Scot Williams

Scot Williams

Born: November 29, 1972
in Liverpool, England, UK
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Scot Williams (born 29 November 1972), is an English actor, writer and producer for stage, film and television.

As an actor, Williams made his film debut in the 1994 Iain Softley film Backbeat, in which he played the role of The Beatle's original drummer Pete Best. Subsequently he later discovered that he was a distant relative of the late Alun Owen, who in 1964 received an academy award nomination for his Beatles screenplay "A Hard Day's Night".

In 1995 Williams played the lead role of Shaun Caine in the Jonathan Harvey play Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club. The play premiered at London's Donmar Warehouse before later transferring to The Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly.

In 1996 he was given the role of Joe Glover in the powerful television drama Hillsborough. Written by the legendary Jimmy McGovern, Hillsborough was based on the football stadium disaster of 1989 in which 96 Liverpool Football Club supporters unlawfully died and directed by the BAFTA and Emmy winning Charles McDougall. It went on to win dozens of awards around the world, including the 1997 Best Single drama BAFTA award.

In 1999 he played the role of 'Buddy' alongside Lisa Stansfield, Rita Tushingham and Alexei Sayle in the musical "comedy" Swing as well as the part of 'Patrick Callaghan' a one legged heroin addicted informer in the gritty crime "drama" Liverpool One. On playing a one-legged herion addict Scot said "it was a role I was destined to play".

2003/04 saw Williams feature in a trilogy of films written and directed by Peter Greenaway, called The Tulse Luper Suitcases. The first of which "The Moab Story" was an official selection for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. As well as a return to the stage in Chris Honer's award winning production of the Arthur Miller classic "All My Sons" at Manchester's Library Theatre.

In 2005 Scot played the lead role of the American Art authenticator 'Patrick Donovan', alongside Rutger Hauer and Malcolm McDowell in the Venetian set thriller "Tempesta" and also co-starred with Jesse Bradford, Sienna Guillory and Steven Berkoff in the horror film "Perfect Life"

In 2009 he starred in "Clubbed" alongside Colin Salmon and Maxine Peake, playing the iconic bleached blonde lunatic 'Sparky'. In Adrian Vitoria's 'The Crew' an adaptation of Kevin Sampson's novel "Outlaws" Scot played the lead role of 'Ged Brennen', a Liverpool gangster coming to terms with the changing face of crime. 2009 also saw Scot play the lead role of ex-Irish priest 'Sheamy O'Brien' in Maeve Murphy's "Beyond The Fire" alongside Cara Seymour. The film respectfully examined the loving relationship between two victims of sexual abuse and went on to win Best Film at the 2009 London Independent Film Awards. As well as this, Scot also popped up in the British gangster flick "Dead Man Running" alongside Tamer Hassan, Brenda Blethyn and 50 Cent.

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Movies for Scot Williams...

Title: Unwanted
Character: Carl
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: TV
A cruise ship rescues 28 refugees from the Mediterranean. When the captain is ordered to head for Libya, the situation escalates.
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Memory
Title: Memory
Character: Ellis Van Camp
Released: April 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom he can ultimately trust.
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Just Charlie
Title: Just Charlie
Character: Paul Lyndsay
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
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K-Shop
Title: K-Shop
Character: Jason Brown
Released: June 26, 2016
Type: Movie
After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.
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Taking Stock
Title: Taking Stock
Character: Mat
Released: February 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Kate is an out of work actress working in a shop, until that is, she is made redundant. In a week from hell Kate's boyfriend leaves her, the shop goes bust and rent and gas bills have not been paid. Inspired by the notorious outlaw Bonnie Parker, Kate gathers a gang from her shop assistant friends and comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but who is her Clyde?
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Redirected
Title: Redirected
Character: Michael
Released: January 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
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Hard Boiled Sweets
Title: Hard Boiled Sweets
Character: Johnny
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...
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Perfect Life
Title: Perfect Life
Character: Freddy Langham
Released: April 27, 2010
Type: Movie
About college students that experience horrifying visions from the past while undergoing a fraternity initiation.
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Beyond the Fire
Title: Beyond the Fire
Character: Sheamy O'Brien
Released: June 16, 2009
Type: Movie
From tragedy comes a burning love, but can passion survive the torment of a sinister past
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Clubbed
Title: Clubbed
Character: Sparky
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
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The Crew
Title: The Crew
Character: Ged Brennan
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
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Title: Meadowlands
Released: June 17, 2007
Type: TV
The Brogan family enters a witness protection program and are moved to a bucolic neighborhood to begin a new life, but they soon realize that it's not so easy to escape the past.
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Title: Lilies
Character: Father Melia
Released: January 12, 2007
Type: TV
Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the brink of change." Due to lower than expected ratings, the BBC did not commission a second series.
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A Life in Suitcases
Title: A Life in Suitcases
Character: Percy Hockmeister
Released: October 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
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Tempesta
Title: Tempesta
Character: Patrick Donovan
Released: May 10, 2004
Type: Movie
An American art appraiser, Patrick Donovan, is sent to Venice to evaluate three paintings belonging to the famous Galleria dell'Accademia.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Character: Percy Hockmeister
Released: February 9, 2004
Type: Movie
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Character: Percy Hockmeister
Released: August 31, 2003
Type: Movie
"Antwerp" continues telling the picaresque adventures through the world of multi disciplinary artist and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival as a separate title located between the first and the second part of the Greenanway Tulse Luper Trilogy.
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Title: The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Character: Percy Hockmeister
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
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Title: Merseybeat
Released: July 16, 2001
Type: TV
Merseybeat follows the fortunes of Newton Park police force, as the officers struggle to balance their demanding work and home lives.
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Title: Murder in Mind
Character: David
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
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In His Life: The John Lennon Story
Title: In His Life: The John Lennon Story
Character: Pete Best
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: Movie
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
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Swing
Title: Swing
Character: Buddy
Released: June 18, 1999
Type: Movie
When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
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Title: Springhill
Character: Nick Freeman
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: TV
Springhill was a British soap opera/drama, produced by Granada and broadcast in 1996/1997 on the Sky One satellite channel, and later on Channel 4. It consisted of 2 series, each containing 26 episodes. Set in Liverpool, Springhill based its main theme on the battle between good and evil, entwined around a complex family drama. Issues covered included adoption revelation, genetic sexual attraction, bigamy, homosexuality, infertility, surrogacy and murder. Aside from this there was a supernatural aspect, which included elements of religion, Angels, apparitions, witchcraft, time travel and the Second Coming of Christ.
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Hillsborough
Title: Hillsborough
Character: Joe Glover
Released: September 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
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Backbeat
Title: Backbeat
Character: Pete Best
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Bob Hall
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The Marcus Garvey Story
Title: The Marcus Garvey Story
Character: Theodore Bilbo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Explore the tumultuous life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a Jamaican political activist and advocate for Black Nationalism. From founding UNIA-ACL and finding prosperity through economic ventures to navigating financial hardships, assassination attempts, and politically motivated criminal charges, Garvey's impactful odyssey throughout Jamaica and America left an enduring imprint on history.
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A Patriot
Title: A Patriot
Character: Mason
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie