Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne was an English actor.
20 Facts About Nigel Hawthorne
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Nigel Hawthorne is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.
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Nigel Hawthorne won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying King George III in The Madness of King George.
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Nigel Hawthorne later won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor, for the 1996 series The Fragile Heart.
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Nigel Hawthorne was an Olivier Award and Tony Award winner for his work in theatre.
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When Nigel Hawthorne was three years old, the family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where his father had bought a practice.
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Nigel Hawthorne described his time at the latter as not being a particularly happy experience.
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Nigel Hawthorne enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he met and sometimes acted in plays with Theo Aronson, but withdrew and returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue a career in acting.
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Nigel Hawthorne made his professional stage debut in 1950, playing Archie Fellows in a Cape Town production of The Shop at Sly Corner.
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Nigel Hawthorne supplemented his income by appearing in television advertisements, including one for Mackeson Stout.
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Nigel Hawthorne returned to the New York stage in 1990 in Shadowlands and won the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Nigel Hawthorne became a household name throughout the United Kingdom, which finally opened the doors to film roles.
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In 1982, Nigel Hawthorne appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, alongside a distinguished international cast including Martin Sheen, John Mills, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Ian Charleson and Ben Kingsley.
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Nigel Hawthorne won a sixth BAFTA for the 1996 TV mini-series The Fragile Heart.
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Nigel Hawthorne was a voice actor, and lent his voice to two Disney films: Fflewddur Fflam in The Black Cauldron and Professor Porter in Tarzan.
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Nigel Hawthorne voiced Captain Campion in the animated film adaptation of Watership Down.
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Nigel Hawthorne died from a heart attack at his home on 26 December 2001, aged 72.
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Nigel Hawthorne had recently undergone several operations for pancreatic cancer, which he was diagnosed with in mid-2000, but had been discharged from hospital for the Christmas holidays.
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Nigel Hawthorne was survived by Bentham, and his funeral service was held at St Mary's, the Parish Church of Thundridge near Ware, Hertfordshire, following which he was cremated at Stevenage Crematorium.
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Nigel Hawthorne's funeral was attended by Derek Fowlds, Maureen Lipman, Charles Dance, Loretta Swit and Frederick Forsyth along with friends and local people.