Nicol Williamson

Born: 1936-09-14, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Died: 2011-12-16

Biography

Thomas Nicol Williamson (September 14, 1936 - December 16, 2011) was a British actor. He was once described by playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was also described by Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as "the Hamlet of his generation" during the late 1960s.

Filmography

• The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• Cristoforo Colombo (1985)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Spawn (1997)
• Chillers (1990)
• The Exorcist III (1990)
• Return to Oz (1985)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• Le Moine (1972)
• The Goodbye Girl (1977)
• The Wind in the Willows (1996)
• The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
• The Human Factor (1979)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
• The Hour of the Pig (1993)
• Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
• The Jerusalem File (1972)
• Laughter in the Dark (1969)
• Sakharov (1984)
• Horror of Darkness (1965)
• I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
• The Bofors Gun (1968)
• The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)
• The Six-Sided Triangle (1963)
• The Day of Ragnarok (1965)