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Bill Paterson
Highest Rated: 100% Comfort and Joy (1984)
Lowest Rated: 35% Spice World (1997)
Birthday: Jun 3, 1945
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Stage, TV and film performer who began his career with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre and was a founding member of the radical 7:84 company (the name derives from the fact that 7 percent of the population of Britain own 84 percent of the country's wealth). Paterson first gained attention on screen for his role as a lonely D.J. in Bill Forsyth's "Comfort and Joy" (1984) and has since turned in finely controlled performances in films by Roland Joffe, Hugh Hudson and Malcolm Mowbray.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | 14% | Arthur's Whisky | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 75% | 41% | Marionette | Mandelbaum (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 62% | 61% | Love Sarah | Felix (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 38% | 38% | Rebecca | Dr. Baker (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 86% | 54% | Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | Gordon Burstead (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 79% | 78% | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mr. Grimsby (Character) | $5.7M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Healer | Jackie Jordan (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The List | Reg Troughton (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me | Judge Underwood (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Into the Storm | Clement Attlee (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 37% | 42% | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Richard Young (Character) | $2.8M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gone Fishing | Old Bill (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Intervention | Dr. Martin (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Baker Street Irregulars | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 68% | 85% | Amazing Grace | Lord Dundas (Character) | $21.2M | 2006 |
| 69% | 68% | Miss Potter | Rupert Potter (Character) | $3.0M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 66% | 68% | Bright Young Things | Sir James Brown (Character) | $931.8K | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Doctor Zhivago | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 36% | 57% | Crush | Gerald (Character) | $1.1M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Whistle-Blower | D.I. Neil Sleightholme (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swallow | Angus Tighe (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | A History of Britain | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Complicity | Wallace Byatt (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 74% | 80% | Sunshine | Minister of Justice (Character) | $6.1M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | The Match | Tommy (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heart | Mr. Kreitman (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 88% | 83% | Hilary and Jackie | Cello Teacher (Character) | $4.9M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Victory | Capt. Davidson (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 35% | 45% | Spice World | Brian (Character) | $29.6M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Crow Road | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Turnaround | James Webb (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Hard Times | Stephen Blackpool (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation Schmetterling | Bull (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Writing on the Wall | Bull (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 77% | 36% | The Object of Beauty | Victor Swayle (Character) | $201.6K | 1991 |
| 76% | 87% | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Sandy (Character) | $1.5M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God on the Rocks | Mr. Marsh (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 94% | 70% | The Witches | Mr. Jenkins (Character) | $8.7M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale | Jordan (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 90% | 82% | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Henry Salt (Character) | $8.6M | 1989 |
| 45% | 53% | The Rachel Papers | Gordon Highway (Character) | $154.6K | 1989 |
| 60% | 34% | The Return of the Musketeers | Charles I (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Traffik | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Interrogation of John | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Hidden City | Anthony (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Dutch Girls | Mole (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Friendship's Death | Sullivan (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Coming Up Roses | Mr. Valentine (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 100% | 69% | Defence of the Realm | Jack Macleod (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 90% | 62% | A Private Function | Morris Wormold the Meat Inspector (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 93% | 91% | The Killing Fields | Dr. MacEntire (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 100% | 81% | Comfort and Joy | Alan (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Army | Unknown (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Odd Job | Sergeant Mull (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Repair Shop | Narrator | 2017-2024 |
| 93% | 82% | House of the Dragon | Lord Lyman Beesbury (Character) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | Brassic | Tony Tillerton (Character) | 2020-2022 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland and Beyond | Self | 2021 |
| 96% | 68% | Guilt | Roy Lynch (Character) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order: UK | George Castle (Character) | 2009-2011 2019 |
| 100% | 93% | Fleabag | Dad (Character) | 2016 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Urban Myths | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Character) | 2018 |
| 100% | 90% | Inside No. 9 | Mr Green (Character) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmers' Country Showdown | Narrator | 2017 |
| 90% | 87% | Outlander |
Ned Gowan (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2014-2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 37 Days | Lord Morley (Character) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Town Taking on China | Narrator | 2012 |
| 90% | 65% | Doctor Who | Bracewell (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Criminal Justice | Harry Box (Character) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sea of Souls | Unknown (Character) | 2004-2006 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Foyle's War | Patrick Jamieson (Character) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born and Bred | Unknown (Character) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Canterbury Tales | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wives and Daughters | Mr Gibson (Character) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mystery! | Unknown (Character) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Singing Detective | Dr Gibbon (Character) | 1986 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | Smiley's People | Lauder Strickland (Character) | 1982 |