Bill Paterson

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Acting

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

• Ladies First (2026)
• Being Stanley Baxter (2025)
• The House Was Not Hungry Then (2025)
• Arthur's Whisky (2024)
• Children of the Wicker Man (2024)
• A Bear Named Wojtek (2023)
• The Spirit of 1926 (2022)
• The Colour Room (2021)
• Rebecca (2020)
• Marionette (2020)
• Love Sarah (2020)
• The Day Mountbatten Died (2019)
• Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
• Wonderdate (2018)
• Zanzibar (2018)
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
• Churchill's Secret (2016)
• Dad's Army (2016)
• High-Rise (2015)
• Hitler on Trial: The Truth Behind the Story (2015)
• The Vote (2015)
• Documenting John Grierson (2014)
• The List (2013)
• Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games (2012)
• Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me (2011)
• The Man who Crossed Hitler (2011)
• The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema (2011)
• Ghosts in the Machine (2009)
• Creation (2009)
• Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009)
• Into the Storm (2009)
• 1929: The Great Crash (2009)
• Gone Fishing (2008)
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
• The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen (2008)
• The Man Who Lives with Bears (2008)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
• Amazing Grace (2007)
• The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
• Intervention (2007)
• Miss Potter (2006)
• A War on Science (2006)
• Fascism in Colour (2006)
• Rag Tale (2005)
• Bright Young Things (2003)
• Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003)
• Crush (2002)
• Home Road Movies (2002)
• The Entity (2002)
• Othello (2001)
• The Whistle-Blower (2001)
• Behind Bars (2001)
• Complicity (2000)
• Chrono-Perambulator (1999)
• Sunshine (1999)
• The Match (1999)
• Heart (1999)
• Hilary and Jackie (1998)
• The Animal Train (1998)
• Mr White Goes To Westminster (1997)
• Spice World (1997)
• Victory (1996)
• The Writing on the Wall (1996)
• Chaplin's Goliath (1996)
• Richard III (1995)
• The Pen (1995)
• The Turnaround (1995)
• The Riddle of the Sands (1995)
• Wall of Silence (1993)
• God on the Rocks (1992)
• In Dreams (1992)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Tell Tale Hearts (1992)
• Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
• The Object of Beauty (1991)
• Yellowbacks (1990)
• The Witches (1990)
• Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
• The Rachel Papers (1989)
• The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
• Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' (1988)
• Just Ask for Diamond (1988)
• Byrne About Byrne (1988)
• The Story of a Recluse (1987)
• The Interrogation of John (1987)
• Friendship's Death (1987)
• Lily My Love (1987)
• Hidden City (1987)
• Coming Up Roses (1987)
• God's Chosen Car Park (1986)
• Defence of the Realm (1986)
• Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman (1985)
• Dutch Girls (1985)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• A Private Function (1984)
• Comfort and Joy (1984)
• The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
• United Kingdom (1981)
• The Cherry Orchard (1981)
• One Fine Day (1979)
• The Vanishing Army (1978)
• Jackie McCafferty's Romance (1978)
• The Odd Job (1978)
• Licking Hitler (1978)
• The Thin End of the Wedge (1977)
• The Garden Beyond (1977)
• The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)
• Clydescope (1974)
• Suilven Spring (1974)
• Passing Places (1973)
• The White Room