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Actor Born: September 14, 1938 in Hamilton, Scotland Biography:Trained at the RSC, Scottish actor "Nicol Williamson" made his professional bow with the Dundee rep in 1960. The following year, he performed with the Arts Theatre at Cambridge, and also made his London debut. His first major success came in 1964 with John Obsorne's "Inadmissible Evidence". He won a Tony award for his performance in the Osborne play when it transferred to Broadway in 1965, and three years later repeated his characterization for the film version. Williamson's 1968 staging of "Hamlet", which like "Evidence" played in both London and New York, was immensely popular and enormously controversial; old-timers still speak of the night when, halfway through a soliloquy, Williamson brusquely apologized for his "bad" performance and stormed offstage. In films from 1964, Williamson has played a cocaine-benumbed Sherlock Holmes in The 7 Percent Solution (1977), an introspective Little John in... Full Biography
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