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Nigel Hawthorne Biography (1929-2001)
Full name, Nigel Barnard Hawthorne; born April 5, 1929, in Coventry, England;raised in Cape Town, South Africa; son of Charles Barnard (a physician) andAgnes Rosemary (maiden name, Rice) Hawthorne; companion of Trevor Bentham (awriter). Avocational interests: Drawing, gardening, writing, tennis, swimming. Career: Actor and producer. Awards, Honors: Clarence Derwent Award and SWET Award, for best supporting actor, 1977, both for Privates on Parade; Broadcasting Press Guild TV Award, best actor, 1980, British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, television light entertainment performance, 1981-82, 1986-87, all for Yes, Minister; BroadcastingPress Guild Award, best actor, c. 1981; University of Sheffield, M.A. (honorary), 1987; named Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1987; Outer Critics Circle Award, outstanding actor in a play on or off Broadway, Antoinette Perry Award, best performance by a leading actor in a play, and Laurence Olivier Award nomination, 1991, all for Shadowlands; Laurence Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award, Plays and Players Magazine Award,and Time Out's Readers Award, 1992, all for The Madness of George III;Leicester University, M.A. (honorary) and Hertfordshire University, M.A. (honorary), 1992; Academy Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, best performance by an actor in a leading role, 1995, both forThe Madness of King George; National Arts Club Gold Medal, 1996; British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, best actor, for The FragileHeart; knighted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1999. Addresses: Agent: KenMcReddie, 91 Regent St., London W1R 7TB, England.
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- actor, producer
- Birth Details
- April 5, 1929
- Coventry, England
- Death Details
- December 26, 2001
- London, England
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Stage Appearances
- (Stage debut) Archie Fellowes, The Shop at Sly Corner, Hofmeyr Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa, 1950
- (London debut) Donald, You Can't Take It with You, Embassy Theatre, 1951
- Fancy Dan, Talking to You, Duke of York's Theatre, London, 1962
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Nymphs and Satires, Apollo Theatre, London, 1965
- Angry Neighbor, In at the Death, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1967
- Sir Oswald Stoll, The Marie Lloyd Story, Theatre Royal, Stratford,England, 1967
- Roy Jenkins, Mrs. Wilson's Diary, Criterion Theatre, London, 1967
- Prince Albert, Early Morning, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1968
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Total Eclipse, Royal Court Theatre, 1968
- Count Wermuth, The Tutor, Royal Court Theatre, 1968
- Lord Touchwood, The Double Dealer, Royal Court Theatre, 1968
- Prince Albert, Early Morning, Royal Court Theatre, 1969
- Commander Pemberton, Insideout, Royal Court Theatre, 1969
- Commodore, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Royal Court Theatre, 1969
- Falstaff, Henry IV, Sheffield Playhouse, London, 1970
- Title role, Macbeth, Sheffield Playhouse, 1970
- Niall, Curtains, Traverse Theatre, 1970then Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, 1970later at Open Space Theatre, London, 1971
- The Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Cambridge Theatre, London, 1971
- Christopher, West of Suez, Royal Court Theatre, then Cambridge Theatre, 1971
- Face, The Alchemist, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1972
- Brutus, Julius Caesar, Young Vic Theatre, 1972
- Chairman, A Sense of Detachment, Royal Court Theatre, 1972
- Baptista, The Taming of the Shrew, Young Vic Theatre, 1972
- Judge, The Trial of St. George, Soho Poly Theatre, London, 1972
- Philip, The Philanthropist, May Fair Theatre, London, 1973
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The Ride across Lake Constance, Hampstead Theatre, London, then May Fair Theatre, 1973
- (Broadway debut) Touchstone, As You Like It, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1974
- Colonel, Bird Child, Theatre Upstairs, London, 1974
- Cutler Walpole, The Doctor's Dilemma, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1975
- Stephen, Otherwise Engaged, Queen's Theatre, London, 1975
- Touchstone, As You Like It, Riverside Studios, London, 1976
- Owen, Clouds, Hampstead Theatre, 1976
- Brian, Blind Date, King's Head Theatre, London, 1977
- Abbe de Pradts, The Fire That Consumes, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1977
- Major Giles Flack, Privates on Parade, Royal Shakespeare Company,Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977
- Julius Sagamore, The Millionairess, Haymarket Theatre, London, 1978
- Title role, Uncle Vanya, Hampstead Theatre, 1979
- Morgenhall, "The Dock Brief," John Mortimer's Casebook, Young VicTheatre, 1982
- Orgon, Tartuffe; or, The Imposter, Barbican Theatre, London, thenPit Theatre, London, 1983
- Solveig's father, Peer Gynt, Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit Theatre, London, 1983
- Douglas, Across from the Garden of Allah, Comedy Theatre, London,1986
- Colonel Tadeusz, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, National Theatre Company, National Theatre, London, 1986
- Mr. Posket, The Magistrate, National Theatre Company, National Theatre, 1986
- Blair, Hapgood, Aldwych Theatre, 1988
- C. S. Lewis, Shadowlands, Queen's Theatre, 1989then Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1990-91
- Title role (King George III), The Madness of George III, NationalTheatre, Lyttelton, London, 1991-93
- C. S. Lewis, Shadowlands, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1992
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Major Tours
- Touchstone, As You Like It, North American cities, 1974
- Dr. Sloper, The Heiress, British cities, 1983
- Title role (King George III), The Madness of George III, U.S. cities, 1993
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Film Appearances
- Boer Sentry, Young Winston, Columbia, 1972
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S*P*Y*S, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974
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S, 1974
- Pastor De Ruiter, The Hiding Place, World Wide, 1975
- Dilke, Sweeney 2, EMI, 1978
- Voice of Campion, Watership Down (animated), Avco Embassy, 1978
- Citizen Official, History of the World, Part 1, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981
- Victorian Father, Memoirs of a Survivor, EMI, 1981
- Pyote Baranovich, Firefox, Warner Bros., 1982
- Kinnoch, Gandhi, Columbia, 1982
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale, 1982
- Voice of Dr. Robert Boycott, The Plague Dogs (animated), United International, 1984
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The House, New World Pictures, 1984
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Le Tartuffe, D.D. Productions/Gaumont/TF1 Films Productions/Les Films du Losange, 1984
- Voice of Fflewddur Fflam, The Black Cauldron (animated), Buena Vista, 1985
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Dreamchild, Universal, 1985
- Mr. Thorn, The Chain, J. Arthur Rank, 1985
- Publisher, Turtle Diary, Samuel Goldwyn Co., 1985
- Voice, Rarg (animated short), Expanded Entertainment, 1988
- Ted Walker, En Handfull tid (also known as A Handful of Time), Norsk Film, 1989
- Achmet, King of the Wind, Shapiro/Glickenhaus Entertainment, 1990
- Voice of Brigadier G, Freddie as F.R.O.7 (animated; also known asFreddie the Frog), Universal, 1992
- Dr. Raymond Cocteau, Demolition Man, Warner Bros., 1993
- Title role (King George III), The Madness of King George (also known as The Madness of King George III), Samuel Goldwyn Co., 1994
- Clarence, Richard III, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1995
- Malvolio, Twelfth Night (also known as Twelfth Night: Or What You Will), Fine Line Features, 1996
- President Martin Van Buren, Amistad, DreamWorks Distribution, 1997
- Lord Covington, Madeline, Columbia TriStar/Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1998
- Rodney Fraser, The Object of My Affection, Twentieth Century-Fox,1998
- Voice of Porter, Tarzan (animated), Buena Vista, 1999
- Arthur Winslow, The Winslow Boy, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
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Television Appearances
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Movies
- Stryver, A Tale of Two Cities, CBS, 1980
- Esmerelda Trial Magistrate, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, CBS, 1982
- King Abdullah, A Woman Called Golda, Operation Prime Time, 1982
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Pope John Paul II, CBS, 1984
- Colonel, Jenny's War, Operation Prime Time, 1985
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Fleabites, BBC, 1992
- Colonel Kruger, Inside, Showtime, 1996
- Dr. Ellis, Murder in Mind, HBO, 1996
- Kim Mennaker, The Big Brass Ring, 1996
- Dr. David Livingston, Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingston, ABC, 1997
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Series
- Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes, Minister, The Entertainment Channel, 1979-88
- Georgie Pillson, Mapp & Lucia, PBS, 1986
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The Trials of Oz, BBC, 1992
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Yes, Prime Minister, BBC, 1986-87
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The Fragile Heart, 1996
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Miniseries
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Holocaust, NBC, 1978
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Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Thames TV, 1978
- Archdeacon Grantly, "The Barchester Chronicles," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1984
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Episodic
- Harpagon, "The Miser," Great Performances, PBS, 1988
- Philip, "Relatively Speaking," Great Performances, PBS, 1989
- Narrator, Russia's War, 1997
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Specials
- Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, 1977
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Destiny, 1978
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The Knowledge, 1979
- Stephano, The Tempest, 1980
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The Critic, 1982
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Tartuffe, 1985
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The Shawl, 1989
- Rev. Jonathan Guerdon, "From Sleep and Shadow," Spirit of Man, 1989
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The 45th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 1991
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Television Work
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Movies
- Associate producer (with Kelley Feldsott Reynolds), Murder in Mind, HBO, 1996
Further Reference
OTHER SOURCES
Periodicals:
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Advocate, April 4, 1995, pp. 45-47.
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Entertainment Weekly, March 4, 1995, p. 22.
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Interview, December 4, 1990, p. 80.
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People Weekly, February 27, 1995, p. 90; March 27, 1995, pp. 101-102.
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Vanity Fair, January 27, 1995, pp. 102-105.*
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