Bill Paterson
Actor
Born June 3, 1945 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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
Filmography
Tomb Raider
Winston
Ladies First
Louis
Being Stanley Baxter
Self
The House Was Not Hungry Then
Father
The Repair Shop on the Road
Self - Narrator
Arthur's Whisky
Henry
Children of the Wicker Man
Self
A Bear Named Wojtek
Zoo Director (voice)
The Spirit of 1926
Family Lawyer
House of the Dragon
Lord Lyman Beesbury
The Sandman
Dr. John Hathaway
Halo
Ackerson's Dad
The Colour Room
Gordon Forsythe
Britain’s Scenic Railways
Narrator
Rebecca
Dr. Baker
Between the Covers
Self
Marionette
Dr. Mandelbaum
Love Sarah
Felix
Guilt
Roy Lynch
Brassic
Tony Tillerton
The Day Mountbatten Died
Narrator (voice)
Good Omens
Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Gordon Burstead
Wonderdate
Kolodon
Zanzibar
Mr Green
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mr. Grimsby
The Repair Shop
Narrator (voice)
Urban Myths
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fleabag
Dad
The Rebel
Charles
Churchill's Secret
Lord Moran
Dad's Army
Private Frazer
High-Rise
Mercer
The Vote
Simon Featherstone
Scot Squad
Sir Neville Archibald
Outlander
Ned Gowan
37 Days
Lord Morley
Inside No. 9
Mr. Green
The List
Reg Troughton
Shetland
James Perez
Them From That Thing
Various
Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
Narrator
Dirk Gently
Professor Jericho
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
Judge Underwood
The Man who Crossed Hitler
Kurt Ohnesorge
Creation
Dr. Gully
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Dr James Niven
Into the Storm
Clement Attlee
Law & Order: UK
George Castle
1929: The Great Crash
Narrator
Gone Fishing
Old Bill
Little Dorrit
Mr. Meagles
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Richard Young
Criminal Justice
Harry Box
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Self - 'Henry Salt'
The Man Who Lives with Bears
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Dr Watson
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Intervention
Dr. Martin
Miss Potter
Rupert Potter
Amazing Grace
Lord Dundas
The One Show
Self - Guest
A War on Science
Narrator (voice)
Fascism in Colour
Narrator (voice)
ShakespeaRe-Told
Rag Tale
Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd
Doctor Who
Edwin Bracewell
Agatha Christie's Marple
Bradley
Lie with Me
DCI Collman
Lie with Me
DCI Collman
Shoebox Zoo
The Storyteller (voice)
Sea of Souls
Dr. Douglas Monaghan
Bright Young Things
Sir James Brown
Canterbury Tales
Theo
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
DI Nick Biddiss
Trust
John Tilson
Doctor Zhivago
Alexander Maximovich Gromeko
Foyle's War
Patrick Jamieson
Battle of the Atlantic
Himself - Narrator
Crush
Gerald
Born and Bred
Harry Woolf
The Entity
Othello
Sinclair Carver
The Whistle-Blower
D.I. Neil Sleightholme
Behind Bars
Narrator
Rebel Heart
James Connolly
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Complicity
Wallace Byatt
Wives and Daughters
Mr Gibson
Sunshine
Minister of Justice
The Match
Tommy
Heart
Mr. Kreitman
Hilary and Jackie
Cello Teacher
The Animal Train
Walrus
Mr White Goes To Westminster
Ben White
Spice World
Brian
Melissa
DCI Cameron
Victory
Capt. Davidson
The Crow Road
Kenneth McHoan
The Writing on the Wall
Bull
Chaplin's Goliath
Narrator (voice)
Richard III
Sir Richard Ratcliffe
Oliver's Travels
Baxter
The Turnaround
James Webb
Sharman
James Webb
The Riddle of the Sands
Narrator
Hard Times
Stephen Blackpool
Hard Times
Stephen Blackpool
Wall of Silence
Howard Mullen
God on the Rocks
Kenneth Marsh
Chaplin
Stage Manager
Murder Most Horrid
Chief Inspector
Truly Madly Deeply
Sandy
The Object of Beauty
Victor Swayle
Yellowbacks
Alex McPherson
The Witches
Mr Jenkins
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Jordan
Screen One
PC Howard Mullen
Traffik
John Lithgow
The Rachel Papers
Gordon Highway
The Return of the Musketeers
Charles I
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Henry Salt
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Titorelli
Just Ask for Diamond
Chief Inspector Snape
Byrne About Byrne
Father/F.S. McDade
The Play on One
Alex McPherson
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Titorelli
The Story of a Recluse
The Producer
The Interrogation of John
Det. Supt. Chase
Friendship's Death
Sullivan
Lily My Love
Colin
Hidden City
Anthony
Coming Up Roses
Mr. Valentine
The Singing Detective
Dr Gibbon
ScreenPlay
Colin
Defence of the Realm
Jack Macleod
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Self
Dutch Girls
Mr Mole
The Killing Fields
Dr. MacEntire
A Private Function
Wormold
Comfort and Joy
Alan
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Ally Fraser
The Ploughman's Lunch
Lecturer
Smiley's People
Lauder Strickland
United Kingdom
Tony
The Cherry Orchard
Lopakhin
One Fine Day
Third Man in Lift
The Vanishing Army
Girling
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
Bus Conductor
The Odd Job
Sergeant Mull
Life of Shakespeare
King James I
Licking Hitler
Archie MacLean
The Thin End of the Wedge
Luke
BBC2 Play of the Week
Girling
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Various
Clydescope
Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Play for Today
Luke
Omnibus
Horizon