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Also known as Ian Carmichael Wilson

Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster (1936)

Person · Open Library

Works
133

Top works

  • A short history of France
  • Shakespeare's Twelfth night, or, What you will
  • Mountain spirits and maize
  • A book of ships and seaman
  • Pen Pictures of British Battles

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Film & TV

Acting · 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.

Known for

  • Sweetly It Turns — Len2023
  • G♭ — Ceri2022
  • Remembers… — Self2022
  • Around the World in 80 Days — Grayson2021
  • Sherlock Gnomes — Mr. Capulet (voice)2018
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream — Starveling2016
  • Danny & the Human Zoo — James Broughton2015
  • Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland — Narrator2015
  • Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army — Self - Host2013
  • Confessions from the Underground — Self - Narrator(voice)2012

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1936
chicago soulclassic souldoo-wopnorthern soulpoppop soul

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
744
Total plays
2,594

Tags

spoken wordamericanacontemporary classicalAvant-Gardealt country

Richard Wilson is the composer of some ninety works in many genres, including opera. He has received such recognition as an Academy Award in Music (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Hinrichsen Award (from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Stoeger Prize (from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), the Cleveland Arts Prize (from the Women's City Club of Cleveland), and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent commissions have come from the Koussevitsky and Fromm Found

via Last.fm · Richard Wilson

Quotes

  • “Thank you,” she said icily. “I accept your good wishes and your resignation. And you can go to hell, Dave Hull.”Dave went to Texas.
  • I’d better get back to work. It’s like butting my head against a stone wall, but somebody’s got to keep butting, if only for the sake of other people’s morale.
  • You’re as nutty as a peck of pecans, ma’am.
  • We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
  • I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.
  • “‘Morning, Sam,” the coffee boy said. “How about some coffee?”“‘Morning, Herb,” I said. “That’s the first intelligent remark I’ve heard in some time.”

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