Born July 9, 1936· Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
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Born Iain Carmichael Wilson in Greenock, Scotland, he pursued science at Greenock Academy, completed National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Singapore, and worked as a research assistant before turning to acting at 27; his formal training concluded with a RADA diploma in 1965. Wilson’s breakthrough came as the irascible Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, a role t…
