Nicol Williamson
Highest Rated: 84% The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Lowest Rated: 17% Spawn (1997)
Birthday: Sep 14, 1936
Birthplace: Hamilton, Scotland, UK
Nicol Williamson never achieved the household name status of Brando or Olivier, but by many critics' appraisals, his talents equaled the greats of his own or any generation. A native of Scotland, Williamson established himself as a force of a new generation of British actors in 1964 as the star of West End production of "Inadmissable Evidence," going on to take the show to Broadway, a Tony nomination and the starring role in the 1968 film adaptation. He delivered what many regarded as the definitive "Hamlet" of his time in a U.K. restaging that went on to play Broadway. He again wowed live audiences and critics with his turns in "Macbeth," "Uncle Vanya" and "Rex" and shone in films such as "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1976) and "The Human Factor" (1979), not to mention his signature turn as Merlin in the 1981 film adaptation of the Arthurian cycle, "Excalibur" (1981). He would find work in major television events, foremost ITV's 1986 Mountbatten biopic, and do two disparate Broadway and West End productions playing the legendary John Barrymore.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17% | 36% | Spawn | Cogliostro (Character) | $55M | 1997 |
| 75% | 62% | The Wind in the Willows | Badger (Character) | $72.8K | 1996 |
| 75% | 53% | The Advocate | Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre (Character) | $231K | 1993 |
| 59% | 56% | The Exorcist III | Father Morning (Character) | $25M | 1990 |
| 50% | 40% | Black Widow | William McCrory (Character) | $22.7M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | Lord Louis Mountbatten (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passion Flower | Albert Coskin (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 53% | 71% | Return to Oz |
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- | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sakharov | Malyarov (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Macbeth | Macbeth (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 33% | 50% | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Derek Bauer (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 43% | 31% | Venom | Cmdr. William Bulloch (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 80% | 80% | Excalibur | Merlin (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 33% | 23% | The Human Factor | Maurice Castle (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 47% | 58% | The Cheap Detective | Colonel Schlissel (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 84% | 84% | The Goodbye Girl | Oliver Fry (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 73% | 53% | Robin and Marian | Little John (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 79% | 68% | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Sherlock Holmes (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 60% | 44% | The Wilby Conspiracy | Major Horn (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jerusalem File | Professor Lang (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Reckoning | Michael Marler (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laughter in the Dark | Sir Edward More (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Hamlet | Hamlet (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bofors Gun | O'Rourke (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of Mice and Men | Lennie (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inadmissible Evidence | Bill Maitland (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chillers | Unknown (Character) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christopher Columbus | King Ferdinand (Character) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo | Dr. Eric Mason (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1970 |
QUOTES FROM Nicol Williamson CHARACTERS
William Macauley says: I put on a bristle here and a bristle there, and turned myself into a porcupine.
Catharine says: Well, you know, it's such an old joke... how do two porcupines make love?...Very carefully.
Merlin says: Look into the eyes of the Dragon and despair! I destroy you, I consign you to oblivion!
Merlin says: Behold Excalibur! The sword of power! Forged when birds and beasts and flower were One with Man, and death was but a dream!
King Arthur says: What is the greatest quality of knighthood? No poetry, just a simple answer.
Merlin says: Alright then. Truth! That's it, truth. When a man lies he murders some part of world. You should know that.
Merlin says: You betrayed the duke. You stole his wife. You took hist castle; now no one trusts you. It's not for you, Uther-- hearth and home, wife and child.
Uther says: To kill, and be king? Is that all?
Merlin says: Perhaps not even that. Give me the child.
Merlin says: Ride! Your lust will hold you up!
Merlin says: A dream to some.......a nightmare to others!!!
Merlin says: A dream to some.......a nightmare to others!