Date of birth: 1942-11-24
Place of birth: Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Connolly, Біллі Конноллі, William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE, The Big Yin (The Big One), Sir Billy Connolly, 빌리 코놀리, بیلی کانلی, بیلی کانُلی
Billy Connolly (born November 24, 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist. In the early 1970s he made the transition from folk-singer with a comedic persona to fully-fledged comedian, a role in which he continues. He also became an actor, and has appeared in such films as Indecent Proposal (1993); Mrs. Brown (1997), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA; The Boondock Saints (1999); The Man Who Sued God (2001); Water (1985);The Last Samurai (2003); Timeline (2003); Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006); and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). Connolly reprised his role as Noah "Il Duce" MacManus in Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Connolly appears as the King of Lilliput in the 2010 remake of Gulliver′s Travels.
2003-12-05
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic
1998-10-30
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte
1995-06-16
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colo
2006-09-07
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. B
1993-04-07
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night
1996-02-16
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack
2009-11-24
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers
2006-11-10
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gaine
2006-09-27
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Seas
1999-01-22
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy
1981-01-01
From the days when he still had red hair and was rising to the peak of his career, this is one of Bi
1999-01-01
The very best of Billy Connolly's stand up comedy, from 30 years of performances around the world!
2005-11-14
Billy Connolly's pathologically devoted fans have helped make him the best-selling comedian around t
1985-10-26
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celeb
1982-01-01
Highlights from Pick of Billy Connolly concerts.
2002-02-10
Billy Connolly: Live in Dublin 2002 presents highlights from the Big Yin's 2002 stage tour. The prog
1982-11-24
Recorded in 1982, Hand Picked By Billy was recorded at the Cambridge Theatre in London on Billy's "T
1994-10-11
Filmed during Billy's record breaking twenty two night run at London's famous Hammersmith Apollo.
2000-06-09
A bad girl becomes a con artist, gets into trouble with the mob and taps a nice-guy florist for help
2008-07-24
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psy
2007-11-19
Billy Connolly's sensational show "Was It Something I Said?" was filmed in Adelaide on the Australia
1987-06-30
Billy Connolly, captured live on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall in July 1987, offering his own
1977-08-24
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, slic
2001-09-12
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is gett
2006-06-15
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruli
2003-08-16
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need
2003-11-26
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their p
1997-01-01
This 90 minute recording is excerpts of 45 minutes each from Billy Connolly's live appearances in Lo
2001-10-25
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck b
1999-06-25
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the
1998-10-02
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the
2008-09-24
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detou
2000-12-22
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could ha
2005-07-29
One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by
2004-12-09
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters -
2001-01-01
The career of the once successful classical portraitist, Kingdom Swann, has hit bad times. When a le
2012-06-21
In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Que
1983-10-27
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver
1984-06-12
Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles
2010-12-23
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput,
1998-10-02
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film c
1997-07-18
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John
2005-06-15
Documentary which traces the story of Live Aid from its humble beginnings, a pop tune cobbled togeth
2010-11-15
Finally, the wait is over. Billy Connolly, the King of Comedy, returns in his first brand new stand
2011-11-21
Billy Connolly’s most requested comedy clips – in addition to his first live TV performance. Billy i
2002-04-16
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix
2001-07-13
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for a
1985-01-11
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existen
1987-04-01
This is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London
1990-08-31
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
2011-04-13
A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuac
1978-06-05
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an
1982-03-01
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-
1979-12-22
A series of benefit concerts to raise money for Amnesty International. Performances include comedy s
2021-11-28
A study of the comedian and actor based on interviews, TV appearances, and stand-up performances fro
1997-09-25
A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dol
2012-12-26
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celeb
2014-12-10
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treas
2021-12-21
Billy Connolly invites us to his newly adopted home of the Florida Keys for an intimate look at the
1975-07-05
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swin
2012-11-13
The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben
2003-09-25
A collection of the funniest routines from Billy Connolly's three decades of stand-up comedy.
2004-10-10
Stand up comedy from Billy Connolly filmed live in Brisbane in 1999, plus a compilation of highlight
1976-10-11
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wond
2021-08-28
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the in
1985-03-01
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of
2005-04-14
An affectionate tribute to the Glasgow-born Cutler who has been Britain's best kept secret with his
1991-12-30
Sheer brilliance. Billy Connolly's razor-sharp mixture of bewildered surrealism and ultra-perceptive
1989-09-10
HBO stand up comedy presents Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly.
