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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-04-05 (96 years old)

Place of Birth

Hertfordshire, England, UK

Nigel Hawthorne

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he would win four Bafta Awards during the 1980s in the 'Best Light Entertainment Performance' Category. In the 1990s He would win two more Bafta Awards, one as Best TV Actor for 'The Fragile Heart' and one as Best Film Actor for 'The Madness of King George'. His role in the latter also garnered him his sole Oscar Nomination.

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Known For

Acting

2013

Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected as Self (Archive Material)

2005

Once Upon a Halloween as Fflewddur Fflam
Animal Stories as Narrator (Orig. U.K.)

2001

Higher Love as Uncle Cullen
Victoria & Albert as Lord William Lamb
Victoria & Albert as Viscount Melbourne

1999

The Winslow Boy as Arthur Winslow
Tarzan as Professor Archimedes Q. Porter (voice)
The Big Brass Ring as Kim Mennaker
Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey as Sir Percy Lorraine, British Ambassador
A Reasonable Man as Judge Wendon

1998

Madeline as Lord Covington
Animal Stories as Narrator (voice)
Parkinson as Self

1997

Amistad as Martin Van Buren
Murder in Mind as Dr. Ellis

1996

Twelfth Night as Malvolio
Inside as Colonel
The Fragile Heart as Dr. Edgar Pascoe

1995

Richard III as The Duke of Clarence

1994

Late-Flowering Lust as Cousin John
Portrait or Bust as Himself (uncredited)

1993

Demolition Man as Dr. Raymond Cocteau

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Brigadier G (voice)
Flea Bites as Kryst

1991

The Trials of Oz as Brian Leary
Performance as Brian Leary

1990

1989

The Shawl as John
Relatively Speaking as Philip Carter
A Handful of Time as Ted Walker
The Spirit of Man as Rev. Jonathan Guerdon

1988

1986

Yes, Prime Minister as Sir Humphrey Appleby

1985

The Black Cauldron as Fflewddur Fflam (voice)
Turtle Diary as Publisher
Jenny's War as Colonel
Jenny's War as Colonel

1984

The Chain as Mr Thorn
Pope John Paul II as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
The House as General Fagg

1983

Dead on Time as Doctor
The Crimson Permanent Assurance as Passerby (uncredited)
Natural World as Narrator

1982

Firefox as Pyotr Baranovich
The Plague Dogs as Dr. Boycott (voice)
The Critic as Mr. Sneer
A Woman Called Golda as King Abdullah
Gandhi as Kinnoch
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Magistrate at Esmeralda's trial

1981

History of the World: Part I as Citizen Official - The French Revolution
Memoirs of a Survivor as Victorian Father
Protest as Stanek / Vanek

1980

A Rod of Iron as Trevor
A Tale of Two Cities as Mr. CJ Stryver
The Misanthrope as Philinte
The Tempest as Stephano
Jessie as Mr Edmonds
The Enigma as Fenton
Yes Minister as Sir Humphrey Appleby

1979

The Knowledge as Mr Burgess
Tales of the Unexpected as Charles Drummond

1978

Sweeney 2 as Det. Chief Insp. Dilke
Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Walter Monkton
Destiny as Major Lewis Rolfe
Watership Down as Captain Campion (voice)
Edward and Mrs Simpson as Walter Monkton
Warrior Queen as Catus Decianus
Holocaust as Ohldendorf

1977

Marie Curie as Pierre Curie

1976

Spiderweb as Erik Lönnrot
Buffet as Jack
Play Things as Tenby
Bill Brand as Browning

1975

The Hiding Place as Pastor De Ruiter
Child of Hope as Police Captain
The Floater as Morris Shelman

1974

Occupations as Libertini
S*P*Y*S as Croft

1973

1972

Young Winston as Boer Sentry (uncredited)

1971

Alma Mater as Major

1970

Play for Today as Graham
Play for Today as Major Lewis Rolfe
Play for Today as Morris Shelman
Play for Today as Police Captain
Play for Today as Stanek / Vanek
Play for Today as Fulton

1965

1963

The Desperate People as Cliff Fletcher

1962

1958

Carve Her Name with Pride as Park Soldier (uncredited)

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Winner

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Magistrate

Production

2001

Higher Love as Executive Producer

1997

Murder in Mind as Associate Producer