Bill Paterson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-06-03
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
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
Also Known For
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Feb 03, 2007
The Witches
May 25, 1990
Comfort and Joy
Aug 14, 1984
Complicity
May 06, 2000
Dutch Girls
Oct 18, 1985
Miss Potter
Dec 03, 2006
Defence of the Realm
May 09, 1986
The Return of the Musketeers
Apr 12, 1989
Amazing Grace
Sep 16, 2006
Ghosts in the Machine
Oct 27, 2009
The Riddle of the Sands
Mar 19, 1995
Victory
Dec 13, 1996
The Man Who Lives with Bears
Jan 03, 2008
Hilary and Jackie
Dec 30, 1998
Yellowbacks
Aug 30, 1990
Documenting John Grierson
Feb 28, 2014
Arthur's Whisky
Sep 19, 2024
The Man who Crossed Hitler
Aug 21, 2011
The Colour Room
Nov 12, 2021
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Aug 05, 2009
The List
Jul 05, 2013
Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me
Dec 27, 2011
Friendship's Death
Aug 17, 1987
Creation
Sep 25, 2009
A Bear Named Wojtek
Apr 19, 2024
Coming Up Roses
Feb 20, 1987
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Jun 06, 1974
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Mar 25, 2007
The Writing on the Wall
Jul 21, 1996
Hard Times
Apr 29, 1994
Lie with Me
Nov 15, 2004
The Interrogation of John
Sep 30, 1987
Lily My Love
Jul 29, 1987
Truly Madly Deeply
May 03, 1991
Intervention
Jan 01, 2007
The Killing Fields
Nov 23, 1984
Clydescope
Jan 01, 1974
Chaplin's Goliath
Jan 01, 1996
Licking Hitler
Jan 10, 1978
Byrne About Byrne
Apr 01, 1988
A War on Science
Jan 26, 2006
God's Chosen Car Park
Dec 01, 1986
The Vote
May 07, 2015
Chaplin
Dec 17, 1992
One Fine Day
Feb 17, 1979
Dad's Army
Feb 05, 2016
A Private Function
Nov 09, 1984
Bright Young Things
Oct 03, 2003
Churchill's Secret
Feb 29, 2016
Othello
Dec 23, 2001
The Whistle-Blower
Apr 14, 2001
Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games
Jul 08, 2012
The Cherry Orchard
Oct 13, 1981
The White Room
The Object of Beauty
Apr 12, 1991
1929: The Great Crash
Jan 01, 2009
In Dreams
Dec 23, 1992
Mr White Goes To Westminster
Dec 31, 1997
Richard III
Dec 29, 1995
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
Oct 05, 1978
Crush
Jun 07, 2002
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Apr 14, 2003
Sunshine
Sep 13, 1999
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Dec 07, 1988
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Oct 02, 2008
Hidden City
Jun 24, 1987
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Oct 01, 1988
Just Ask for Diamond
Sep 01, 1988
The Ploughman's Lunch
May 30, 1983
Spice World
Dec 18, 1997
High-Rise
Nov 22, 2015
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Nov 05, 1989
The Match
Aug 13, 1999
Heart
Jan 01, 1999
Rag Tale
Oct 07, 2005
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Oct 12, 2017
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Oct 11, 2018
United Kingdom
Dec 08, 1981
The Odd Job
Aug 31, 1978
The Rachel Papers
May 12, 1989
Wonderdate
Sep 27, 2018
The Vanishing Army
Nov 29, 1978
Into the Storm
May 31, 2009
The Turnaround
Apr 05, 1995
The Garden Beyond
Jan 01, 1977
Chrono-Perambulator
Dec 12, 1999
The Day Mountbatten Died
Aug 19, 2019
Tell Tale Hearts
Nov 01, 1992
Wall of Silence
Oct 17, 1993
Marionette
Sep 28, 2020
Love Sarah
Jul 02, 2020
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Dec 31, 1985
Fascism in Colour
Jan 01, 2006
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Apr 08, 2008
The Entity
Apr 09, 2002
Rebecca
Oct 16, 2020
The Thin End of the Wedge
Dec 20, 1977
Behind Bars
Mar 14, 2001
Home Road Movies
Jun 07, 2002
God on the Rocks
Dec 29, 1992
Children of the Wicker Man
Aug 23, 2024
The Pen
Aug 25, 1995
The Phoenix: A Century of Cinema
Jan 01, 2011
The House Was Not Hungry Then
Mar 22, 2025
The Spirit of 1926
Nov 16, 2022
Murder Most Horrid
Nov 14, 1991
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
Jun 18, 2000
The Singing Detective
Nov 16, 1986
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Horizon
Feb 04, 1964
Foyle's War
Oct 27, 2002
Good Omens
May 31, 2019
Law & Order: UK
Feb 23, 2009
Criminal Justice
Jun 30, 2008
Wives and Daughters
Nov 28, 1999
Doctor Zhivago
Nov 24, 2002
Traffik
Jun 22, 1989
ShakespeaRe-Told
Nov 07, 2005
Little Dorrit
Oct 26, 2008
Oliver's Travels
Jun 11, 1995
Sea of Souls
Feb 02, 2004
Smiley's People
Sep 20, 1982
Rebel Heart
Jan 07, 2001
Life of Shakespeare
Jun 13, 1978
Junior Masterchef
Aug 14, 1994
Melissa
May 12, 1997
The Michael Ball Show
Aug 16, 2010
Doctor Who
Mar 26, 2005
Birds Britannia
Nov 03, 2010
Britain’s Scenic Railways
Nov 03, 2021
37 Days
Mar 06, 2014
The Crow Road
Nov 04, 1996
Born and Bred
Apr 21, 2002
Canterbury Tales
Sep 11, 2003
Outlander
Aug 09, 2014
Sharman
Apr 05, 1995
Shetland
Mar 10, 2013
Will Shakespeare
Jun 13, 1978
Shoebox Zoo
Sep 21, 2004
Arthouse
Oct 26, 1997
Fleabag
Jul 21, 2016
Between the Covers
Oct 09, 2020
Urban Myths
Jan 19, 2017
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Nov 11, 1983
A Passion for Churches
Dec 28, 2005
The Sandman
Aug 05, 2022
House of the Dragon
Aug 21, 2022
Halo
Mar 24, 2022
Brassic
Aug 22, 2019
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dec 12, 2004
The Repair Shop
Mar 27, 2017
Them From That Thing
Aug 21, 2012
Scot Squad
Nov 03, 2014
The Repair Shop
Mar 27, 2017
Battle of the Atlantic
Jul 07, 2002
Inside No. 9
Feb 05, 2014
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
The Play on One
Jan 19, 1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Jan 10, 1988
The Rebel
Jul 20, 2016
Hard Times
Apr 29, 1994
Guilt
Oct 24, 2019
Dirk Gently
Mar 05, 2012
A Wanted Man
Sep 25, 1989
Ghostbusters of East Finchley
Nov 16, 1995
