Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson (born July 9, 1936) is a British actor and theatre director, best known for playing the role of Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC situation comedy One Foot in the Grave.

He was born as Ian Colquhoun Wilson (or Iain Richard Wilson, according to an Internet Movie Database page (http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Wilson,%20Richard%20(II))) in Greenock[?], Renfrewshire, Scotland. When he went into acting, he had to change his name due to another actor already called Ian Wilson.

In 1994, Richard Wilson was awarded the OBE for services to drama as a director and actor.

In 1996, he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow for a period of three years. He was to be installed at a ceremony to be held on 24th April that year.

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 TV 2 Films 3 External links 4 Disambiguation section

TV

• Duck Patrol
• Emmerdale
• Father Ted (a cameo role as himself)
• Inspector Morse
• My Good Woman
• Normal Service
• One Foot in the Grave (as Victor Meldrew)
• Only When I Laugh
• Sharp Intake of Breath
• Tutti Frutti

He appeared as the Duke of Edinburgh in "Jeffrey Archer: The Truth", a television comedy drama[?] written by Guy Jenkin[?], which was first shown on BBC1 on the evening of Sunday 1st December 2002.

Films

• A Dry White Season
• A Passage to India
• Carry On Columbus
• Fellow Travellors
• Gulliver's Travels
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising
• Prick Up Your Ears
• Soft Top
• Hard Shoulder
• Watch That Man
• Women Talking Dirty

External links

• http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wilson,+Richard+(II) (Internet Movie Database profile)
• http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-30542 (TV Tome profile)
• http://www.tvheaven.ca/victor.htm (University of Glasgow Newsletter announcing Wilson's election as Rector)

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Disambiguation section

There are several other noteworthy people with the name "Richard Wilson", including:

• Richard Wilson (1713 - 1782), the Welsh landscape painter
• Richard Wilson[?] (born 1953), an English installation artist