This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Nigel Hawthorne is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
| Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne CBE | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Nigel Hawthorne 5 April 1929 Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 December 2001 (aged 72) Hertfordshire, England |
||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actor | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1963-2001 | ||||||||||||||
| Domestic partner(s) | Trevor Bentham | ||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne CBE (5 April, 1929 – 26 December, 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Humphrey Appleby in the sitcom Yes Minister.
Contents |
Biography
Early life
Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England. He grew up in South Africa, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. He returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue a career in acting.
Career
In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby in the television series Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III (Olivier Award) and the film adaptation, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1987, and was knighted in 1999.
An intensely private individual, he was deeply saddened when he was involuntarily "outed" as gay in the run-up to the Oscars, but nevertheless attended the ceremonies with his long-time partner Trevor Bentham, and spoke openly about being gay in interviews and his autobiography, Straight Face, which was published posthumously.1
Death
He had several operations for pancreatic cancer, although his immediate cause of death was from a heart attack, aged 72. He was survived by his partner, Trevor Bentham. He was buried at Parish Church of Thundridge in Ware, Hertford.
Filmography
Television
|
Film
|
References
External links
- Nigel Hawthorne at the Internet Movie Database
- Nigel Hawthorne at Find A Grave
- Straight Face by Nigel Hawthorne, a book review by Michael Hubbard
| Awards and achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Hugh Grant for Four Weddings and a Funeral |
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Madness of King George 1995 |
Succeeded by Geoffrey Rush for Shine |
|
||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 11 November 2008, at 15:47.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Nigel Hawthorne".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.