1. Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith was a British film and television actor and author.
23 Facts About Tim Pigott-Smith
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Tim Pigott-Smith was best known for his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1985.
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Tim Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the son of Margaret Muriel and Harry Thomas Tim Pigott-Smith, who was a journalist.
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Tim Pigott-Smith was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School, Leicester, King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon and Bristol University.
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Tim Pigott-Smith trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Tim Pigott-Smith appeared in two adaptations of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South; in the 1975 version he played Frederick Hale, and in 2004 he played Frederick's father Richard.
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Tim Pigott-Smith appeared twice in Doctor Who: in the stories The Claws of Axos and The Masque of Mandragora.
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Tim Pigott-Smith narrated The Team: A Season with McLaren, a six-episode BBC series about the 1993 season with McLaren Racing.
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Tim Pigott-Smith narrated the Battlefield series, which examines pivotal battles of the Second World War from an operations point of view.
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Tim Pigott-Smith appeared in Lewis in 2015 as a taxidermist in the episode "One For Sorrow".
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Tim Pigott-Smith appeared as Major General Robert Ford in director Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, and as the Foreign Secretary in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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In February 2010 Tim Pigott-Smith played Alan Keen in the television film On Expenses.
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Tim Pigott-Smith had a cameo appearance as Sniggs in the BBC production of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall in 2017.
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Tim Pigott-Smith worked in the theatre in Shakespearean and Greek roles, including Posthumus in John Barton's 1974 production of Cymbeline for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Tim Pigott-Smith produced and appeared in Saki: a celebration at the National Theatre, with Dirk Bogarde, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Zoe Wanamaker, later issued as an audio book.
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Tim Pigott-Smith returned to the Almeida in 2014 as a post-accession Charles, Prince of Wales in King Charles III, for which he received a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Actor, and his first Tony Award nomination for its production on Broadway in 2015.
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Tim Pigott-Smith appeared as Charles in the 2017 film adaptation of the play.
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Tim Pigott-Smith was a radio actor, appearing in many productions on BBC Radio 4.
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Tim Pigott-Smith played Holmes in a BBC Radio adaptation of The Valley of Fear.
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Tim Pigott-Smith died on 7 April 2017 at age 70 from a heart attack in Northampton, where he had been preparing to appear in a touring production of Death of a Salesman that was set to begin three days later.
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Tim Pigott-Smith is buried on the east side of Highgate Cemetery.
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Tim Pigott-Smith won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1985, for his role in The Jewel in the Crown.
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Tim Pigott-Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama.