Nigel Hawthorne
Acting
Biography
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (April 5, 1929 – December 26, 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.
As actor 118
Play for Today
1970
Tony Awards
1956
Natural World
1983
Film '72
1971
Omnibus
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Parkinson
1998
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
ITV Playhouse
1967
Playhouse
1974
Demolition Man
1993
Tarzan
1999
Performance
1991
Dad's Army
1968
ScreenPlay
1986
Yes Minister
1980
The Black Cauldron
1985
Gandhi
1982
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
The Play on One
1988
Watership Down
1978
Firefox
1982
Russell Harty
1980
Holocaust
1978
Mapp & Lucia
1985
Man of the World
1962
Thomas & Sarah
1979
Call Me Claus
2001
The Madness of King George
1994
The Object of My Affection
1998
History of the World: Part I
1981
Richard III
1995
The Barchester Chronicles
1982
Animal Stories
1998
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Bill Brand
1976
Theatre Night
1985
Going Straight
1978
Twelfth Night
1996
Animal Stories
2005
Young Winston
1972
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
The Plague Dogs
1982
Madeline
1998
Marie Curie
1977
Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow
1996
The Desperate People
1963
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
Amistad
1997
The Hiding Place
1975
Play Things
1976
Occupations
1974
The Winslow Boy
1999
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
The Floater
1975
Victoria & Albert
2001
S*P*Y*S
1974
Spiderweb
1976
Victoria & Albert
2001
Jenny's War
1985
The Big Brass Ring
1999
Murder in Mind
1997
The Trials of Oz
1991
A Woman Called Golda
1982
Warrior Queen
1978
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
1983
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
The Other Side
1979
Protest
1981
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
Inside
1996
Sweeney 2
1978
The Fragile Heart
1996
Pope John Paul II
1984
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
King of the Wind
1990
The Tempest
1980
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
The House
1984
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
The Enigma
1980
The Spirit of Man
1989
Jenny's War
1985
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982
The Knowledge
1979
Higher Love
2001
The Chain
1984
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
1997
Turtle Diary
1985
The Happy Prince
1996
The Misanthrope
1980
RARG
1988
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
1981
Memoirs of a Survivor
1981
Portrait or Bust
1994
Dead on Time
1983
The Funny Side of Christmas
1982
Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey
1999
Child of Hope
1975
Jessie
1980
A Reasonable Man
1999
Destiny
1978
The Shawl
1989
Tartuffe, or The Imposter
1983
Alma Mater
1971
The Critic
1982
The Emergency Channel
1973
Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected
2013
The Sailor's Return
1978
A Handful of Time
1989
Buffet
1976
Relatively Speaking
1989
Flea Bites
1992
A Rod of Iron
1980
Late-Flowering Lust
1994