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  1. 1. Thomas Nicol Williamson [1] (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 ". He was also described by Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as "the Hamlet of his generation" during the late 1960s.

  2. Nicol Williamson was a critically acclaimed actor who starred in Hamlet, Inadmissible Evidence, and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. He was also known for his eccentricities, such as slapping producers and actors, and turning down lucrative film offers.

    • January 1, 1
    • Hamilton, Scotland, UK
    • January 1, 1
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  3. Nicol Williamson. Actor: Excalibur. 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. Williamson's 1969 "Hamlet" at the Roundhouse Theatre was a sensation in London, considered by many to be the best limning of The ...

    • Actor, Additional Crew, Soundtrack
    • December 16, 2011
    • September 14, 1936
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  5. 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 cocaine-sniffing ...

  6. Jan 26, 2012 · Nicol 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 brilliant Sherlock Holmes ...

  7. Jan 26, 2012 · Michael Coveney. Thu 26 Jan 2012 07.58 EST. 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 ...

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  8. Jan 26, 2012 · The son of a foundry worker, Nicol Williamson was born Sept. 14, 1936, in the Scottish mining town of Hamilton and raised in Birmingham, England. He appeared in repertory theater before joining ...

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