Nicol Williamson

Nicol Williamson

Birthday: 1936-09-14

Place of Birth: Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

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.

Movies

To Be Hamlet
To Be Hamlet

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the par...

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Spawn
Spawn

After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact wi...

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Robin and Marian
Robin and Marian

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria...

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The Six-Sided Triangle
The Six-Sided Triangle

The Six-Sided Triangle is a 1963 short film directed by Christopher Miles, starring his younger sist...

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Excalibur
Excalibur

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conce...

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Venom
Venom

International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, howev...

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The Exorcist III
The Exorcist III

On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieuten...

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The Wilby Conspiracy
The Wilby Conspiracy

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released ...

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Return to Oz
Return to Oz

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of...

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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienn...

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse...

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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...

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The Human Factor
The Human Factor

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security ...

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Black Widow
Black Widow

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich ...

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depressio...

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The Hour of the Pig
The Hour of the Pig

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. ...

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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium....

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The Reckoning
The Reckoning

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 ye...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there,...

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Passion Flower
Passion Flower

The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activit...

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Inadmissible Evidence
Inadmissible Evidence

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becom...

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The Jerusalem File
The Jerusalem File

An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However...

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The Monk
The Monk

Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes...

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Sakharov
Sakharov

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...

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Horror of Darkness
Horror of Darkness

A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an un...

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Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant soph...

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The Day of Ragnarok
The Day of Ragnarok

“Fantasy of the end of civilization. Lesbians commit mayhem during a nuclear war in a wood.” - BFI....

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The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking r...

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The Bofors Gun
The Bofors Gun

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Will...

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The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu...

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The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are r...

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Laughter in the Dark
Laughter in the Dark

Swinging London in the 1960s. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, ...

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I Know What I Meant
I Know What I Meant

A reconstruction from the audio tapes recorded in the US White House after the Watergate break in....

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One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll
One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll

For many music fans, history is divided into the long, dull centuries before rock 'n' roll was born ...

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