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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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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 81% Comfort and Joy
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100% 69% Defence of the Realm
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94% 70% The Witches
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93% 91% The Killing Fields
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91% 63% A Private Function
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90% 82% The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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88% 83% Hilary and Jackie
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86% 52% Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
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82% 46% Marionette
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80% 21% Arthur's Whisky Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Arthur's Whisky 80% 21% 2024 Actor A Bear Named Wojtek 2023 Zoo Director Voice Marionette 82% 46% 2020 Mandelbaum Actor Love Sarah 62% 60% 2020 Felix Actor Rebecca 37% 39% 2020 Dr. Baker Actor Happy New Year, Colin Burstead 86% 52% 2018 Gordon Burstead Actor The Man Who Invented Christmas 79% 78% 2017 Mr. Grimsby Actor The Healer 2014 Jackie Jordan Actor The List 33% 2013 Reg Troughton Actor Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me 2011 Judge Underwood Actor Into the Storm 63% 2009 Clement Attlee Actor How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 36% 42% 2008 Richard Young Actor Gone Fishing 2008 Old Bill Actor Intervention 18% 2007 Dr. Martin Actor The Baker Street Irregulars 53% 2007 Actor Amazing Grace 68% 85% 2006 Lord Dundas Actor Miss Potter 68% 69% 2006 Rupert Potter Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream 2005 Actor Bright Young Things 66% 68% 2003 Sir James Brown Actor Doctor Zhivago 79% 2002 Actor Crush 36% 57% 2001 Gerald Actor The Whistle-Blower 2001 D.I. Neil Sleightholme Actor A History of Britain 93% 2001 Actor Swallow 2001 Angus Tighe Actor Complicity 50% 2000 Wallace Byatt Actor
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