Nicol Williamson's Uncredited Role
I'm not a big fan of Neil Simon's plays, but I've always enjoyed Nicol Williamson's work. I noticed that he has an uncredited role in this film - is it a bit part / cameo, or is it something substantial?
shareCameo, but it's a key scene... he plays a suave Hollywood director (1:40 into the film).
shareAgreed. It's a cameo but a very important moment in the movie. Seems odd that Williamson would do a cameo like this but I would surmise that he did it as a favor to the director, Herbert Ross, who had just previously directed Williamson in the terrific film, "The Seven Percent Solution."
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I would surmise that he did it as a favor to the director, Herbert Ross, who had just previously directed Williamson in the terrific film, "The Seven Percent Solution."
He was memorable in "The Seven Percent Solution" and was very well regarded in quite a number of films through the seventies right up to and including Excaliber and then just seemed to disappear from the scene to a large extent. share
He was memorable in "The Seven Percent Solution" and was very well regarded in quite a number of films through the seventies right up to and including Excaliber and then just seemed to disappear from the scene to a large extent.
Williamson was one of those actors whose film careers never really lived up to his reputation on stage or his early promise. Apart from a couple of really spectacular performances (such as the filmed play Inadmissible Evidence), you only get glimpses of his reputation for being "the greatest actor since Brando" (as John Osborn described him) from the bit parts and second-rate films that Williamson did towards the later part of his acting career. share
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