Richard WilsonFilmography

Born:: July 9, 1936 in Greenrock, Renfrewshire, England
Occupation:: Actor

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Merlin [TV Series]

Actors: Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Anthony Head, Richard Wilson, Katie McGrath

2009
King of Fridges

Actors: Mark Benton, Richard Wilson, Joan Kempson, Anna Keaveney

2004
One Foot in the Grave: Series 06

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton, Janine Duvitski

2000
Women Talking Dirty

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Gina McKee, Richard Wilson, Eileen Atkins, Kenneth Cranham

Synopsis: British director Coky Giedroyc's sophomore feature outing concerns a pair of working class women in Edinburgh, Scotland. Down-to-earth Ellen (Gina McKee), a noted cartoonist, invites her wacky, outgoing best friend Cora (Helena Bonham Carter) to a post-divorce party. Ellen is recovering from an Read More

1999
Tudo E Brasil

Actors: Richard Wilson, Robert Wise, Bill Krohn, Edmar Morel, Paula Lima

Synopsis: Continuing his four-year research into Orson Welles' 1942 trip to Rio, Rogerio Sganzeria rounds out his trilogy with this Brazilian documentary, an assemblage of interviews, radio programs, film clips, photos, graphic designs, and samba music, combining to explain how Welles lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons Read More

1998
The Man Who Knew Too Little

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Synopsis: Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with Read More

1997
Gulliver's Travels

Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Read More

1996
One Foot in the Grave: Series 05

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton, Janine Duvitski

1995
One Foot in the Grave: Series 04

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton, Janine Duvitski

1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Actors: Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: Gavin Bellini is half Scottish, half Italian. Perhaps that blend of two of the most romantic sensibilities in the world accounts for his being in London, scraping out a living as an illustrator. One day he runs into his father's brother and learns that, if he high-tails it to Glasgow in time to Read More

1992
The Other Side of Paradise

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Noel Barber, the four-part British-Australian miniseries The Other Side of Paradise stars Jason Connery as idealistic 1930s physician Chris Masters. Hoping to find a new purpose in life, Masters heads to the tiny South Pacific island of Koraluna, to set up a modern Read More

1992
Carry on Columbus

Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: In this last gasp of the "Carry On" series, minus most of the "Carry On" players, Jim Dale plays Spanish map-maker Christopher Columbus, who has a plan to navigate a new route to India, bypassing the Sultan of Turkey (Rik Mayall) and his sky-high tributes. He convinces King Ferdinand of Spain (Leslie Phillips Read More

1992
One Foot in the Grave: Series 03

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton, Janine Duvitski

1992
Mr. Bean: The Trouble with Mr. Bean

Actors: Rowan Atkinson

Synopsis: First telecast in Britain on January 1, 1992, the 30-minute comedy special The Trouble With Bean once again stars Rowan Atkinson as the brainless, incredibly accident-prone title character. This time, Bean cuts a disastrous swath through three short, interrelated sketches. In the first, our hero Read More

1992
One Foot in the Grave: The Man in the Long Black Coat

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie

1991
One Foot in the Grave: Series 02

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman, Angus Deayton, Janine Duvitski

1990
One Foot in the Grave: Series 01

Actors: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman

1990
A Dry White Season

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Winston Ntshona, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando

Synopsis: Schoolteacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) has been insulated all his life from the horrors of apartheid in his native South Africa. Perhaps he really didn't want to know. When the son of his black gardener is arrested and beaten as a result of a schoolboy protest in Soweto, at first he Read More

9/20/89
How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, John Shrapnel

Synopsis: After years of capitalizing on the weaknesses of a gullible public, a London advertising executive finds that his worst qualities have literally taken on a life of their own in this scathing satire. Successful copywriter Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) lives a posh life with his lovely wife Read More

5/5/89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, John Woodnut, Eric Porter, Roger Hammond

Synopsis: In "The Red-Headed League," an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle produced in the Britain for Granada), Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) reprises his excellent portrayal of the famed detective Read More

1989
Fellow Traveler

Actors: Ron Silver, Hart Bochner, Imogen Stubbs, Daniel J. Travanti, Katherine Borowitz

Synopsis: Filmed in Britain, Fellow Traveller is set during the waning days of Hollywood's Communist "witchhunt". The film begins with the suicide of "unfriendly" movie star Hart Bochner; we then briefly flash back to the friendship between Bochner and his close friend, blacklisted writer Ron Silver. Read More

1989
Whoops Apocalypse

Actors: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to Read More

5/6/88
The Four Minute Mile

Actors: Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York

Synopsis: Richard Huw stars as Roger Bannister in this British TV biopic. Overcoming childhood paralysis, Bannister grows up to be one of the true legends of the athletic world. While holding down a fulltime physician's job in 1954, he finds time to become the first man ever to run the mile in four minutes. Read More

1988
Prick Up Your Ears

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Read More

4/17/87
L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Homme Qui A Vu L'Ours

Actors: Laszlo Szabo, Agnes Banfalvy, Richard Wilson

1987
Foreign Body

Actors: Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Geraldine McEwan, Denis Quilley, Amanda Donohoe

Synopsis: Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's Foreign Body. Jobless in Calcutta, Banerjee steals money from his own father to afford passage to Britain. There he makes contact with his cousin Warren Mitchell, who Read More

9/26/86
A Passage to India

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set Read More

1984
Professor Potter's Magic Potions

Synopsis: Love is truly in the air in this British comedy that follows the exploits of a strange professor in an English grammar school who creates powerful elixirs of love and also, a truth serum. Romantic mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Virginia Fly is Drowning

Synopsis: A single woman still living with her boring parents secretly dreams of sexual passion in this erotic drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Junket 89

Synopsis: Schoolboy Stephen Brassett travels to different lands by sticking chewing gum onto one of his teacher's inventions in this children's adventure film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1970