One of actor Nicol Williamson’s earliest film roles was as Gunner O’Rourke, an unhinged, alcoholic Irish squaddie in Jack Gold’s The Bofors Gun. Conveying O’Rourke’s self-destructiveness was easy for Nicol Williamson. Nicol Williamson playing Richard Nixon in a play about the Watergate scandal called I Know What You Mean, which was braodcast in July 1974. Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson in Excalibur. But on his day he was probably the most exciting actor of his generation.

Source: The Irish Times March 28, 2018 05:48 UTC