Sir Nigel Hawthorne, best known as the suave Civil Service mandarin Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. He was thought to have been winning his two ...

Actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne narrates a new run of this sweet series of Animal Stories for toddlers, broadcast daily all week. Today's double bill features Philip the Fly, whose attempts to educate ...

played by Nigel Hawthorne. So familiar is this virtuoso comedy double act that it comes as a shock to discover both actors are, in fact, dead. Eddington died from skin cancer in 1995; before he ...

Bennett's 1991 play shows King George battling a mystery mental illness. Nigel Hawthorne won an Olivier Award for playing the troubled monarch in the original production and went on to reprise his ...

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Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations. With Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne ...