Bill Paterson
Biography
William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor. Throughout his career he has appeared regularly in radio drama and provided the narration for a large number of documentaries. Paterson has appeared in films and television series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Traffik (1989), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The Witches (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019), Brassic (2020) and House of the Dragon (2022). He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Scottish BAFTAs. William Tulloch Paterson was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1945. Paterson was raised in Dennistoun by his father, a plumber, and his mother, a hairdresser. He states that his interest in acting began with a school trip to the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals in 1961. However, after school he chose to initially pursue a career based on an interest in architecture and spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before deciding to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Movies (99)
Ladies First
2026
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
The House Was Not Hungry Then
2025
Arthur's Whisky
2024
Children of the Wicker Man
2024
A Bear Named Wojtek
2023
The Spirit of 1926
2022
The Colour Room
2021
Rebecca
2020
Marionette
2020
Love Sarah
2020
The Day Mountbatten Died
2019
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
Wonderdate
2018
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Churchill's Secret
2016
Dad's Army
2016
High-Rise
2015
The Vote
2015
The List
2013
Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
2012
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
2011
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
Creation
2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
Into the Storm
2009
1929: The Great Crash
2009
Gone Fishing
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008
The Man Who Lives with Bears
2008
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Intervention
2007
Miss Potter
2006
Amazing Grace
2006
A War on Science
2006
Fascism in Colour
2006
Rag Tale
2005
Lie with Me
2004
Bright Young Things
2003
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
Crush
2002
The Entity
2002
Othello
2001
The Whistle-Blower
2001
Behind Bars
2001
Complicity
2000
Sunshine
1999
The Match
1999
Heart
1999
Hilary and Jackie
1998
The Animal Train
1998
Mr White Goes To Westminster
1997
Spice World
1997
Victory
1996
The Writing on the Wall
1996
Chaplin's Goliath
1996
Richard III
1995
The Turnaround
1995
The Riddle of the Sands
1995
Hard Times
1994
Wall of Silence
1993
God on the Rocks
1992
Chaplin
1992
Truly Madly Deeply
1991
The Object of Beauty
1991
Yellowbacks
1990
The Witches
1990
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989
The Rachel Papers
1989
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988
Just Ask for Diamond
1988
Byrne About Byrne
1988
The Story of a Recluse
1987
The Interrogation of John
1987
Friendship's Death
1987
Lily My Love
1987
Hidden City
1987
Coming Up Roses
1987
Defence of the Realm
1986
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
Dutch Girls
1985
The Killing Fields
1984
A Private Function
1984
Comfort and Joy
1984
The Ploughman's Lunch
1983
United Kingdom
1981
The Cherry Orchard
1981
One Fine Day
1979
The Vanishing Army
1978
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
1978
The Odd Job
1978
Licking Hitler
1978
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
1974
Clydescope
1974
TV Shows (60)
The Repair Shop on the Road
2025
House of the Dragon
2022
The Sandman
2022
Halo
2022
Britain’s Scenic Railways
2021
Between the Covers
2020
Guilt
2019
Brassic
2019
Good Omens
2019
The Repair Shop
2017
Urban Myths
2017
Fleabag
2016
The Rebel
2016
Scot Squad
2014
Outlander
2014
37 Days
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
Shetland
2013
Them From That Thing
2012
Dirk Gently
2012
Law & Order: UK
2009
Little Dorrit
2008
Criminal Justice
2008
The One Show
2006
ShakespeaRe-Told
2005
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Shoebox Zoo
2004
Sea of Souls
2004
Canterbury Tales
2003
Trust
2003
Doctor Zhivago
2002
Foyle's War
2002
Battle of the Atlantic
2002
Born and Bred
2002
Rebel Heart
2001
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
2000
Wives and Daughters
1999
Melissa
1997
The Crow Road
1996
Oliver's Travels
1995
Sharman
1995
Hard Times
1994
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Screen One
1989
Traffik
1989
The Play on One
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
The Singing Detective
1986
ScreenPlay
1986
ScreenPlay
1986
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Smiley's People
1982
Life of Shakespeare
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970
Omnibus
1967
Horizon
1964
