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Nicol Williamson

Cast & creator

Nicol Williamson

1936-09-14 (died at 75) Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UKIMDb

Best known for Columbo, The Dick Cavett Show, Film '72

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.

Movies

36

film credits

Series

10

television credits

Career

46

1963–2006 · acting roles

Credit score

6.4

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

Columbo

Columbo

Eric Mason · 1971

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest · 1968

Film '72

Self · 1971

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Jim Fitch · 1965

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Macbeth · 1978

Across film & television

Filmography (46)

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Columbo

Columbo

Eric Mason

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Film '72

Self

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Jim Fitch

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Macbeth

Chillers

Chillers

Dr Stephen McCullough

The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

Father Morning

Excalibur

Excalibur

Merlin

Spawn

Spawn

Cogliostro

Return to Oz

Return to Oz

Dr. Worley / Nome King

The Word

The Word

Maertin de Vroome

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Re Ferdinando

Black Widow

Black Widow

William

Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian

Little John

The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl

Oliver Fry (uncredited)

The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective

Colonel Schlissel

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

Lord Louis Mountbatten

Six

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

Maurice Castle

The Hour of the Pig

The Hour of the Pig

Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

Badger

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy

Major Horn

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Sherlock Holmes

The Monk

The Monk

The Duke of Talamur

Venom

Venom

Cmdr. William Bulloch

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Derek Bauer

Passion Flower

Passion Flower

Albert Coskin

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Self (archive footage)

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

Lennie

One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll

To Be Hamlet

To Be Hamlet

Self

The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie

The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie

Self

I Know What I Meant

Richard Nixon

Sakharov

Sakharov

Malyarov

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark

Sir Edward More

The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Arturo Ui

The Six-Sided Triangle

The Six-Sided Triangle

The Lover

Horror of Darkness

Horror of Darkness

Robin

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet / King Hamlet

The Day of Ragnarok

The Day of Ragnarok

Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth

A Curious Suicide

Dr. Stephen McCullough

The Jerusalem File

The Jerusalem File

Professor Lang

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Michael Marler

The Bofors Gun

The Bofors Gun

Gunner O'Rourke

Inadmissible Evidence

Inadmissible Evidence

Bill Maitland