Birthday
1945/06/03 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Also know as
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Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor.
(2007) The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
(1990) The Witches
as Mr Jenkins
(1984) Comfort and Joy
as Alan
(2000) Complicity
as Wallace Byatt
(1985) Dutch Girls
as Mr Mole
(2006) Miss Potter
as Rupert Potter
(1986) Defence of the Realm
as Jack Macleod
(1989) The Return of the Musketeers
as Charles I
(2006) Amazing Grace
as Lord Dundas
(2009) Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself
(1995) The Riddle of the Sands
as Narrator
(1996) Victory
as Capt. Davidson
(2008) The Man Who Lives with Bears
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1998) Hilary and Jackie
as Cello Teacher
(1990) Yellowbacks
as Alex McPherson
(2014) Documenting John Grierson
as Narrator
(2024) Arthur's Whisky
as Henry
(2011) The Man who Crossed Hitler
as Kurt Ohnesorge
(2021) The Colour Room
as Gordon Forsythe
(2009) Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as Dr James Niven
(2013) The List
as Reg Troughton
(2011) Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
as Judge Underwood
(1987) Friendship's Death
as Sullivan
(2009) Creation
as Dr. Gully
(2024) A Bear Named Wojtek
as Zoo Director (voice)
(1987) Coming Up Roses
as Mr. Valentine
(1974) The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
as Various
(2007) Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Dr Watson
(1996) The Writing on the Wall
as Bull
(1994) Hard Times
as Stephen Blackpool
(2004) Lie with Me
as DCI Collman
(1987) The Interrogation of John
as Det. Supt. Chase
(1987) Lily My Love
as Colin
(1991) Truly Madly Deeply
as Sandy
(2007) Intervention
as Dr. Martin
(1984) The Killing Fields
as Dr. MacEntire
(1974) Clydescope
as Model Boat Show Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
(1996) Chaplin's Goliath
as Narrator (voice)
(1978) Licking Hitler
as Archie MacLean
(1988) Byrne About Byrne
as Father/F.S. McDade
(2006) A War on Science
as Narrator (voice)
(1986) God's Chosen Car Park
as Victor Rosen
(2015) The Vote
as Simon Featherstone
(1992) Chaplin
as Stage Manager
(1979) One Fine Day
as Third Man in Lift
(2016) Dad's Army
as Private Frazer
(1984) A Private Function
as Wormold
(2003) Bright Young Things
as Sir James Brown
(2016) Churchill's Secret
as Lord Moran
(2001) Othello
as Sinclair Carver
(2001) The Whistle-Blower
as D.I. Neil Sleightholme
(2012) Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
as Narrator
(1981) The Cherry Orchard
as Lopakhin
The White Room
as Jackie Jordan
(1991) The Object of Beauty
as Victor Swayle
(2009) 1929: The Great Crash
as Narrator
(1992) In Dreams
as Dr Gold
(1997) Mr White Goes To Westminster
as Ben White
(1995) Richard III
as Sir Richard Ratcliffe
(1978) Jackie McCafferty's Romance
as Bus Conductor
(2002) Crush
as Gerald
(2003) Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as DI Nick Biddiss
(1999) Sunshine
as Minister of Justice
(1988) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as Henry Salt
(2008) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Richard Young
(1987) Hidden City
as Anthony
(1988) Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
as Titorelli
(1988) Just Ask for Diamond
as Chief Inspector Snape
(1983) The Ploughman's Lunch
as Lecturer
(1997) Spice World
as Brian
(2015) High-Rise
as Mercer
(1989) Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
as Jordan
(1999) The Match
as Tommy
(1999) Heart
as Mr. Kreitman
(2005) Rag Tale
as Tulloch 'Lucky' Lloyd
