William Houston (actor)
William Houston (born 19 July 1968), sometimes credited as Will Houston, is an English actor. Born in Sussex, he grew up in Northern Ireland. Early life and career. Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Houston has played many leading classical stage roles, including Troilus in "Troilus and Cressida", Prince Hal in both parts of "Henry IV" and the title roles in "Henry V" (for which he was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Ben Jonson's "Sejanus", and "Coriolanus", all for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Pentheus/Agave in Sir Peter  Hall's production of Euripides' "Bacchai" at the National Theatre. He replaced Iain Glen in the lead role in "Fortune's Fool" at the Old Vic from January 2014. Between May and July 2014 he played Titus in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus directed by Lucy Bailey at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. In April 2009, he appeared in "Cause and Effect", the second episode of the third series of "Robin Hood". He also played the character of Boucher in the BBC's adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and South' with Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage. He appears in the  BBC series of Casualty 1909 and 1907, as Dr. Millias Culpin. He played Constable 'Clarky' Clarke in the 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes" alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, directed by Guy Ritchie (credited as William Houston), and reprised the role in the 2011 sequel "". He worked with From Software to voice cast as Marvellous Chester in the DLC for 2011's "Dark Souls", "King Vendrick" in 2014's "Dark Souls 2" and its rerelease "Scholar of the First Sin". He also voiced NPCs Retired Hunter Djura and the Gatekeeper in "Bloodborne" in 2015, and the optional boss enemy "Oceiros , the Consumed King" in "Dark Souls III" in 2016. In 2020, he played Ted Daszkiewicz in the BBC drama "The Salisbury Poisonings".