Richard Wilson

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

Biography

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

09 July 1936, 89 years old

Known For

Gnomeo & Juliet

Sherlock Gnomes

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Love and Other Disasters

A Passage to India

A Dry White Season

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Prick Up Your Ears

Carry On Columbus

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Sweetly It Turns

Len

2023

G♭

Ceri

2022

Sherlock Gnomes

Mr. Capulet (voice)

2018

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Starveling

2016

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland

Narrator

2015

Danny & the Human Zoo

James Broughton

2015

Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army

Self - Host

2013

Confessions from the Underground

Self - Narrator(voice)

2012

Gnomeo & Juliet

Mr. Capulet

2011

The One Ronnie

2010

Reichenbach Falls

Arthur Conan Doyle

2007

A Harlot's Progress

Sir James Thornhill

2006

Love and Other Disasters

Registrar

2006

King of Fridges

Frank

2004

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

Duke of Edinburgh

2002

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime

Sally the Cook

2002

Women Talking Dirty

Ronald

2001

Visiting Uncle Dick

Victor Meldrew

2001

Ted & Ralph

Landowner at Party

1998

Endgame

Victor Meldrew

1997

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Daggenhurst

1997

Starbound

Victor Meldrew

1996

Lord of Misrule

Bill Webster

1996

The Wisdom Of The Witch

Victor Meldrew

1995

The Man Who Blew Away

Victor Meldrew

1994

Butter

Steven Williams

1994

One Foot in the Algarve

Victor Meldrew

1993

The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny

Mr. McGregor (voice)

1993

The Vision Thing

James Forth

1993

Selling Hitler

Henri Nannen

1993

Victor In The Bath

Victor Meldrew

1993

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Uncle Salvatore

1993

Carry On Columbus

Don Juan Felipe

1992

Unnatural Pursuits

Hector Duff

1992

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Mr. McGregor

1992

The Man In The Long Black Coat

Victor Meldrew

1991

Who's Listening

Victor Meldrew

1990

Kremlin Farewell

Lebedev

1990

Fellow Traveller

Sir Hugo Armstrong

1989

A Dry White Season

Cloete

1989

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

John Bristol

1989

The Four Minute Mile

Harold Abrahams

1988

Byrne About Byrne

Eddie Clockerty

1988

Normal Service

Max

1988

Prick Up Your Ears

Psychiatrist

1987

Foreign Body

Colonel Partridge

1986

Whoops Apocalypse

Nigel Lipman (Foreign Secretary)

1986

Murder by the Book

Sir Max Mallowan

1986

Poppyland

Theodore Watts-Dunton

1985

A Passage to India

Mr. Turton

1984

Those Glory Glory Days

Arnold - Journalist

1983

Virginia Fly is Drowning

Professor

1981

Shaping Up

Tom McCann

1980

Pasmore

Abercrombie

1980

Caledonian Cascade

1977

Bet Your Life

Consultant

1976

The Portland Millions

Albert Foster

1976

Through the Night

Registrar

1975

The Trouble with 2B

1972

The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day

1972

The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air

1972

The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days

Mr Potter

1972

The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger

1972

The Day They Buried Cleaver

Det. Sgt. Sand

1970

Junket 89

1970

Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows

Mr. O'Flanagan, O'Leary, Tram Conductor

1970

The People’s Jack

George III

1970