Bill Paterson
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-06-03
- Place of birth:
- Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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
Known For
Filmography
Children of The Wicker Man
Kill Jackie
Ladies First
Being Stanley Baxter
The House Was Not Hungry Then
The Repair Shop on the Road
Arthur's Whisky
A Bear Named Wojtek
The Spirit of 1926
House of the Dragon
The Sandman
Halo
The Colour Room
Britain’s Scenic Railways
Rebecca
Between the Covers
Marionette
Love Sarah
Guilt
Brassic
The Day Mountbatten Died
Good Omens
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Wonderdate
Zanzibar
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Repair Shop
Urban Myths
Fleabag
The Rebel
Churchill's Secret
Dad's Army
High-Rise
Hitler on Trial: The Truth Behind the Story
The Vote
Scot Squad
Outlander
37 Days
Documenting John Grierson
Inside No. 9
The List
Shetland
Them From That Thing
Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
Dirk Gently
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
The Man who Crossed Hitler
The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
Birds Britannia
The Michael Ball Show
Ghosts in the Machine
Creation
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Into the Storm
Law & Order: UK
1929: The Great Crash
Gone Fishing
Little Dorrit
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Criminal Justice
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
The Man Who Lives with Bears
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Amazing Grace
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Intervention
Miss Potter
The One Show
A War on Science
Fascism in Colour
A Passion for Churches
ShakespeaRe-Told
Rag Tale
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lie with Me
Shoebox Zoo
Sea of Souls
Bright Young Things
Canterbury Tales
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Trust
Doctor Zhivago
Foyle's War
Battle of the Atlantic
Crush
Home Road Movies
Born and Bred
The Entity
Othello
Swallow
The Whistle-Blower
Behind Bars
Rebel Heart
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Complicity
Chrono-Perambulator
Wives and Daughters
Sunshine
The Match
Heart
Hilary and Jackie
The Animal Train
Mr White Goes To Westminster
Spice World
Arthouse
Melissa
Victory
The Crow Road
The Writing on the Wall
Chaplin's Goliath
Richard III
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley
The Pen
Oliver's Travels
The Turnaround
Sharman
The Riddle of the Sands
Junior Masterchef
Hard Times
Funky Black Shorts
Wall of Silence
God on the Rocks
In Dreams
Chaplin
Tell Tale Hearts
Murder Most Horrid
Truly Madly Deeply
The Object of Beauty
Shrinks
Yellowbacks
The Witches
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Screen One
Traffik
The Rachel Papers
The Return of the Musketeers
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Just Ask for Diamond
Byrne About Byrne
The Play on One
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
The Story of a Recluse
The Interrogation of John
Friendship's Death
Lily My Love
Hidden City
Coming Up Roses
God's Chosen Car Park
The Singing Detective
ScreenPlay
Defence of the Realm
Boon
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Dutch Girls
The Killing Fields
A Private Function
Comfort and Joy
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
The Ploughman's Lunch
Smiley's People
United Kingdom
The Cherry Orchard
One Fine Day
The Vanishing Army
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
The Odd Job
Scottish Playbill
Licking Hitler
The Thin End of the Wedge
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Garden Beyond
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Clydescope
Suilven Spring
Passing Places
Play for Today
Omnibus
Horizon
The White Room
Just Dandy
Tomb Raider
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo