Richard Wilson

Acting

Richard Wilson

Born 1936-07-09 · Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

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.

Acting credits

Gnomeo & Juliet poster
5.9

A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

Gnomeo & Juliet

2011

Sherlock Gnomes poster
5.7

Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

Sherlock Gnomes

2018

The Man Who Knew Too Little poster
6.4

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997

A Passage to India poster
6.8

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

A Passage to India

1984

King of Fridges poster
7.5

A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.

King of Fridges

2004

Danny & the Human Zoo poster
6.4

A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.

Danny & the Human Zoo

2015

Love and Other Disasters poster
5.7

Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.

Love and Other Disasters

2006

No artwork available
NR

A bored upper class Edinburgh woman decides to rebel against societal conventions.

Caledonian Cascade

1977

The Best of So Graham Norton poster
NR

Part talk-show host, part comedian, and all-out extrovert, the very Irish and very gay Graham Norton is one of the few people who deserves all the adjectives that are thrown at him: "bawdy," "saucy," "outrageous," and "hilarious" are a few of them. His BBC talk show, So Graham Norton, is something that you just couldn't find in America: a rampant exercise in audience titillation that wallows gloriously in bizarre human behavior. It's like an audience-interactive NC-17 Saturday Night Live, with occasional breaks for celebrity chit-chat. If you ever wanted to see Gillian Anderson, Cher, Sophia Loren, or Dolly Parton break the talk-show mold with bawdy sex talk, then your dreams have come true. And Norton's cringe-inducing yet compulsively watchable audience polls, which ask common folk to relate embarrassing, adult-oriented tales, reveal a European openness (and sense of humor) that just wouldn't fly in the U.S.

The Best of So Graham Norton

2004

Prick Up Your Ears poster
6.7

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.

Prick Up Your Ears

1987

A Dry White Season poster
6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

A Dry White Season

1989

Carry On Columbus poster
3.9

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

Carry On Columbus

1992

One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve poster
8.5

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.

One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve

1993

Whoops Apocalypse poster
5.7

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

Whoops Apocalypse

1986

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland poster
4.0

A varied history of gay people and Scotland.

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland

2015

How to Get Ahead in Advertising poster
6.3

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989

One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom Of The Witch poster
9.5

A witch predicts an untimely end for Victor; Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Meldrews, but Patrick gets stuck with Victor while trying to escape his secretary's jealous boyfriend.

One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom Of The Witch

1995

No artwork available
7.0

He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.

Poppyland

1985

G♭ poster
7.0

84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time staff shortage brings; he uses Grindr to invite 20-year-old rent-boy Iestyn to visit.

G♭

2022

Women Talking Dirty poster
5.4

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Women Talking Dirty

2001

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse poster
NR

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 8. The six fluffy babies of Benjamin Bunny are in great danger when Mr. McGregor put them in a sack, but the rabbit can manage it. At the same time, Mrs. Tittlemouse is in great danger as group of bees installed their hive in her very clean home.

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse

1996

Unnatural Pursuits poster
NR

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

Unnatural Pursuits

1992

One Foot in the Grave: Starbound poster
9.1

The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and dealing with very effective herbicide.

One Foot in the Grave: Starbound

1996

Junket 89 poster
6.4

Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...

Junket 89

1970

Behind the camera

Commitments poster
NR

Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?

Commitments

1982

Under the Hammer poster
10.0

All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.

Under the Hammer

1984

The Remainder Man poster
NR

Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.

The Remainder Man

1982

Changing Step poster
NR

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

Changing Step

1990

No artwork available
NR

A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex ‘n’ sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating “a wholly healthy Glasgow… a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?

A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

1988