Bill Paterson was born in Glasgow in 1945. After a three year stint as a struggling apprentice quantity surveyor he escaped to the teaching course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
This was to be the start of a career in drama which has covered most aspects of the craft. He toured Britain with John McGrath’s radical and ground breaking company
7:84, appeared with
Billy Connolly at the 1972 Edinburgh Festival and he took Connolly’s play
An Me Wi’ A Bad Leg Tae into the Royal Court Theatre in London.
He has appeared in a vast array of films, amongst them,
The Killing Fields,
The Rachel Papers ,
Truly Madly, Deeply,
Miss Potter and
Amazing Grace.
Bill was one of the founder readers at Silksoundbooks.com and his unabridged audio book
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has become a real favourite with our listeners.
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