Nicol Williamson

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Nicol Williamson

Acting September 14, 1936

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

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".…

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Columbo

Columbo

8.1 1971 TV Show
Spawn

Spawn

5.5 1997 Movie
Excalibur

Excalibur

7.0 1981 Movie
Return to Oz

Return to Oz

6.7 1985 Movie
The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

6.3 1990 Movie
The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show

6.8 1968 TV Show
Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian

6.3 1976 Movie
The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare

6.0 1978 TV Show
Black Widow

Black Widow

6.2 1987 Movie
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl

7.0 1977 Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.3 1965 TV Show
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

6.2 1976 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2006
    One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll

    Movie

  2. 1997
    Spawn

    Movie Cogliostro

  3. 1996
    The Wind in the Willows

    Movie Badger

  4. 1993
    The Hour of the Pig

    Movie Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre

  5. 1993
    Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  6. 1990
    The Exorcist III

    Movie Father Morning

  7. 1990
    A Curious Suicide

    Movie Dr. Stephen McCullough

  8. 1990
    Chillers

    TV show Dr Stephen McCullough

  9. 1987
    Passion Flower

    Movie Albert Coskin

  10. 1987
    Black Widow

    Movie William

  11. 1986
    Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

    TV show Lord Louis Mountbatten

  12. 1985
    Return to Oz

    Movie Dr. Worley / Nome King

  13. 1985
    Christopher Columbus

    TV show Re Ferdinando

  14. 1985
    To Be Hamlet

    Movie Self

  15. 1984
    Sakharov

    Movie Malyarov

  16. 1983
    Macbeth

    Movie Macbeth

More credits
  1. 1982
    I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

    Movie Derek Bauer

  2. 1981
    Venom

    Movie Cmdr. William Bulloch

  3. 1981
    Excalibur

    Movie Merlin

  4. 1981
    The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie

    Movie Self

  5. 1979
    The Human Factor

    Movie Maurice Castle

  6. 1978
    The BBC Television Shakespeare

    TV show Macbeth

  7. 1978
    The Word

    TV show Maertin de Vroome

  8. 1978
    The Cheap Detective

    Movie Colonel Schlissel

  9. 1977
    The Goodbye Girl

    Movie Oliver Fry (uncredited)

  10. 1976
    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

    Movie Sherlock Holmes

  11. 1976
    Robin and Marian

    Movie Little John

  12. 1975
    The Wilby Conspiracy

    Movie Major Horn

  13. 1974
    I Know What I Meant

    Movie Richard Nixon

  14. 1972
    The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

    Movie Arturo Ui

  15. 1972
    The Monk

    Movie The Duke of Talamur

  16. 1972
    The Jerusalem File

    Movie Professor Lang

  17. 1971
    Film '72

    TV show Self

  18. 1971
    Columbo

    TV show Eric Mason

  19. 1970
    The Reckoning

    Movie Michael Marler

  20. 1969
    Hamlet

    Movie Hamlet / King Hamlet

  21. 1969
    Laughter in the Dark

    Movie Sir Edward More

  22. 1968
    Inadmissible Evidence

    Movie Bill Maitland

  23. 1968
    The Dick Cavett Show

    TV show Self - Guest

  24. 1968
    The Bofors Gun

    Movie Gunner O'Rourke