Richard Wilson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1862 |
| Birthday | 1936-07-09 |
| Place of Birth | Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | ریچارد ویلسون, |
1986
Foreign Body
4.643/7
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain a...
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Foreign Body
1986
Whoops Apocalypse
5.632/19
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 count...
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Whoops Apocalypse
1986
Murder by the Book
5.25/4
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally ki...
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Murder by the Book
2006
Love and Other Disasters
5.746/357
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her de...
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Love and Other Disasters
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little
6.35/602
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 un...
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
6.263/113
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1993
The Vision Thing
0/0
In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.
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The Vision Thing
2007
Reichenbach Falls
6.667/3
A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-bo...
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Reichenbach Falls
1992
Unnatural Pursuits
0/0
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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Unnatural Pursuits
2001
Women Talking Dirty
5.385/26
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
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Women Talking Dirty
1988
Normal Service
10/1
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly...
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Normal Service
1990
Kremlin Farewell
8/1
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retain...
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Kremlin Farewell
2013
Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army
0/0
Former National Service Conscript - actor, Richard Wilson - takes a light hearted look at this taste of the army, experienced by so many young men aft...
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Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army
1993
Selling Hitler
8/3
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop...
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Selling Hitler
2010
The One Ronnie
7.4/4
One of Britain's most enduring and best-loved comics, Ronnie Corbett, turned 80 in December 2010. In this brand new comedy sketch show, the octogenari...
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The One Ronnie
1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
6.292/12
Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name i...
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
2023
Sweetly It Turns
0/0
A kitchen-sink drama following the lives of a working-class family in Wolverhampton as they deal with change and the passing of time.
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Sweetly It Turns
2022
G♭
7/1
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...
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G♭
1970
The People’s Jack
0/0
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their...
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The People’s Jack
1988
Byrne About Byrne
0/0
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his s...
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Byrne About Byrne
1998
Ted & Ralph
7/6
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded s...
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Ted & Ralph
1970
The Day They Buried Cleaver
0/0
The Chief Constable of a grimy northern town runs it his particular way with all natural human failings, bending the rules for the benefit of the majo...
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The Day They Buried Cleaver
2006
A Harlot's Progress
4.65/10
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
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A Harlot's Progress
2015
Danny & the Human Zoo
6.4/6
A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
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Danny & the Human Zoo
1988
The Four Minute Mile
7.5/3
For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge....
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The Four Minute Mile
1970
Junket 89
6.4/5
Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accid...
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Junket 89
2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.333/18
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to dea...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1972
The Trouble with 2B
0/0
It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.
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The Trouble with 2B
1972
The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
0/0
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
1972
The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
0/0
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
1972
The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air
0/0
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air
1972
The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
0/0
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
6.7/106
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they sta...
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Prick Up Your Ears
1996
Lord of Misrule
9/1
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. Th...
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Lord of Misrule
2002
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
4.714/7
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
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Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2004
King of Fridges
7.5/2
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 holid...
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King of Fridges
1989
A Dry White Season
6.697/117
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 w...
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A Dry White Season
1984
A Passage to India
6.8/346
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city...
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A Passage to India
2018
Sherlock Gnomes
5.734/787
Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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Sherlock Gnomes
1992
Carry On Columbus
3.9/46
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...
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Carry On Columbus
2015
Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland
4/4
A varied history of gay people and Scotland.
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Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland
2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
5.902/2116
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 over...
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Gnomeo & Juliet
1983
Those Glory Glory Days
5.333/9
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the Englis...
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Those Glory Glory Days
1985
Poppyland
7/1
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 confine...
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Poppyland
1993
One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve
8.5/4
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them the...
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One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve
1976
Bet Your Life
0/0
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds tha...
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Bet Your Life
1980
Pasmore
0/0
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
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Pasmore
2002
Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
8/2
An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.
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Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
1994
Butter
8.667/3
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting fr...
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Butter
1975
Through the Night
0/0
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of...
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Through the Night
1989
Fellow Traveller
4.2/5
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept i...
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Fellow Traveller
2006
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
8.5/7
Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1980
Shaping Up
0/0
Chrissie and Colum are to be married tomorrow. Happy? ' I feel sick', says Colum. ' I feel sick', says Chrissie-but there could be another reason for...
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Shaping Up
1981
Virginia Fly is Drowning
0/0
Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are about to become reality when...
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Virginia Fly is Drowning
1976
The Portland Millions
0/0
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
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The Portland Millions
1992
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
7.5/4
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 1. The mischievous adventure of Peter Rabbit and his cousin, Benjamin Bunny in Mr. McGregor's garden.
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
1977
Caledonian Cascade
0/0
A bored upper class Edinburgh woman decides to rebel against societal conventions.
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Caledonian Cascade
2012
Confessions from the Underground
0/0
Documentary providing a rare glimpse into the depths of the London Underground as its staff strive under immense pressure to keep this hugely complex...
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Confessions from the Underground
1990
One Foot in the Grave: Who's Listening
8.5/1
The Meldrews become acquainted with a reverend who thinks he has lost his faith, and Victor learns more about a video shop clerk with whom he had a co...
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One Foot in the Grave: Who's Listening
1991
One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat
9/1
Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during a visit from a council health inspector, Victor l...
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One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat
1995
One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom Of The Witch
9.5/4
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 tr...
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One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom Of The Witch
1996
One Foot in the Grave: Starbound
9.125/4
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 deali...
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One Foot in the Grave: Starbound
1997
One Foot in the Grave: Endgame
8/4
The Meldrews make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbors; Victor buys a haunted caravan and accidentally kidnaps the mother of an India...
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One Foot in the Grave: Endgame
1993
One Foot in the Grave: Victor In The Bath
8/1
Victor muses about life while in the bath.
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One Foot in the Grave: Victor In The Bath
2001
One Foot in the Grave: Visiting Uncle Dick
8/1
Margaret is visiting a relative in hospital. Victor is his usual self, complaining about everything; and Margaret is her usual self, pretending not to...
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One Foot in the Grave: Visiting Uncle Dick
1970
Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows
0/0
Drama about the 1914-16 Irish uprising, from the perspective of Irish rebels and English military planners.
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Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows
1996
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse
0/0
"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,...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse
2010
Gerard Kelly: A Celebration
0/0
A celebration of the life and times of the actor Gerard Kelly, with contributions from his friends and colleagues. Gerard's career spanned nearly 40 y...
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Gerard Kelly: A Celebration
2000
I Don't Believe It!: The One Foot in the Grave Story
7/1
Documentary celebrating One Foot in the Grave
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I Don't Believe It!: The One Foot in the Grave Story
2004
The Best of So Graham Norton
0/0
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 adj...
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