Alan Williams (actor)
Alan Williams (born 1954 in Manchester, England[1]) is a British actor and playwright, who has performed in film, television and theatre in both the United Kingdom and Canada.[2]
Life and career
Originally from
He later moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, becoming a theatre professor at the University of Winnipeg.[2] His subsequent plays in Canada included The Warlord of Willowdale,[5] The White Dogs of Texas,[6] King of America,[7] Dixieland's Night of Shame,[8] Welcome to the NHL[3] and The Duke of Nothing.[9] He also took some acting roles in other playwrights' work, most notably appearing opposite Linda Griffiths in her two-person play The Darling Family[10] and its 1994 film adaptation by Alan Zweig.[11]
In 1996, his Cockroach trilogy was adapted into the film
Filmography
- Mistress Madeleine (1976) as Kirk
- The Darling Family (1994) as He
- The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati (1996) as Captain
- Getting Hurt (TV - 1998) as Paranoid
- Among Giants (1998) as Frank
- Elephant Juice (1999) as Gezzer-man on Tube
- Love in a Cold Climate (2001) as Religious speaker
- All or Nothing (2002) as Drunk
- Heartlands (2002) as Deno
- Sirens (TV - 2002) as DCI Struther
- Bright Young Things (2003) as Bookie
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV - 2003) as Stubberd
- The Last King (2003 TV mini-series) as Preacher
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) as Casino Royale director
- Vera Drake (2004) as Sick husband
- Derailed (TV 2005) as Ken Hodson
- A Waste of Shame (2005) as George Wilkins
- The Virgin Queen (2005 TV mini-series) as Doctor John Dee
- Grow Your Own (2007) as Kenny
- Personal Affairs (2009) as David Johnston
- Pulse (TV - 2010) as Charlie Maddox
- London Boulevard (2010) as Joe
- The Crimson Petal and the White (2011) as Colonel Leek
- Midsomer Murders (2011) as Ezra Canning
- Vera (TV series 1 episode 2 - 2011) as Michael Long
- Run for Your Wife (2012)
- Endeavour (series 1 episode 4 - 2013) as Cyril Morse
- The Crown (2016) as Professor Hogg
- Trespass Against Us (2017) as Noah
- Father Brown (2017-2020) 5 episodes as Blind ‘Arry
- Peterloo (2018) as Magistrate Marriott
- The Capture (2019) as Eddie Emery
- Chernobyl (2019) as KGB Deputy Chairman Viktor Charkov
- Casualty (2021) as Roy Scaddon
- Inside Man (2022) as Gordon
References
- ^ Alan Williams brings Girl to Winnipeg. In: mbplays.ca, January 6, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Success, Failure All Part of the Plan for Playwright". Winnipeg Free Press, 6 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Tall tales from outsiders; Performer-playwright brings acclaimed trilogy to Ottawa". Ottawa Citizen, 4 May 1988.
- ^ "Cockroach displays humor". The Globe and Mail, 20 May 1981.
- ^ a b "From Cockroach Trilogy to suburbia Williams battles theatre cliches". The Globe and Mail, 11 January 1984.
- ^ "Spontaneity sings in Williams's White Dogs". Ottawa Citizen, 5 May 1988.
- ^ "King of America gives audience unique lesson in hilarious history". Ottawa Citizen, 12 May 1998.
- ^ "Tall tales and home truths: The creator of the Cockroach Trilogy tries his hand at drama". The Globe and Mail, 22 August 1987.
- ^ "Playwright takes on Canadian theatre values". Toronto Star, 15 March 1991.
- ^ "'The act of theatre is an act of hope'". The Globe and Mail, 24 January 1991.
- ^ "Movie strikes balance in the abortion debate". Edmonton Journal, 7 December 1994.
- Montreal Gazette, 24 May 1997.
- ^ "Sweet Hereafter leads the Genie award pack". The Province, 5 November 1997.
- ^ a b "U.K. artist finds truth stranger than fantasy". Calgary Herald, 10 January 2015.
External links
- Alan Williams at IMDb
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