Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson

Nascimento : 1936-07-09, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

História

Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He played Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. A later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angel Coulby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson

Filmes

Gnomeu e Julieta: O Mistério do Jardim
Mr. Capulet (voice)
Gnomeu e Julieta chegam em Londres, na Inglaterra, onde são encarregados como os novos responsáveis pela manutenção do jardim. A nova tarefa cria alguns atritos entre o casal, o que faz com que Gnomeu tente impressioná-la com uma flor que remete ao início deles. O plano dá errado e, ao retornar para casa, Gnomeu e Julieta descobrem que todos os seus amigos gnomos desapareceram. Logo eles encontram Sherlock Gnomes, que está investigando o sumiço deles ao lado de seu fiel companheiro Watson.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Starveling
Shakespeare's comedy adapted for television by Russell T. Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland
Narrator
A varied history of gay people and Scotland.
Danny & the Human Zoo
James Broughton
A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
Gnomeu e Julieta
Mr. Capulet
Gnomeu e Julieta são anões de jardim cujas famílias são vizinhas e rivais. Um dia eles se apaixonam, para desgosto dos familiares. Para ficarem juntos, eles precisarão enfrentar diversos obstáculos.
The One Ronnie
One of Britain's most enduring and best-loved comics, Ronnie Corbett, turned 80 in December 2010. In this brand new comedy sketch show, the octogenarian comic legend appears alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy, in sketches featuring everything from a superannuated super-hero to a stage-struck dog. Add in a sprinkling of one-liners and a brand new Ronnie monologue in the famous chair for the must-see comedy of the festive season.
Reichenbach Falls
Arthur Conan Doyle
A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in the Scottish capital with an old friend - a crime writer researching the new novel. Buchan's investigation takes him into the dark underworld of Edinburgh's literary past and leads him to question the very nature of his own existence.
A Harlot's Progress
Sir James Thornhill
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Amor e Outros Desastres
Registrar
Jacks é uma editora-assistente na Vogue britânica e a figura central do seu grupo de amigos que costuma bancar o cupido e gerenciar os desastrosos relacionamentos dos casais que forma. Seu amigo gay com quem mora Peter é um objeto frequente de suas repetitivas tentativas de ajudar a encontrar o amor verdadeiro. Mas Jacks deve perceber que precisa focar em sua vida amorosa nada saudável e Peter tem que evitar que seu ideal de amor atrapalhe a oportunidade de ser feliz na vida real. AMOR E OUTROS DESASTRES nos dá uma amostra divertida de um engraçado grupo de amigos e suas vidas em Londres, enquanto examina a diferença entre amor de cinema e amor na vida real.
King of Fridges
Frank
A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
Duke of Edinburgh
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
Sally the Cook
An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.
Women Talking Dirty
Ronald
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Ted & Ralph
Landowner at Party
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded stately home. His only friend is Ted (Paul Whitehouse), the elderly Irish estate-worker. But their way of life is under threat: Ralph must marry before his 35th birthday or lose everything. Just when it all seems hopeless, along comes Wendy (Kathy Burke). But as Ralph's affection for Wendy grows, his dependence on Ted wanes. Is this the end of a beautiful friendship? Is Wendy all that she seems? Will Ralph go through with the marriage? And will he save the Hall?
O Homem que Sabia de Menos
Sir Roger Daggenhurst
O americano Wallace Ritchie viaja para a Inglaterra, para visitar seu irmão James que está fazendo aniversário. Na Inglaterra, James pede para Wallace entrar no Teatro da Vida, um teatro que é feito nas ruas de Londres. Após uma confusão, Wallace (Wally) é confundido com um super espião, achando que tudo se passa de um teatro. Ele muda seu nome para Spenser (ou Spency), e ganha uma parceira de trabalho chamada Lori…
Lord of Misrule
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Butter
Steven Williams
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.
One Foot in the Algarve
Victor Meldrew
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Uncle Salvatore
Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchicker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Carry On Columbus
Don Juan Felipe
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Unnatural Pursuits
Hector Duff
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Selling Hitler
Henri Nannen
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Changing Step
Director
Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
Kremlin Farewell
Lebedev
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Inimigos da Liberdade
Sir Hugo Armstrong
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
Assassinato Sob Custódia
Cloete
África do Sul, 1976. Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) é um professor que, gradativamente, toma consciência da terrível realidade do seu país, na qual os negros são assassinados sem o menor motivo e os assassinos são protegidos pelo regime dominante. Diante deste quadro, ele resolve enfrentar o sistema.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
John Bristol
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
The Four Minute Mile
Harold Abrahams
A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Director
A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex ‘n’ sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating “a wholly healthy Glasgow… a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?
Normal Service
Max
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
O Amor Não Tem Sexo
Psychiatrist
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
Foreign Body
Colonel Partridge
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Por Favor, Matem Minha Mulher
Aerobic Instructor
Sam Stone odeia tanto a esposa Barbara que não vê a hora de se livrar dela. Quando descobre que a mulher foi sequestrada, ele simplesmente ignora todas as exigências dos sequestradores, inclusive o pedido de resgate de quinhentos mil dólares. Confusos, os sequestradores tentam encontrar uma forma de colocar a mão no dinheiro, enquanto lidam com o autoritarismo de sua vítima.
Whoops Apocalypse
Nigel Lipman (Foreign Secretary)
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Murder by the Book
Sir Max Mallowan
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
Poppyland
Theodore Watts-Dunton
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Passagem para a Índia
Mr. Turton
No final dos anos 20 Adela Quested (Judy Davis), uma rica inglesa de idéias liberais, viaja para fora do país pela primeira vez, indo à Índia para encontrar seu noivo. O choque cultural acontece, mas quando tudo parecia facilitar a integração Adela acusa o jovem Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) de tentativa de estupro durante um passeio até as cavernas de Marabar.
Under the Hammer
Director
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.
Those Glory Glory Days
Arnold - Journalist
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
The Remainder Man
Director
Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.
Commitments
Director
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
Pasmore
Abercrombie
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Bet Your Life
Consultant
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Through the Night
Registrar
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
Mr Potter
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2B
It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.
Junket 89
Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...
The People’s Jack
George III
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.
G♭
84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time staff shortage brings; he uses Grindr to invite 20-year-old rent-boy Iestyn to visit.