Nigel Hawthorne

Born: 1929-04-05

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nigel Hawthorne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the...

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The Black Cauldron

as Fflewddur Fflam (voice)
Released: 1985-07-24

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Watership Down

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The Plague Dogs

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The Madness of King George

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Madeline

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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A Woman Called Golda

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S*P*Y*S

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Released: 1974-09-05

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The Tempest

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Turtle Diary

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Victoria & Albert

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The Clandestine Marriage

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King of the Wind

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Released: 1990-05-25

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Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as Brigadier G (voice)
Released: 1992-08-14

The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked...

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The Knowledge

as Mr Burgess
Released: 1979-01-01

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

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Memoirs of a Survivor

as Victorian Father
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The Hiding Place

as Pastor De Ruiter
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The Big Brass Ring

as Kim Mennaker
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Pope John Paul II

as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Released: 1984-04-22

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Dead on Time

as Doctor
Released: 1983-01-01

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The Sailor's Return

as Mr Fosse
Released: 1978-11-15

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The Trials of Oz

as Brian Leary
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Jessie

as Mr Edmonds
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Murder in Mind

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A Handful of Time

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as Sir Percy Lorraine, British Ambassador
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as Major Lewis Rolfe
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The Emergency Channel

as Graham
Released: 1973-11-08

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The House

as General Fagg
Released: 1984-09-27

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Buffet

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as Self (Archive Material)
Released: 2013-01-15

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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

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Alma Mater

as Major
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as Walter Monkton
Released: 1978-11-06

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as Morris Shelman
Released: 1975-05-29

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Higher Love

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Released: 2001-05-02

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Late-Flowering Lust

as Cousin John
Released: 1994-05-08

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Protest

as Stanek / Vanek
Released: 1981-12-01

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Play Things

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Released: 1976-05-07

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Spiderweb

as Erik Lönnrot
Released: 1976-01-01

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Child of Hope

as Police Captain
Released: 1975-04-24

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The Enigma

as Fenton
Released: 1980-02-09

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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone

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Released: 1997-12-07

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Russia's War - Blood Upon the Snow

as Narrator
Released: 1995-01-27

An account of the Eastern Front, epic in scale and savagery, as Soviets experienced it and...

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as Libertini
Released: 1974-09-01

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Relatively Speaking

as Philip Carter
Released: 1989-12-24

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The Spirit of Man

as Rev. Jonathan Guerdon
Released: 1989-08-23

In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with...

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The Misanthrope

as Philinte
Released: 1980-01-27

One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Winner
First aired: 1956-04-01

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Play for Today

as Graham
First aired: 1970-10-15

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Play for Today

as Major Lewis Rolfe
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Jack
First aired: 1970-10-15

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Play for Today

as Morris Shelman
First aired: 1970-10-15

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Play for Today

as Police Captain
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Stanek / Vanek
First aired: 1970-10-15

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Play for Today

as Fulton
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Natural World

as Narrator
First aired: 1983-10-30

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Charles Drummond
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Mr Sneer
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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Performance

as Brian Leary
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Holocaust

as Ohldendorf
First aired: 1978-04-16

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...

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Parkinson

as Self
First aired: 1998-01-09

Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

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Yes, Prime Minister

as Sir Humphrey Appleby
First aired: 1986-01-09

James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled...

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Yes Minister

as Sir Humphrey Appleby
First aired: 1980-02-25

Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with...

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The Play on One

as John
First aired: 1988-01-19

A series of plays specially written for television.

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Animal Stories

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1998-05-22

Animal Stories is a British pre-school animated television series. Cartoon Network TOO began...

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

as Walter Monkton
First aired: 1978-11-08

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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Bill Brand

as Browning
First aired: 1976-06-07

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as...

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The Fragile Heart

as Dr. Edgar Pascoe
First aired: 1996-11-06

Edgar Pascoe is a highly successful and charismatic cardiac surgeon. Pre-eminent in his field,...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Magistrate
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Man of the World

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-09-29

Man of the World was an ATV drama series, distributed by ITC Entertainment. The show ran in the...

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Going Straight

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-02-24

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker...

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Mapp & Lucia

as uncredited
First aired: 1985-04-14

Comedy, set during the 1930s, of social rivalry between two women in a small English town. New...

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The Barchester Chronicles

as Dr. Grantly
First aired: 1982-11-10

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into...

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Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow

as Narrator
First aired: 1996-06-20

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the...

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Victoria & Albert

as Viscount Melbourne
First aired: 2001-08-20

Lavish two-part dramatisation of the passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince...

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Jenny's War

as Colonel
First aired: 1985-06-03

Jenny's War is a 1985 war television serial set during World War II, made by HTV in association...

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Marie Curie

as Pierre Curie
First aired: 1977-08-16

BBC mini-series with Jane Lapotaire in the title role. The programme chronicles the work of...

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Warrior Queen

as Catus Decianus
First aired: 1978-02-20

Warrior Queen is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV from 20 February...

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