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William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor. Throughout his career he has appeared regularly in radio drama and provided the narration for a large number of documentaries. Paterson has appeared in films and television series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Traffik (1989), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The Witches (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019), Brassic (2020) and House of the Dragon (2022). He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Scottish BAFTAs. William Tulloch Paterson was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1945. Paterson was raised in Dennistoun by his father, a plumber, and his mother, a hairdresser. He states that his interest in acting began with a school trip to the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals in 1961. However, after school he chose to initially pursue a career based on an interest in architecture and spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before deciding to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
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Billy McAuley (Avalon)
for Billy McAuley (Avalon) in The Haar
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The Haar by David Sodergren is a folk horror novel about an elderly woman, Muriel McAuley, in a Scottish fishing village threatened by developers, who finds a mysterious, sentient ooze creature in a fog bank (the "haar") that helps her fight back with extreme, gory violence, blending themes of greed, love, loss, and body horror. It's described as a "gore-soaked folk horror fairy tale" with a mix of John Carpenter-style body horror and a heartfelt, emotional core, often compared to The Thing.