(2017) The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mr. Grimsby
(2005) Kingdom of Heaven
as Bishop (director's cut)
(2018) Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Gordon Burstead
(1981) United Kingdom
as Tony
(1978) The Odd Job
as Sergeant Mull
(1989) The Rachel Papers
as Gordon Highway
(2018) Wonderdate
as Kolodon
(1978) The Vanishing Army
as Girling
(2009) Into the Storm
as Clement Attlee
(1995) The Turnaround
as James Webb
(1977) The Garden Beyond
as Jim Finlayson
(1999) Chrono-Perambulator
as Professor Teddy Knox
(2019) The Day Mountbatten Died
as Narrator (voice)
(1992) Tell Tale Hearts
as Anthony Steadman
(1993) Wall of Silence
as Howard Mullen
(2020) Marionette
as Dr. Mandelbaum
(2020) Love Sarah
as Felix
(1985) Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
as Self
(2006) Fascism in Colour
as Narrator (voice)
(2008) The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
as Self - 'Henry Salt'
(2002) The Entity
as ---
(2020) Rebecca
as Dr. Baker
(1977) The Thin End of the Wedge
as Luke
(2001) Behind Bars
as Narrator
(2002) Home Road Movies
as Father
(1992) God on the Rocks
as Kenneth Marsh
(2024) Children of the Wicker Man
as Self
(1995) The Pen
as ---
(2011) The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
as Narrator (Voice)
(2025) The House Was Not Hungry Then
as Dad
(1991) Murder Most Horrid
as Chief Inspector
(2000) The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
as ---
(1986) The Singing Detective
as Dr. Gibbon
(2006) The One Show
as Self - Guest
(1964) Horizon
as ---
(2002) Foyle's War
as ---
(2019) Good Omens
as Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch
(2009) Law & Order: UK
as George Castle
(2008) Criminal Justice
as Harry Box
(1999) Wives and Daughters
as Mr. Gibson
(2002) Doctor Zhivago
as Alexander Gromyko
(2008) Little Dorrit
as ---
(2005) ShakespeaRe-Told
as ---
(1989) Traffik
as John Lithgow
(1995) Oliver's Travels
as Baxter
(2004) Sea of Souls
as Dr. Douglas Monaghan
(1982) Smiley's People
as Lauder Strickland
(2001) Rebel Heart
as James Connolly
(1978) Life of Shakespeare
as King James I
(1994) Junior Masterchef
as ---
(1997) Melissa
as DCI Cameron
(2010) The Michael Ball Show
as Self
(2005) Doctor Who
as Edwin Bracewell
(2010) Birds Britannia
as ---
(2021) Britain’s Scenic Railways
as Narrator
(2014) 37 Days
as Lord Morley
(1996) The Crow Road
as Kenneth McHoan
(2002) Born and Bred
as Harry Woolf
(2003) Canterbury Tales
as Theo
(2014) Outlander
as Ned Gowan
(1995) Sharman
as James Webb
(2013) Shetland
as James Perez
(1978) Will Shakespeare
as ---
(2004) Shoebox Zoo
as The Storyteller (voice)
(1997) Arthouse
as Self
(2016) Fleabag
as Dad
(2020) Between the Covers
as Self
(2017) Urban Myths
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(1983) Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Ally Fraser
(2005) A Passion for Churches
as Narrator
(2022) The Sandman
as Dr. John Hathaway
(2022) House of the Dragon
as Lord Lyman Beesbury
(2022) Halo
as Ackerson's Dad
(2019) Brassic
as Tony Tillerton
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Bradley
(2017) The Repair Shop
as Self - Narrator
(2012) Them From That Thing
as Various
(2014) Scot Squad
as Sir Neville Archibald
(2017) The Repair Shop
as Narrator (voice)
(2014) Inside No. 9
as Mr. Green
(2002) Battle of the Atlantic
as Himself - Narrator
(1970) Play for Today
as Luke
(1988) The Play on One
as Alex McPherson
(1988) The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Titorelli
(2016) The Rebel
as Charles
(1994) Hard Times
as Stephen Blackpool
(2019) Guilt
as Roy Lynch
(2012) Dirk Gently
as Professor Jericho
(1989) A Wanted Man
as Det. Supt. Chase