Nicol Williamson
Highest Rated: 80% The Advocate (1993)
Lowest Rated: 17% Spawn (1997)
Birthday: Sep 14, 1936
Birthplace: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Nicol Williamson never achieved the household name status of Brando or Olivier, but by many critics' appraisals, his talents equaled the greats of his own or any generation. A native of Scotland, Williamson established himself as a force of a new generation of British actors in 1964 as the star of West End production of "Inadmissable Evidence," going on to take the show to Broadway, a Tony nomination and the starring role in the 1968 film adaptation. He delivered what many regarded as the definitive "Hamlet" of his time in a U.K. restaging that went on to play Broadway. He again wowed live audiences and critics with his turns in "Macbeth," "Uncle Vanya" and "Rex" and shone in films such as "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976) and "The Human Factor" (1979), not to mention his signature turn as Merlin in the 1981 film adaptation of the Arthurian cycle, "Excalibur" (1981). He would find work in major television events, foremost ITV's 1986 Mountbatten biopic, and do two disparate Broadway and West End productions playing the legendary John Barrymore.
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Nicol Williamson
Filmography
Movies
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17% |
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Spawn | Cogliostro (Character) | $55.0M | 1997 |
75% |
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The Wind in the Willows | Borsuk (Character) | $72.8K | 1996 |
80% |
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The Advocate | Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre (Character) | $231.0K | 1993 |
59% |
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The Exorcist III | Father Morning (Character) | $25.0M | 1990 |
54% |
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Black Widow | William McCrory (Character) | $22.7M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passion Flower | Albert Coskin (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | Lord Louis Mountbatten (Character) | - | 1986 |
58% |
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Return to Oz |
Dr. Worley/ |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sakharov | Malyarov (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Macbeth | Macbeth (Character) | - | 1983 |
33% |
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Derek Bauer (Character) | - | 1982 |
72% |
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Excalibur | Merlin (Character) | - | 1981 |
43% |
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Venom | Cmdr. William Bulloch (Character) | - | 1981 |
33% |
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The Human Factor | Maurice Castle (Character) | - | 1979 |
53% |
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The Cheap Detective | Colonel Schlissel (Character) | - | 1978 |
80% |
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The Goodbye Girl | Oliver Fry (Character) | - | 1977 |
72% |
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Sherlock Holmes (Character) | - | 1976 |
73% |
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Robin and Marian | Little John (Character) | - | 1976 |
67% |
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The Wilby Conspiracy | Major Horn (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jerusalem File | Professor Lang (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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Hamlet | Hamlet (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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The Reckoning | Michael Marler (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laughter in the Dark | Sir Edward More (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of Mice and Men | Lennie (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bofors Gun | O'Rourke (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inadmissible Evidence | Bill Maitland (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christopher Columbus | King Ferdinand (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Dr. Eric Mason (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |