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Acting

Nicol Williamson

Career: Active from 1963 to 1997, busiest in 1968 and 1972 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 23
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
74/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 22 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Nicol Williamson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Wholesome
1.8, average 3.4
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Melancholy Tone 3
Character-Driven 3
Psychological Tension 2
Historical Setting 2
Nostalgic 2
Political Thriller 2
Character Study 2
Bleak Realism 2
Social Commentary 2
Cult Classic 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

39

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

6 titles · average score 58

Spawn

36

as Cogliostro

The Wind in the Willows

60

as Badger

The Hour of the Pig

71

as Seigneur Jehan d'Auferre

The Exorcist III

59

as Father Morning

A Curious Suicide

as Dr. Stephen McCullough

Chillers

65

TV show · as Dr Stephen McCullough

1980s

10 titles · average score 62

Passion Flower

as Albert Coskin

Black Widow

61

as William

Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy

74

TV show · as Lord Louis Mountbatten

Return to Oz

55

as Dr. Worley / Nome King

Christopher Columbus

65

TV show · as Re Ferdinando

Sakharov

as Malyarov

Macbeth

66

as Macbeth

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

47

as Derek Bauer

Excalibur

69

as Merlin

Venom

58

as Cmdr. William Bulloch

1970s

14 titles · average score 66

The Human Factor

54

as Maurice Castle

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Macbeth

The Cheap Detective

57

as Colonel Schlissel

The Goodbye Girl

72

as Oliver Fry (uncredited)

Robin and Marian

68

as Little John

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

72

as Sherlock Holmes

The Wilby Conspiracy

55

as Major Horn

The Monk

59

as The Duke of Talamur

The Jerusalem File

as Professor Lang

The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

as Arturo Ui

Columbo

83

TV show · as Eric Mason

The Reckoning

71

as Michael Marler

1960s

9 titles · average score 60

Hamlet

63

as Hamlet / King Hamlet

Laughter in the Dark

51

as Sir Edward More

Of Mice and Men

as Lennie

Inadmissible Evidence

as Bill Maitland

The Bofors Gun

65

as Gunner O'Rourke

Horror of Darkness

as Robin

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Jim Fitch

TV show

The Six-Sided Triangle

as The Lover