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Birth Name: Thomas Nicol Williamson
Date of Birth: 14 September, 1936
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Date of Death: 16 December, 2011
Place of Death: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ethnicity: Scottish
Nicol Williamson was a Scottish actor. A highly-acclaimed stage actor, his roles also included the films The Reckoning , Laughter in the Dark , Hamlet (1969), The Jerusalem File , The Monk (1972), The Wilby Conspiracy , Robin and Marian , The Seven-Per-Cent Solution , The Goodbye Girl , The Cheap Detective , The Human Factor , Excalibur , Venom (1981), I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can , Return to Oz , Black Widow (1987), The Exorcist III , The Hour of the Pig , The Wind in the Willows (1996), and Spawn (1997); and television’s The Word (1978), Macbeth (1983), Sakharov (1984), Christopher Columbus (1985), and Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy .
Nicol was born in Hamilton, Scotland, the son of Mary Brown Hill (Storrie) and Hugh Williamson, who operated an aluminium manufacturing plant, and was a hairdresser’s assistant. His family moved to Birmingham, England, when he was a year and a half. He also lived in his native Hamilton, to avoid the Blitz, during WWII, returning to Birmingham after the war. Nicol had a son with his former wife, actress Jill Townsend.