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Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly

Birthday: 1942-11-24 | Place of Birth: Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

A Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Man Who Sued God (2001); Water (1985);The Last Samurai (2003); Timeline (2003); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Connolly appears as the King of Lilliput in the 2010 remake of Gulliver′s Travels. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Connolly , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Billy Connolly Does...

as    Himself

2021
2021
2020
Billy and Us

as    Self

2019
2018
2017
Dying Laughing

as    Himself

2016
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America

as    Himself - Host

2016
Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America

as    Hinself - Host

2014
What We Did on Our Holiday

as    Gordie McLeod

2013
Great Bear Stakeout

as    Narrator

2013
Quartet

as    Wilf Bond

2012
Brave

as    Fergus (voice)

2011
Billy Connolly's Route 66

as    himself

2010
Gulliver's Travels

as    King Theodore

2009
Open Season 2

as    McSquizzy (voice)

2009
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

as    Poppa Il Duce

2008
The X Files: I Want to Believe

as    Father Joseph Crissman

2007
Fido

as    Fido

2006
2006
Open Season

as    McSquizzy (voice)

2006
Fuck

as    Self

2005
The Aristocrats

as    Self