Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 03, 1945
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Credits
181 titles
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
Known For
Filmography
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
Hitler on Trial: The Truth Behind the Story
The Vote
Simon Featherstone
Scot Squad
Sir Neville Archibald
Outlander
Ned Gowan
37 Days
Lord Morley
Documenting John Grierson
Narrator
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
The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
Narrator (Voice)
Birds Britannia
The Michael Ball Show
Self
Ghosts in the Machine
Himself