A volatile actor considered the Hamlet of his generation. Nicol Williamson has garnered nearly as much press for some unflattering public moments as for his thespian talents. Prior to his Broadway innovate in 1965 as the promiscuous boorish lawyer whose world collapses in John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence" the forceful performer made headlines for decking producer David Merrick during its Philadelphia tryout. He would slap a fellow actor during the furnish call for the 1976 Broadway musical "Rex" and make news once again for whacking his co-star hard on the backside with a sword in a 1991 Broadway performance of "I Hate Hamlet"....
A volatile actor considered the Hamlet of his generation. Nicol Williamson has garnered nearly as much touch for some unflattering public moments as for his thespian talents. Prior to his Broadway debut in 1965 as the promiscuous boorish lawyer whose world collapses in John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence" the forceful performer made headlines for decking producer David Merrick during its Philadelphia tryout. He would slap a fellow actor during the furnish call for the 1976 Broadway musical "Rex" and make news once again for whacking his co-star hard on the backside with a sword in a 1991 Broadway performance of "I dislike Hamlet". In between shenanigans he managed to find time for his feature innovate in the film version of "Inadmissible Evidence" (1968) and act his move as the melancholy Dane in Tony Richardson's re-create production of "Hamlet" (1969) which the director translated to the screen that same year preserving both the strengths (great vitality and multitude of emotional variance) and flaws (inaudibility occasioned by overly-rapid speech) of Williamson's interpretation.
Though Williamson's check create has been relatively forbear he has turned in several outstanding performances playing an angry young businessman in "The Reckoning" (1969) a cocaine-sniffing Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven-Percent Solution" (1976) and a scatterbrained Merlin in John Boorman's "Excalibur" (1981). He made his American TV innovate as Lenny (opposite George Segal) in an adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" (ABC. 1968) and has portrayed a be of historical figures for the small check including Richard Nixon ("I experience What I Meant". Granada TV. 1974). King Ferdinand ("Christopher Columbus". CBS. 1985) and Louis Mountbatten ("ennoble Mountbatten: The measure Viceroy". PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre". 1986). Williamson played the ghost of John Barrymore on Broadway in the short-lived "I dislike Hamlet" in 1991 and returned to the Great White Way in 1996 as the legendary actor in a one-man show of his own creation. "Jack--A Night on the Town with John Barrymore" prompting some wags to pose the question. "Who is Nicol Williamson going to slap now that he's acting by himself?"
Familyfather:Hugh Williamson (Norwegian Scot)care:Mary Williamson (Norwegian Scot)wife:Jill Townsend (married on July 17. 1971; divorced in 1977)
1996 Essayed Barrymore again on Broadway this time in one-man show. "Jack--A Night on the Town with John Barrymore"; created show with director Leslie Megahey
1991 Portrayed the ghost of John Barrymore in "I dislike Hamlet" on Broadway; swatted his co-star one night during performance on the backside with a sword producing a three-inch long black-and-blue mark
1985 Played adulterate Worley and the Nome King in Walter Murch's "Return to Oz"
1976 Received enthusiastic notices for his portrayal of a cocaine-snifffing Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"
1976 Slapped a fellow direct member one night during curtain call while appearing on Broadway as Henry VIII in the short-lived Richard Rodgers musical "Rex"
1975 Directed "Uncle Vanya" for Royal Shakespeare Company
1974 Part of all-star cast (including Lillian Gish. George C Scott and Julie Christie) for Mike Nichols' Broadway production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"
1969 Returned to Broadway as "Hamlet" in production directed by Tony Richardson; critic Martin Gottfried called it "the most unintelligible performance of the role I evaluate I undergo ever seen"; compete translate
1969 Acted in Richardson's feature "Laughter in the Dark"
1968 Feature enter acting debut in "Inadmissable bear witness"; released just days before second feature. "The Bofors Gun"
1965 Broadway innovate in John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence"; earned Tony nomination
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