Actor William Tulloch Paterson is from Scotland. He has acted in a number of movies and TV shows, such as Comfort and Joy, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Truly, Madly, Deeply, Wives and Daughters, Sea of Souls, Amazing Grace, Miss Potter, Little Dorrit, Doctor Who, Outlander, Fleabag, Inside No. 9, Good Omens, and Brassic.
He has also appeared in the books Comfort and Joy and Outlander.
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In addition, he narrates the BBC’s yearly coverage of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. In 2013, he played Adam Smith at the Royal Court in the play The Low Road.
He provided the narration for The Farmers’ Country Showdown, a BBC series that was shown in the early months of 2017 and followed the agricultural show season.
Professor Edwin Bracewell, played by Paterson, appeared in the Doctor Who episode “Victory of the Daleks” in 2010 and then again in the first part of the season finale, “The Pandorica Opens.”
Later that year, Paterson provided the narration for the BBC Four nature film Birds Britannia. Paterson had the lead role in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me in 2011.
In the Starz historical drama Outlander from 2014, Paterson portrayed attorney Ned Gowan. In the television series Shetland, Patterson was cast as Douglas Henshall’s father in 2014.
Paterson has also provided narration for a variety of radio and television shows. In 2003, Paterson started telling radio stories on BBC Scotland called Tales From the Back Green about his upbringing in Glasgow, which led to Hodder publishing them.
