Lennie
1965Horror of Darkness as Robin
1965The Day of Ragnarok
1964Six
1963The Six-Sided Triangle as The Lover