Most Recent Role: Father Joe on The X-Files
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland
Birthday: 11-24-1942
Birth Name: William Connolly
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland
Birthday: 11-24-1942
Birth Name: William Connolly
Billy was born in 1942 in Glasgow to William (an instrument technician) and Mary (a hospital cafeteria worker). Billy attended St. Gerard's Secondary School in Glasgow.
He work as a welder and boiler in the Glasgow shipyards before moving into a career in stand-up comedy and folk singing.
His popularity grew throughout the 70s and 80s, turning him into an international star by the...
Most Recent Appearance
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Friday 25 July 2008 on FOX
Coming Soon
As of 2008, Billy lives in New York with his wife and children.
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Billy features in the Top 100 wealthiest on the Vocational Rich List; the list of people who have made their fortune with only on-the-job qualifications.
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Billy met with a young fan in Dublin, as a result of the Share a Dream Foundation ... Janice Burke suffers from Cri-du- Chat Syndrome, and came to the National Theatre in Dublin to meet Billy.
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Billy contributed a Doodle to the National Doodle Campaign (2008), which auctions off celebrity doodles for charity (The Neurofibromatosis Association).
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In September 2005, Billy announced he was returning to live in his native Scotland, after residing in the United States for some years.
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Billy: The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
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Billy: Pat and Mick went up the stick and couldna get doon for skelfs.
Rough translation: Patrick and Michael climbed up a tree, but couldn't get down because of the splinters. (edit) Billy: I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys. (edit) Billy: I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered. (edit) Billy: I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place. (edit)
Rough translation: Patrick and Michael climbed up a tree, but couldn't get down because of the splinters. (edit) Billy: I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys. (edit) Billy: I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered. (edit) Billy: I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place. (edit)
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Head of the Class
Billy MacGregor |
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Late Night With David Letterman
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The Kenny Everett Television Show
Billy Connolly |
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3rd Rock from the Sun
Dial M for Dick Inspector Macaffery |
Aspel & Company
Billy Connolly, Christopher Reeve, Jimmy Tarbuck. Himself |
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Canada AM
November 13, 2006 Himself |
Columbo
Murder with Too Many Notes Findlay Crawford |
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Comic Relief
RND 2003 - The Big Hair Do Himself (report from Somalia) |
Comic Relief
Comic Relief's Nose At Ten Himself |
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Comic Relief
Comic Relief's Nose At Ten |
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Pearl
Billy Music |
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"One of the all-time greats"Superb One of the few comdian's who doesn't work with a script, who just goes out there and talks and some how it's funny. Continue » Posted Jan 8, 2008 5:31 am PST |
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