Nicol Williamson
Born: 1936-09-14 in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Died: 2011-12-16
Known For: Acting
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
1997
- Spawn as Cogliostro
1996
- The Wind in the Willows as Badger
1993
- The Hour of the Pig as Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre
- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1990
- The Exorcist III as Father Morning
1987
- Black Widow as William McCrory
- Passion Flower as Albert Coskin
1986
- Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy as Lord Louis Mountbatten
1985
- Return to Oz as Dr. Worley / Nome King
- Christopher Columbus as Re Ferdinando
- To Be Hamlet as Self
1984
- Sakharov as Malyarov
1983
- Macbeth as Macbeth
1982
- I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can as Derek Bauer
1979
- The Human Factor as Maurice Castle
1978
- The Word as Maertin de Vroome
- The Cheap Detective as Colonel Schlissel
1977
- The Goodbye Girl as Oliver Fry (uncredited)
1976
- Robin and Marian as Little John
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Sherlock Holmes
1975
- The Wilby Conspiracy as Major Horn
1974
- I Know What I Meant as Richard Nixon
1972
- The Monk as The Duke of Talamur
- The Jerusalem File as Professor Lang
- The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui as Arturo Ui
1971
- Columbo as Eric Mason
1970
- The Reckoning as Michael Marler
1969
- Hamlet as Hamlet / King Hamlet
- Laughter in the Dark as Sir Edward More
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Inadmissible Evidence as Bill Maitland
- The Bofors Gun as Gunner O'Rourke
- Of Mice and Men as Lennie
1965
- Horror of Darkness as Robin
- The Day of Ragnarok
1964
1963
- The Six-Sided Triangle as The Lover