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Thomas Nicol Williamson (14 September 1936 – 16 December 2011) was a British actor. He was once described by playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando".
Nicol Williamson was a highly acclaimed stage actor who rivaled Albert Finney as the finest actor of his generation in the late 1960s and 1970s. He starred in Hamlet, Macbeth, Inadmissible Evidence and other plays, and appeared in films such as The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Excalibur and Robin and Marian.
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- Hamilton, Scotland, UK
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- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Jan 26, 2012 · Nicol Williamson, a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a...
Nicol Williamson was an enormously talented actor who was considered by some critics to be the finest actor of his generation in the late 1960s and the 1970s, rivaled only by Albert Finney, whom Williamson bested in the classics.
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- December 16, 2011
- September 14, 1936
Jan 26, 2012 · Nicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most electrifying actor of his generation, but one whose career flickered and...
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Jan 26, 2012 · The Scottish-born Williamson was perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the wizard Merlin in the 1981 film “Excalibur” and for his turn as the drug-addicted yet...
Jan 26, 2012 · Nicol Williamson, a Scottish-born theater star heralded as one of the finest actors of his generation but whose menacing unpredictability onstage and off diminished his career, died Dec. 16 in...
