"The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles."
Richard Wilson, OBE (born 9 July 1936 in Greenock, Scotland) is a veteran Scottish actor. He is most known for playing Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave (it is said that he's constantly hounded to say the character's Catchphrase "I don't believe it"), though younger audience may recognise him as the royal physician Gaius in Merlin. Besides acting, he also works as a theatre director and was Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Richard Wilson is known to be very active politically. He's a supporter of various right groups for LGBT and people with disability.
Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
Films- A Passage to India (1984) — Turton
- Prick Up Your Ears (1987) — Psychiatrist
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) — Bristol
- Carry On Columbus (1992) — Don Juan Felipe
- The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) — Sir Roger Daggenhurst
- Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) — Mr. Capulet
- Sherlock Gnomes (2018) — Mr. Capulet
Series
- The Sweeney (1978) — Detective Chief Inspector Anderson
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978) — Mr. Harris
- Screen Two (1985 and 1990) — Theodore Watts-Dunton/Sir Hugo Armstrong/Lebedev
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985) — Duncan Ross
- The Last Place on Earth (1985) — Scott Keltie
- Emmerdale (1986) — Mr. Hall
- Tutti Frutti (1987) — Eddie Clockerty
- The Play on One (1988) — Max
- One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) — Victor Meldrew
- Cluedo (1991) — Reverend Jonathan Green
- Mr. Bean (1992) — Dentist
- Inspector Morse (1992) — Brian Thornton
- The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992-94) — Mr. MacGregor
- Father Ted (1998) — As Himself
- In the Red (1998) — Lord Tone
- Doctor Who (2005) — Dr. Constantine
- Kingdom (2007-08) — Professor Barkway
- Merlin (2008) (2008-12) — Gaius
- Demons (2009) — Father Simeon
- New Tricks (2009) — Father Bernard
- Children in Need (2009-10) — Gaius
- Trollied (2015) — Frank Uture
- The Crystal Maze (2019) — Father Christmas
