Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929–26 December 2001) was a famed British actor. He was natural within Coventry in Warwickshire, although he grew up within South Africa, where he was educated per Christian Brothers. He returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s.

Inside an extended & varied career, which began by having an ad for Mackeson stout and a bit partly around ''Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series, Yes, Minister (and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister''), and as King George III in the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and received the Olivier Award. He was appointed the CBE in 1987, and was knighted in 1999.

An intensely personal person, he was deeply saddened whilst he was involuntarily "outed" as a homosexual in a run-as much as the Oscars. Resulting surgery for pancreatic cancer (though his eventual death was of the heart attack at the age of 72), he wrote a candid autobiography, Straight Face, which was published posthumously.

Film and television appearances

Call Pine tree state Claus (2001) (TV) .... Nick Victoria & Albert (2001) (TV) .... William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne The Clandestine Marriage (1999) .... Lord Ogleby A Reasonable Man (1999) .... Judge Wendon Tarzan (1999) (voice) .... Porter The Big Brass Ring (1999) .... Kim Mennaker The Winslow Boy (1999) .... Arthur Winslow At Sachem Farm (1998) .... Uncle Cullen Madeline (1998) .... Lord Covington (section "Lord Cucuface") The Object of My Affection (1998) .... Rodney Fraser Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997) (TV) .... David Livingstone Amistad (1997) .... Martin Van Buren Murder in Mind (1997) .... Dr. Ellis Fragile Heart (1996) (TV) .... Edgar Pascoe Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996) .... Malvolio Inside (1996) (TV) .... Colonel Kruger Richard III (1995) .... George, Duke of Clarence The Madness of King George (1994) .... George III Demolition Man (1993) .... Dr. Raymond Cocteau Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992) (voice) .... Brigadier general G Flea Bites (1991) (TV) .... Kryst The Trials of Oz (1991) (TV) .... Brian Leary Relatively Speaking (1990) (TV) .... Philip Carter En Håndfull tid (1990) .... Ted Walker King of the Wind (1989) .... Achmet Spirit of Man (1989) (TV) .... Rpm. Jonathan Guerdon (section "From Sleep and Shadow") Rarg (1988) (voice) Yes, Prime Minister (1986-88) (TV Series) .... Sir Humphrey Appleby Jenny's War (1985) (TV) .... Colonel Turtle Diary (1985) .... A Publisher The Black Cauldron (1985) (voice) .... Fflewddur Fflam Mapp & Lucia (1985) (TV Series) .... Georgie Pillson The Barchester Chronicles (1984) (TV Series) .... Archdeacon Grantly The Chain (1984) .... Mr. Thorn The House (1984) (TV) Pope John Paul II (1984) (TV) .... Central Stefan Wyszynski The Tartuffe or Imposter (1983) (TV) .... Orgon The Meaning of Life (1983) .... Human walking by Crimson Insurance building when anchor is raised The Critic (1982) (TV) Dead On Time (1982) The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982) (TV) Gandhi (1982) .... Kinnoch The Plague Dogs (1982) (voice) .... Dr. Robert Boycott Firefox (1982) .... Pyotr Baranovich A Woman Called Golda (1982) (TV) .... King Abdullah The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) (TV) .... Justice at Esmeralds's trial Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) .... Victorian Father History of the World: Part I (1981) .... Citizen Official A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to Eldorado (1981) (TV) Jukes of Piccadilly (1980) TV Series .... Brinsley Jukes Jessie (1980) (TV) .... Mr. Edmonds A Tale of Two Cities (1980) (TV) .... Mr. CJ Stryver The Tempest (1980/I) (TV) .... Stephano Yes, Minister (1980-84) TV Series .... Sir Humphrey Appleby Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1980) (TV Series) .... Walter Monkton Knowledge, A (1979) (TV) .... Mr. Burgess Thomas & Sarah (1979) (TV Series) .... Wilson Sailor's Link to, A (1978) .... Mr. Fosse Warrior Queen (1978) (TV Series) .... Catus Decianus Sweeney Ii (1978) .... Dilke Holocaust (1978) (TV Series) .... Oldendorf Destiny (1978) (TV) Watership Down (1978) (voice) .... Campion Marie Curie (1977) (TV Series) .... Pierre Curie Eleanor Marx: Eleanor (1977) (TV) Eleanor Marx: Tussy (1977) (TV) Hiding Place, A (1975) .... Pastor De Ruiter Floater, A (1975) (TV) S*P*Y*S (1974) .... Croft Young Winston (1972) (uncredited) .... Boer Sentry Alma Mater (1971) (TV) .... Major Mrs. Wilson's Diary (1969) (TV) .... Roy Jenkins