Biography for
Bill Paterson (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

3 June 1945, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Height

5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Spouse

Hildegard Bechtler

(? - present) 2 children

Trivia

His photograph appears in the background of the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002) on a pinboard: apparently he was cast in Terry Gilliam 's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" but did not film any scenes before production was called off.

Trained as a drama teacher at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1982, for his performance as "Schwekyk" in Bertolt Brecht's "Schwekyk in the Second World War", at the National Theatre.

Has worked on many voice-overs for documentaries such as Equinox, Horizon and Reputation. He has also worked extensively in radio, and has written and read his own stories for BBC Radio.

He played King James I in "Life of Shakespeare" (1978) and his son, King Charles I, in The Return of the Musketeers (1989).

He appeared in the movie The Killing Fields (1984), with "Law & Order" (1990) US star, Sam Waterston.