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

The Dick Cavett Show

Thirty-Minute Theatre

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Excalibur

Spawn

Chillers

Return to Oz

All Movies (35)

• One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll2006
• Spawn1997 · as Cogliostro
• The Wind in the Willows1996 · as Badger
• The Hour of the Pig1993 · as Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre
• Audrey Hepburn: Remembered1993 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Exorcist III1990 · as Father Morning
• Passion Flower1987 · as Albert Coskin
• Black Widow1987 · as William McCrory
• Return to Oz1985 · as Dr. Worley / Nome King
• To Be Hamlet1985 · as Self
• Sakharov1984 · as Malyarov
• Macbeth1983 · as Macbeth
• I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can1982 · as Derek Bauer
• Venom1981 · as Cmdr. William Bulloch
• Excalibur1981 · as Merlin
• The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie1981 · as Self
• The Human Factor1979 · as Maurice Castle
• The Cheap Detective1978 · as Colonel Schlissel
• The Goodbye Girl1977 · as Oliver Fry (uncredited)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution1976 · as Sherlock Holmes
• Robin and Marian1976 · as Little John
• The Wilby Conspiracy1975 · as Major Horn
• I Know What I Meant1974 · as Richard Nixon
• The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui1972 · as Arturo Ui
• The Monk1972 · as The Duke of Talamur
• The Jerusalem File1972 · as Professor Lang
• The Reckoning1970 · as Michael Marler
• Hamlet1969 · as Hamlet / King Hamlet
• Laughter in the Dark1969 · as Sir Edward More
• Inadmissible Evidence1968 · as Bill Maitland
• The Bofors Gun1968 · as Gunner O'Rourke
• Of Mice and Men1968 · as Lennie
• Horror of Darkness1965 · as Robin
• The Day of Ragnarok1965
• The Six-Sided Triangle1963 · as The Lover

All TV Shows (10)

• Chillers1990 · as Dr Stephen McCullough
• Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy1986 · as Lord Louis Mountbatten
• Christopher Columbus1985 · as Re Ferdinando
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Macbeth
• The Word1978 · as Maertin de Vroome
• Film '721971 · as Self
• Columbo1971 · as Eric Mason
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Jim Fitch
• Six1964