Bill Thomas

Bill Thomas is an English actor whose career took in stage, screen and television. Born in London in 1952, he spent forty six years as a professional, playing hundreds of characters in films, theater, television and commercials. On television he was Tom Henshall across four seasons of the BBC drama Cutting It and Charles Quance in three seasons of The House of Eliott, and he also appeared in Emmerdale, Doctors, Heartbeat, The Bill and Midsomer Murders. His films included the lead in Weak at Denise, the part of Branick Hammond in The Sky in Bloom, Syrup, which earned an Academy Award nomination for best short live action feature in 1994, and Loving Vincent (2017), in which he played Dr Mazery. That film was nominated for an Oscar. On stage he played Ironside in Ronald Harwood's An English Tragedy, led Dragon at the Olivier for the Royal National Theatre, and was Arturo Ui at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton.