Mark Williams (actor)

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Mark Williams
Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Born	1959 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Notable roles	Arthur Weasley in Harry Potter films.

Mark Williams (born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in 1959) is an English actor, comedian, scriptwriter and presenter. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford where he read English. He is best known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, The Fast Show. He also played Olaf Petersen in Red Dwarf and Kirk in Carrie and Barry.

More recently, he started to get notice from younger audiences when he appeared as Arthur Weasley in the second, third and fourth Harry Potter films.

On 3 July 2006 he appeared as an old roadie friend of Tommy Saxondale, in the third episode of the BBC comedy series Saxondale.

He is currently (August 2006) presenting a documentary series titled Mark Williams' Big Bangs on the history of explosives, a follow-on to previous series Mark Williams on the Rails, and Industrial Revelations.

[edit] Trivia

Williams is a fan of Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Williams can often be seen drinking at The Ladybird inn, in Bromsgrove.
Williams acted alongside Tom Felton in The Borrowers (1997) and now does again as Felton currently plays Malfoy in the Potter series.

[edit] Selected Films and Television

Privileged (1982)
Out of Order (1987)
High Season (1987)
The Storyteller in the episode "Fearnot" (1988)
Red Dwarf in episodes "The End", "Balance of Power" and "Stasis Leak" (all 1988)
Stuff 1988
Tumbledown 1989
Making Out (1990) in Episode #1.2
Kinsey 1990
KTYTV in episode "Launch" (1990)
Bottom in the episode "Accident" (1991)
Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991)
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer (1993)
Health and Efficiency in the episode "Cinderella Rockafeller" (1994)
Prince of Jutland (1994)
The Fast Show
Chef! in the episode "Masterchef" (1994)
Peak Practice in the episode "Life and Soul" (1995)
The Big Game (1995)
Searching (1995)
101 Dalmatians (1996)
The Borrowers (1997)
The Fast Show Live (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Canterbury Tales in the episode "Leaving London" (1998)
Ted & Ralph (1998)
Hunting Venus (1998)
The Strangerers (2000)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Industrial Revelations (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Mark Williams on the Rails (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Mark Williams' Big Bangs (2006)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)