Tom Wilkinson
Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (February 5, 1948 – December 30, 2023) was an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Wilkinson trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making his West End debut portraying Horatio in Hamlet (1980) for which he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He returned to the West End playing Dr. Stockmann in the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (1988) receiving a Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival nomination. Wilkinson received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Full Monty (1997) as well as two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actor for In the Bedroom (2001) and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clayton (2007). He became known as a character actor, acting in numerous films such as In the Name of the Father (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Patriot (2000), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Valkyrie (2008), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Denial (2016). In 2009 he won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for playing Benjamin Franklin in the HBO limited series John Adams (2008). His other Emmy-nominated roles were as Roy/Ruth Applewood in the HBO film Normal (2003), James Baker in the HBO film Recount (2008), and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in the limited series The Kennedys (2011).
Born: 05 February 1948 • Died: 30 December 2023
Played In
The Full Monty
Gerald Arthur Cooper
SAS: Red Notice
William Lewis
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
Dr. Bird (Voice)
Belgravia
Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst
Watership Down
Threarah (voice)
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Leslie
Burden
Tom Griffin
The Catcher Was a Spy
Paul Scherrer
The Happy Prince
Father Dunne
The Titan
Prof. Martin Collingwood
This Beautiful Fantastic
Alfie Stevenson
Denial
Richard Rampton
Snowden
Ewen MacAskill
The Choice
Dr. Shep
Jenny's Wedding
Eddie
Little Boy
Fr. Oliver
Bone in the Throat
Charlie
Unfinished Business
Timothy McWinters
Selma
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Felony
Detective Carl Summer
Good People
DI John Halden
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Author
The Lone Ranger
Cole
Belle
Lord Mansfield
The Samaritan
Xavier
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Graham Dashwood
WWII in 3D
Narrator (voice)
Space Junk 3D
Narrator (voice)
The Gruffalo's Child
The Fox (voice)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
IMF Secretary (uncredited)
The Conspirator
Reverdy Johnson
The Kennedys
Joe Kennedy Sr.
The Green Hornet
James Reid
Burke & Hare
Dr. Knox
Jackboots on Whitehall
Goebbels (voice)
The Debt
Stefan Gold
The Ghost Writer
Paul Emmett
The Gruffalo
Fox (voice)
44 Inch Chest
Archie
Duplicity
Howard Tully
Valkyrie
Friedrich Fromm
A Number
Salter
RocknRolla
Lenny Cole
Recount
James Baker
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Cassandra's Dream
Howard
Michael Clayton
Arthur Edens
Dedication
Rudy Holt
The Last Kiss
Stephen
The Night of the White Pants
Max Hagan
Ripley Under Ground
John Webster
Separate Lies
James Manning
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Father Moore
Batman Begins
Carmine Falcone
Piccadilly Jim
Bingley Crocker
A Good Woman
Tuppy
Stage Beauty
Betterton
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dr. Mierzwiak
If Only
Taxi Driver
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Pieter Van Ruijven
Normal
Roy 'Ruth' Applewood
An Angel for May
Sam Wheeler
Before You Go
Frank
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dr. Chasuble
The Gathering Storm
Sir Robert Vansittart
An Angel For May
In the Bedroom
Matt Fowler
Black Knight
Sir Knolte of Marlborough
Another Life
Mr. Carlton
Chain of Fools
Bollingsworth
Essex Boys
John Dyke
The Patriot
Gen. Cornwallis
David Copperfield
Narrator (voice)
Ride with the Devil
Orton Brown
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Brother Dutton
Shakespeare in Love
Hugh Fennyman
Jilting Joe
Wyatt
Rush Hour
Griffin
The Governess
Mr. Charles Cavendish
Oscar and Lucinda
Hugh Stratton
Cold Enough for Snow
Hugh Lloyd
Wilde
Marquess of Queensberry
The Full Monty
Gerald Arthur Cooper
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Prof. Loyen
The Ghost and the Darkness
Sir Robert Beaumont
Crossing the Floor
David Hanratty
Eskimo Day
Hugh
Sense and Sensibility
Mr. Dashwood
A Very Open Prison
David Hanratty
Priest
Father Matthew Thomas
Martin Chuzzlewit
Seth Pecksniff
Measure for Measure
Duke Vincentio
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Father McAteer
A Business Affair
Bob
Prince of Jutland
Hardvendel
In the Name of the Father
Appeal Prosecutor
Resnick: Rough Treatment
DI Charlie Resnick
An Exchange of Fire
President Slajek
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
Gerald Lacklander
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Buckingham (voice)
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
DI Charlie Resnick
Performance
Duke Vincentio
Prime Suspect
Peter Rawlins
Paper Mask
Dr. Thorn
Counterstrike
TECX
Hugo Gillon
Sometime in August
Dr. Middleton
First and Last
Stephen
Stay Lucky
Allon
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Silberbauer
The Woman He Loved
Ernest Simpson
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Robert Hathall
Inspector Morse
Jake Normington
First Among Equals
Raymond Gould
Lovejoy
Ashley Wilkes
Sylvia
Keith
Happy Families
Jack
Wetherby
Roger Braithwaite
Parker
Tom
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Detective Inspector Neele
Screen Two
Dr. Middleton
Screen Two
Father McAteer
Screen Two
Home Secretary
Screen Two
David Hanratty
Screen Two
Father Matthew Thomas
Travelling Man
'Granny' Jackson
Sakharov
Sharma and Beyond
Vivian Archer
Squaring the Circle
Rulewski
Strangers and Brothers
George Passant
Spyship
Martin Taylor
Letting the Birds Go Free
Eddie
All for Love
Eddie
The Shadow-Line
Ransome
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
The Man Who Saved Paris
Lester
The Liar
Trefusis