Nicol Williamson

Personal Info

Birthday

September 14, 1936

Day of Death

2011-12-16

(75 years old)

Place of Birth

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Nicol Williamson

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.

Known For

Columbo

Spawn

Return to Oz

The Exorcist III

Christopher Columbus

Excalibur

Passion Flower

Black Widow

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
Passion Flower
as Albert Coskin
Black Widow
as William McCrory
1985
Return to Oz
as Dr. Worley / Nome King
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
1981
Venom
as Cmdr. William Bulloch
Excalibur
as Merlin
1979
The Human Factor
as Maurice Castle
1978
The Cheap Detective
as Colonel Schlissel
1977
The Goodbye Girl
as Oliver Fry (uncredited)
1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Sherlock Holmes
Robin and Marian
as Little John
1975
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Major Horn
1974
I Know What I Meant
as Richard Nixon
1972
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Arturo Ui
The Monk
as The Duke of Talamur
The Jerusalem File
as Professor Lang
1970
The Reckoning
as Michael Marler
1969
Hamlet
as Hamlet / King Hamlet
Laughter in the Dark
as Sir Edward More
1968
Inadmissible Evidence
as Bill Maitland
The Bofors Gun
as Gunner O'Rourke
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie
1965
Horror of Darkness
as Robin
1963
The Six-Sided Triangle
as The Lover