Career
His popularity began on BBC Radio Ulster in 1991 when he began writing and broadcasting humorous monologues as The Bard of Tyrone Over a period of six years he wrote and performed over 200 poems. As a direct result of this he was asked to appear at the Belfast Festival at Queens University Belfast (QUB) and on the BBC Radio Ulster programme, Laugh a Minute.
Caulfield became one of the busiest warm up men for both BBC and UTV on shows such as "The Kelly Show" Get it Right Next Time, Town Challenge, The Daniel O'Donnell Show, Give my Head Peace, Saints and Scholars, Scots Irish Evenings and The 11+ Show.
He has appeared on The Gerry Kelly Show, McKeever Show and All Mixed Up for UTV and Pass it On, Town Challenge and The Big Science Quiz for the BBC. He interviewed Jade Goody for Channel 4 in What Jade Did Next.
He then made a decision to stop doing warm up and concentrate on making his own shows for T.V and Radio. This resulted in An Evening with James Young and a four-part series Our William both on BBC 1 NI. His most recent work for the BBC is 'It's William Caulfield- so it is' an ongoing comedy series for Radio Ulster,nominated for a PPI Radio Award
Caulfield is well established in theatre playing Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Frank in Annie Get Your Gun, all for Enniskillen's Light Operatic Society. Other stage roles include Look Who's Talking, Da and Playboy of the Western World.
He has appeared in Pantomime in Belfast in the Waterfront Hall (2001–2003), Grand Opera House (2004–2005) and returns now each year to Derry in the Millennium Forum since 2006.
As a busy stand up comedian he tours every year with a brand new show around the theatres and plays to packed houses.
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