From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Scot Williams born 29 November 1972 is an English actor writer and producer for stage film and television As an actor Williams made his film debut in the 1994 Iain Softley film Backbeat in which he played the role of The Beatles original drummer Pete Best Subsequently he later discovered that he was a distant relative of the late Alun Owen who in 1964 received an academy award nomination for his Beatles screenplay A Hard Days Night In 1995 Williams played the lead role of Shaun Caine in the Jonathan Harvey play Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club The play premiered at Londons Donmar Warehouse before later transferring to The Criterion Theatre Piccadilly In 1996 he was given the role of Joe Glover in the powerful television drama Hillsborough Written by the legendary Jimmy McGovern Hillsborough was based on the football stadium disaster of 1989 in which 96 Liverpool Football Club supporters unlawfully died and directed by the BAFTA and Emmy winning Charles McDougall It went on to win dozens of awards around the world including the 1997 Best Single drama BAFTA award In 1999 he played the role of Buddy alongside Lisa Stansfield Rita Tushingham and Alexei Sayle in the musical comedy Swing as well as the part of Patrick Callaghan a one legged heroin addicted informer in the gritty crime drama Liverpool One On playing a onelegged herion addict Scot said it was a role I was destined to play 200304 saw Williams feature in a trilogy of films written and directed by Peter Greenaway called The Tulse Luper Suitcases The first of which The Moab Story was an official selection for the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival As well as a return to the stage in Chris Honers award winning production of the Arthur Miller classic All My Sons at Manchesters Library Theatre In 2005 Scot played the lead role of the American Art authenticator Patrick Donovan alongside Rutger Hauer and Malcolm McDowell in the Venetian set thriller Tempesta and also costarred with Jesse Bradford Sienna Guillory and Steven Berkoff in the horror film Perfect Life In 2009 he starred in Clubbed alongside Colin Salmon and Maxine Peake playing the iconic bleached blonde lunatic Sparky In Adrian Vitorias The Crew an adaptation of Kevin Sampsons novel Outlaws Scot played the lead role of Ged Brennen a Liverpool gangster coming to terms with the changing face of crime 2009 also saw Scot play the lead role of exIrish priest Sheamy OBrien in Maeve Murphys Beyond The Fire alongside Cara Seymour The film respectfully examined the loving relationship between two victims of sexual abuse and went on to win Best Film at the 2009 London Independent Film Awards As well as this Scot also popped up in the British gangster flick Dead Man Running alongside Tamer Hassan Brenda Blethyn and 50 Cent Description above from the Wikipedia article Scot Williams licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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