Bill Paterson Bio, Wiki, Net Worth, Movies, TV Shows

William Tulloch Paterson, now 77 years old, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 3, 1945. Before enrolling at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he served an apprenticeship as a quantity surveyor for three years.

Bill Paterson is a Scottish actor who has appeared in films and TV series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019), and Brassic (2020).

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In 1967, Bill Paterson had his stage debut in Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, sharing the stage with Leonard Rossiter. Paterson became a member of the Citizens’ Theatre for Youth in 1970. Up until 1972, when he went to perform with Billy Connolly in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show at the Edinburgh Festival, he stayed there as an actor and assistant director.

Later on, when Paterson appeared in Connolly’s play An Me Wi’ a Bad Leg Tae, they would collaborate once again. He spent a significant portion of the 1970s touring the UK and Europe with pieces including The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil with John McGrath’s theater group, 7:84. He was a founding member of the band 7:84, and the group made its London debut the following year.
He performed in John Byrne’s first piece, Writer’s Cramp, at the Edinburgh Festival and in London. In 1979, he made his West End debut at the Savoy Theatre in Whose Life Is It Anyway?

In contrast to the theater, Bill Paterson’s career started to focus more on television. His first roles were in the 1978 BAFTA-winning drama Licking Hitler and the same year’s Will Shakespeare, a British television series in which he played King James. In the 1981 BBC production of The Cherry Orchard, he portrayed Lopakhin. Paterson did not completely ignore the theater, however.

For his portrayal as Schweyk in another Brecht drama, Schweik in the Second World War at the National Theatre, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 1982. He appeared in Ivanov at the Almeida, London, and the Maly Theatre, Moscow, as well as the original productions of Guys and Dolls (1982) at the National Theatre, Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court and Duke of York’s (1991–1992), and (1997).

The National Theatre presented Earthquakes in London by Bill Paterson in the summer of 2010. However, Bill Paterson debuted in movies like The Killing Fields, Comfort and Joy, and A Private Function in the early 1980s (all 1984). The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1987), The Witches (1990), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), Chaplin (1992), Sir Ian McKellen’s Richard III (1995), Bright Young Things (2003), Miss Potter (2006), How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), and Creation are some of the other movies to which the actor has contributed (2009).

In Spice World from 1997, Paterson played Brian, a café proprietor who is familiar with the Spice Girls. In series 2 of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Smiley’s People (1982), The Singing Detective (1986), Traffik (1988), The Crow Road (1996), and Doctor Zhivago (1996), he played the iconic property villain Ally Fraser. He has a long and distinguished TV career (2002).

He did a lot of his latter work for the BBC, including in three seasons of the supernatural drama series Sea of Souls as Dr. Douglas Monaghan. He also portrayed Dr. Gibson in the 1999 production of Wives and Daughters, and he played Mr. Meagles in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit, DS Box in the first season of Criminal Justice, and Dr. James Niven in Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen.

Bill Paterson played George Castle, the CPS chief, in Law & Order: UK from 2009 to 2010. He has narrated a great deal of documentaries during his career and has often participated in radio theatre. In 1978’s episode 7 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4, he performed the voice for the Assistant Arcturan Pilot.

In Fits the 19th, 20th, and 22nd of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase from 2005, Paterson played a character akin to Rob McKenna, a truck driver and ignorant Rain God. He also portrayed the pivotal position of SIS Chief Percy Alleline in the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy adaptation that aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

Professor Edwin Bracewell, played by Paterson, appeared in the Doctor Who episode “Victory of the Daleks” in 2010 and then again in the first part of the season finale, “The Pandorica Opens.” Later that year, Paterson provided the narration for the BBC Four nature film Birds Britannia. Paterson had the lead role in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me in 2011.

In the 2014 Starz historical drama Outlander, Bill Paterson portrayed attorney Ned Gowan. In the television series Shetland, Patterson was cast as Douglas Henshall’s father in 2014. Paterson has also provided narration for a variety of radio and television shows. Paterson started telling radio tales from his Glasgow youth in 2003 under the name Tales From the Back Green on BBC Scotland. These stories were later published by Hodder in 2008, and Paterson went on to perform at several UK book festivals.

He provided the narration for the BBC TV documentary 1929: The Great Crash, which contrasted the 2008 financial crisis with the 1929 Wall Street Crash. In addition, he narrates the BBC’s yearly coverage of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. In 2013, he played Adam Smith at the Royal Court in the play The Low Road. He provided the narration for The Farmers’ Country Showdown, a BBC series that was shown in the early months of 2017 and followed the agricultural show season.

In 1984, Bill Paterson and Hildegard Bechtler were united in marriage. His German-national wife works as a stage designer. The son and daughter of the couple, who reside in London, were born. Paterson has a decent body weight that fits his personality and a pleasing height of 1.75 meters. As in the middle of 2022, Bill Paterson and his wife Hildegard Bechtler are still together and enjoying their family life.

What is Bill Paterson’s net worth? The estimated net worth of Bill Paterson is $12 million. His acting job is his primary source of income. With additional professional earnings, Bill Paterson makes more than $1.5 million a year in pay. His lucrative job has allowed him to enjoy opulent lives and expensive travel. He is one of the wealthiest and most well-known performers in the UK.