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Nigel Hawthorne

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Biography

Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry in 1929, but moved with his family to South Africa soon afterwards. An authoritarian upbringing and brutal schooling…more

Born

4/5/1929, Coventry, England

Died

12/26/2001

Birth Name

Nigel Barnard Hawthorne

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (5)

Role
- Yes, Prime Minister
  Sir Humphrey Appleby
  - S 2: Ep 8 The Tangled Web
    1/28/88
  - S 2: Ep 7 The National Education Service
    1/8/88
  - S 2: Ep 6 A Patron of the Arts
    1/1/88
  - S 2: Ep 5 Power To The People
    12/31/87
  - S 2: Ep 4 A Conflict of Interest
    12/24/87
  - + 11 More Credits
- Mapp and Lucia
  Georgie Pillson
  - S 2: Ep 5 Au Reservoir
    5/31/86
  - S 2: Ep 4 Worship
    5/24/86
  - S 2: Ep 3 Lady Bountiful
    5/17/86
  - S 2: Ep 2 Change and Change About
    5/10/86
  - S 2: Ep 1 Winner Takes All
    5/3/86
  - + 5 More Credits
- Yes Minister
  Sir Humphrey Appleby
  - S 3: Ep 9 Party Games
    12/17/84
  - S 3: Ep 8 Short Episode
    1/4/84
  - S 3: Ep 7 The Middle Class Rip Off
    12/23/82
  - S 3: Ep 6 The Whiskey Priest
    12/16/82
  - S 3: Ep 5 The Bed Of Nails
    12/9/82
  - + 18 More Credits
- The Barchester Chronicles
  Dr. Grantly
  - S 1: Ep 7 Episode 7
    12/22/82
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode 6
    12/15/82
  - S 1: Ep 5 Episode 5
    12/8/82
  - S 1: Ep 4 Episode 4
    12/1/82
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode 3
    11/24/82
  - + 2 More Credits
- Edward and Mrs Simpson
  Walter Monkton
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Abdication
    12/20/78
  - S 1: Ep 6 Proposals
    12/13/78
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Decision
    12/6/78
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Divorce
    11/29/78
  - S 1: Ep 3 The New King
    11/22/78
  - + 2 More Credits
Recurring Role (2)

Role
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Archdeacon Grantly
  - S 14: Ep 7 The Barchester Chronicles (7)
    12/9/84
  - S 14: Ep 6 The Barchester Chronicles (6)
    12/2/84
  - S 14: Ep 5 The Barchester Chronicles (5)
    11/25/84
  - S 14: Ep 4 The Barchester Chronicles (4)
    11/18/84
  - S 14: Ep 3 The Barchester Chronicles (3)
    11/11/84
  - + 2 More Credits
- Play for Today
  Recurring Role
  - S 12: Ep 6 Protest
    12/1/81
  - S 11: Ep 13 A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
    1/20/81
  - S 8: Ep 15 Destiny
    1/31/78
  - S 7: Ep 7 Buffet
    11/2/76
  - S 5: Ep 21 The Floater
    5/29/75
  - + 3 More Credits
Guest Star (24)

Role
- Britain's Best Sitcom
  Sir Humphrey Appleby
  - S 1: Ep 5 Yes Minister
    2/7/04
- The Best Of British
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 4 Leslie Phillips
    2/24/02
- Funny Turns
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 6 Paul Eddington - A Life Well Lived
    7/15/01
- Parkinson (1998)
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 5 Nigel Hawthorne, Jane Horrocks, Patrick Kielty
    10/6/00
- Funny Women
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 2 Patricia Routledge
    7/1/98
- Heroes of Comedy
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 3 Alastair Sim
    4/30/97
- The Academy Awards
  Himself
  - S 67: Ep 1 The 67th Annual Academy Awards
    3/27/95
- Spirit of Man
  Rev Jonathan Guerdon
  - S 1: Ep 1 From Sleep and Shadow
    1/1/89
- Omnibus (UK)
  Himself - Interviewer
  - S 22: Ep 15 Gwen: A Juliet Remembered
    10/7/88
- The Morecambe & Wise Show
  Guest Star
  - S 19: Ep 7 1983 Christmas Special
    12/26/83
  - S 18: Ep 7 Nigel Hawthorne / Patricia Brake
    12/8/82
- Play of the Month
  Guest Star
  - S 15: Ep 4 The Critic
    8/23/82
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Magistrate
  - S 31: Ep 2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    2/4/82
- Tales of the Unexpected
  Charles Drummond
  - S 4: Ep 10 The Last Bottle in the World
    6/7/81
- Play for Today
  Mr. Edmonds
  - S 11: Ep 10 Jessie
    12/23/80
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Stephano
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Tempest
    2/27/80
- Thomas and Sarah
  Wilson
  - S 1: Ep 12 The New Rich
    4/1/79
- Going Straight
  Worm Wellings
  - S 1: Ep 5 Going, Going, Gone
    3/31/78
- Just William (1977)
  Mr. Croombie
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Great Detective
    10/30/77
- Hadleigh
  Oliver Mason
  - S 3: Ep 2 Second Thoughts
    6/29/73
- Eleanor Marx
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 2 Tussy
  - S 1: Ep 1 Eleanor
- The Legend of Tarzan
  Professor Archimedes Q. Porter
  - S 1: Ep 1 Tarzan
- Dad's Army
  the Angry Man
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones
    9/11/69
- Detective
  Temple Doorkeeper
  - S 1: Ep 11 Death in Ecstasy
    6/8/64
- Man of the World
  Assistant Director
  - S 2: Ep 1 The Bandit
    5/11/63
Cameo (1)

Role
- An Audience With...
  Audience Member
  - S 2: Ep 3 An Audience With Kenneth Williams
    12/23/83

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Trivia
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- Nigel Hawthorne won both the London Drama Critics Awards and Laurence Olivier Award in 1992 for his performance in The Madness of George III.
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- Nigel Hawthorn made his directorial début with The Clandestine Marriage, a hit 1995 London production.
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- Nigel Hawthorne auditioned each year for over a decade at the Royal Shakespeare Company's annual acceptance auditions, and was never offered a place with the company.
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- Nigel Hawthorne: (About his role in Inside) Not a particularly nice gentleman, as you may suspect. I remember growing up knowing there were characters like that around, brutally loathsome people who caused such fear. I wanted to make this film as my act of revenge on them.
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- Nigel Hawthorn: A lot of actors like to work out what they're going to do. I don't. It's very much like a tennis match. You don't know what you're going to do until the other person suggests things. That's the way I work in the theatre. It drives people mad.
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- Nigel Hawthorne: I think all the quirky things that I have in me, all my oddnesses and my mannerisms and my absurdities and my shortcoming and my weaknesses and my faults are all useful. They are the things that I tap into when I'm working on a role, they are what make up what I am, and I know them very well.
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