1. Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.
24 Facts About Nigel Patrick
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Nigel Patrick featured in The Sound Barrier, under the direction of David Lean.
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Nigel Patrick made his professional stage debut in The Life Machine at the Regent Theatre, in Kings Cross, London, in 1932 following a period in repertory.
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Nigel Patrick starred in the long-running George and Margaret at the Wyndham's Theatre, which ran for 799 performances.
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Nigel Patrick followed it with Tony Draws a Horse and Children to Bless You.
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Nigel Patrick's acting career was put on hold until after service in the Second World War, during which, as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, he fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.
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Nigel Patrick had film roles in Spring in Park Lane, Uneasy Terms and notably Noose playing a spiv.
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Nigel Patrick had a good part in Silent Dust and was promoted to star for The Jack of Diamonds, which he co-wrote.
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Nigel Patrick supported Patricia Roc in The Perfect Woman, and had a key role in the film version of Morning Departure.
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Nigel Patrick was the young teacher in The Browning Version with Michael Redgrave, and appeared in a popular comedy Young Wives' Tale.
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Nigel Patrick was then in Meet Me Tonight and The Pickwick Papers.
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Nigel Patrick was in Grand National Night and was the ninth most popular British star.
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Nigel Patrick supported Richard Widmark in A Prize of Gold for Warwick Films, who announced Patrick might direct In All Dishonesty for them on stage.
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Nigel Patrick had a major role in Raintree County.
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For Warwick Films, Nigel Patrick starred in and directed How to Murder a Rich Uncle.
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Nigel Patrick supported Jeffrey Hunter in Count Five and Die and appeared in The Egg on stage.
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Nigel Patrick made another for Warwick but as an actor only, The Man Inside, with Jack Palance.
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On stage Nigel Patrick directed No Way to Kill and Not in the Book and acted in and directed Pleasure of His Company.
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Nigel Patrick starred in Sapphire, winner of Best British Film at the 1960 BAFTA Film Awards.
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Nigel Patrick made another for Warwick as an actor, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, then made Johnny Nobody for them as director and actor.
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Nigel Patrick was in Zero One on TV and starred in the tough crime thriller The Informers.
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Nigel Patrick appeared on stage in The Schoolmistress and Present Laughter and he directed Past Imperfect and Present Laughter and Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking at the Duke of York's Theatre.
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Nigel Patrick married the actress Beatrice Campbell at St James's, Spanish Place, Marylebone, London on 12 January 1951.
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Nigel Patrick predeceased him in 1979; he died, two years later, from lung cancer, on 21 September 1981.