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...scenario for the film, Osborne has speeded the tempo by slimming the monologues; Director Anthony Page has gained added power by close-ups that pore over a human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells of mocking, melancholy torment that seem to see and sear every filmgoer in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Inadmissible Evidence | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

From its catalogue of "Plays We (and the Sponsors) All Know and Love," ABC also presented an adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. But what were they thinking about when they signed Britain's classical actor Nicol Williamson to play Lennie, the hulking, simple-minded American farm hand? That seemed a little like casting David Niven as Quasimodo. Well, in short, Williamson was an extraordinary Lennie. Of the trio of Britons who dominated the tube last week, his performance was the most remarkable. Bug-eyed and slackjawed, gangly and gawky, stammering and shuffling, he gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: Trio from Britain | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...MICE AND MEN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The TV version of John Steinbeck's novella of migratory farm life during the Depression, featuring George Segal, Nicol Williamson and Joey Heatherton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 2, 1968 | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...EVIDENCE is a compulsively fascinating dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving and caustically humorous-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, by John Osborne, is one man's violent outburst at how he has marred his life and how life has mauled him. Poisoned arrows of wit and vituperation fill the air, and Nicol Williamson is an actor-archer with deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 15, 1966 | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

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