
Mark Williams
Acting
Born 1959-08-22 · Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, UK
Mark Williams (born August 22, 1959) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show. His film roles include Horace in the 1996 adaptation of 101 Dalmatians and Arthur Weasley in seven of the Harry Potter films. He made recurring appearances as Brian Williams in the BBC television series Doctor Who and as Olaf Petersen in Red Dwarf. Since 2013, Williams has portrayed the title character in the long-running BBC series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton.
Known for

Father Brown
2013 · TV

Industrial Revelations
2002 · TV

The Fast Show
1994 · TV

Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988 · TV

The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993 · TV

Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV

Mark Williams On The Rails
2004 · TV

The Strangerers
2000 · TV

Doctor Who
2005 · TV

The World's Strangest UFO Stories
2006 · TV

Blandings
2013 · TV

The Indian Doctor
2010 · TV

Red Dwarf
1988 · TV

Sense and Sensibility
2008 · TV

The Rotters' Club
2005 · TV

Great Expectations
1989 · TV

Mark Williams' Big Bangs
— · TV

The Musketeers
2014 · TV

Being Human
2009 · TV

Merlin of the Crystal Cave
1991 · TV

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV

Merlin
2008 · TV

Casualty
1986 · TV

Hustle
2004 · TV

New Tricks
2004 · TV

Peak Practice
1993 · TV

The Storyteller
1988 · TV

Bottom
1991 · TV

Sister Boniface Mysteries
2022 · TV

Chef
1993 · TV

Saxondale
2006 · TV

Comedy Lab
1998 · TV

Harry Enfield and Chums
1994 · TV

Shackleton
2002 · TV

Fantastic Friends
2022 · TV

Gormenghast
2000 · TV

Little Crackers
2010 · TV

Here We Go
2022 · TV

Happiness
2001 · TV

KYTV
1989 · TV

99-1
1994 · TV

Top of the Pops
1964 · TV

The One Show
2006 · TV

Loose Women
1999 · TV