1993-09-19
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His inten
2022-10-26
Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips
2007-03-16
As part of Comic Relief 2007, the boys revived "Top Of The Pops" by having performances by Lethal Bi
2014-09-26
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's b
2010-11-08
One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher.
2001-08-13
A young boy believes he can save his dying father if he can become an angel.
1991-09-14
A rare comedy hour on HBO starring Scottish-born comedian Billy Connolly
2002-10-11
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing
The story of songwriting genius Matt McGinn. Featuring Robbie Coltrane among many others. Recorded
2009-12-28
A look behind the scenes of satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News.
1974-01-01
A panorama of the Clyde, from Biggar to Brodick, with Billy Connolly as your guide. Directed by Murr
1994-10-22
Jimmy Tarbuck parades his comic wares in front of a celebrity audience, including Cilla Black, Bruce
1997-01-17
Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of l
1998-12-31
Documentary profile of Stanley Baxter featuring his first in-depth interview for forty years and ext
1992-03-20
The story of seminal guitarist and singer Bert Jansch, from his early days in Edinburgh, Scotland, t
2001-01-01
Billy Connolly discusses his life, starting with his humorous public encounters and his early realiz
1999-05-27
In an evening of delights and insight distilled from a lifetime's viewing, Billy Connolly presents t
1991-03-24
Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a
2024-03-15
In 1980, two Cork outsiders, Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan, met at a New Year's Eve party. Bondin
1994-07-12
'Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland' chronicles Billy's 40 date concert tour and is a personal
2017-02-24
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
2004-12-16
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the
1995-01-01
Two Bites of Billy Connolly
2016-09-22
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for
2016-11-16
Stand-up legend, Billy Connolly returns in his ‘High Horse Tour’. Even at the age of 72, the legenda
1989-02-10
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures
2016-12-30
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over h
1997-03-08
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 D
2002-12-22
A BAFTA tribute celebrating the career of Billy Connolly.
2017-04-18
Fans from around the globe share anecdotes about how Billy Connolly inspired them, with contribution
1995-10-17
Concert from 1995 filmed during Billy's World Tour Of Scotland TV series , Live At The Usher Hall -
2017-06-14
Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo
2003-06-12
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Holly
1985-07-13
Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the Joh
2008-05-01
The name of the documentary comes from Drew's recording of "September Song", the Kurt Weill and Maxw
Midday with Ray Martin from 1985 - 1993.
1997-10-25
A profile of the Hippest band of the 60's and 70's as they prepare for a reunion gig.
2019-10-10
Hailed as the UK’s most influential comedian of all time, legendary Scot Billy Connolly is coming to
1980-12-27
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in
2020-01-10
Billy Connolly returns to Glasgow’s famous Kings Theatre, where his journey into comedy first began,
2018-12-13
Billy Connolly takes you on a tour of his home in Florida. The journey is intercut with Billy reflec
2020-04-04
Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temper
2005-07-13
This concert film was created for the London premiére launch of Live Aid on dvd in November 2004. It
Scottish documentary which tells the story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Celtic's
1986-04-25
In April 1986, inspired by the previous summer's bombastic Live Aid event and the success of Amnesty
1988-06-11
Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebr
2011-08-29
Gerry Rafferty, who died in January 2011, was one of Scotland's best-loved singer/songwriters, famou
1995-12-28
Comedian, actor and national treasure, Billy Connolly, travels to the wilds of Arctic Canada to spen
1989-04-12
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has over
2003-02-02
A portrait of Richard Thompson, co-founder of folk-rock group Fairport Convention and also an eminen
2020-12-28
As all-time comedy-great Sir Billy Connolly steps back from his legendary stand-up shows, this star-
1978-05-01
Early stand-up television special starring Billy Connolly
1998-01-01
Movie adaptation of the 17th century tragedy play, originally written by Thomas Middleton and Willia
1981-03-29
Organized by Paul McCartney and the United Nations, these concerts were in response to the 1975-79 K
2008-10-07
Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has
2022-12-31
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous
2008-11-09
Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy hig
1995-05-26
A tribute to Kenny Everett broadcast after his death from AIDS in 1995. Comprising of many of his cl
2022-06-25
Those close to Billy Connolly recall his career in comedy, acting and music.
1988-01-01
Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain.
2008-12-25
Comedy legend Stanley Baxter returns from retirement and returns to the Christmas schedules with a t