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Paterson has also narrated for various television and radio programmes. In 2005, he would take a role as Rob McKenna, a lorry driver and unknowing Rain God, in Fits the 19th, 20th, and 22nd of
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the same year. Paterson would later recall that the biggest regret of his career was during this period, when in 1978 he failed to attend an audition for a role in the film
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Beginning with the first season in 2016 and ending with the second season in 2019, Paterson played the father of the main character and her sister in the
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and compared it to the recent financial turmoil of 2008. From 2009 to 2010, he appeared as
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debut in 1976 with the company. He appeared in the
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