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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.

Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected
as Self (Archive Material)

Once Upon a Halloween
as Fflewddur Fflam (voice) (archive sound)
Animal Stories
as Narrator (Orig. U.K.)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Sir Humphrey Appleby (archive footage) (uncredited)

Call Me Claus
as Nick

Victoria & Albert
as Lord William Lamb

Victoria & Albert
as Viscount Melbourne

Higher Love
as Uncle Cullen

The Clandestine Marriage
as Lord Ogleby

A Reasonable Man
as Judge Wendon

Tarzan
as Professor Archimedes Q. Porter (voice)

The Big Brass Ring
as Kim Mennaker

The Winslow Boy
as Arthur Winslow

Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey
as Sir Percy Lorraine, British Ambassador

Madeline
as Lord Covington

Animal Stories
as Narrator (voice)

The Object of My Affection
as Rodney Fraser

Parkinson
as Self

Amistad
as Martin Van Buren

Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
as David Livingstone

Murder in Mind
as Dr. Ellis

The Fragile Heart
as Dr. Edgar Pascoe

Twelfth Night
as Malvolio

Inside
as Colonel

Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow
as Narrator

The Happy Prince
as Narrator (voice)

Richard III
as The Duke of Clarence

The Madness of King George
as George III

Late-Flowering Lust
as Cousin John
Portrait or Bust
as Himself (uncredited)

Demolition Man
as Dr. Raymond Cocteau

Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as Brigadier G (voice)
Flea Bites
as Kryst

The Trials of Oz
as Brian Leary

Performance
as Brian Leary

King of the Wind
as Achmet

Relatively Speaking
as Philip Carter

A Handful of Time
as Ted Walker

The Spirit of Man
as Rev. Jonathan Guerdon

The Shawl
as John

RARG
as Storyteller

The Play on One
as John

ScreenPlay
as Rev. Jonathan Guerdon

Yes, Prime Minister
as Sir Humphrey Appleby

Turtle Diary
as Publisher

Jenny's War
as Colonel

Theatre Night
as Harpagon

The Black Cauldron
as Fflewddur Fflam (voice)

Jenny's War
as Colonel

Mapp & Lucia
as Georgie Pillson

The Chain
as Mr Thorn

The House
as General Fagg

Pope John Paul II
as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski

Natural World
as Narrator

Tartuffe, or The Imposter
as Orgon

The Crimson Permanent Assurance
as Passerby (uncredited)

Dead on Time
as Doctor

The Funny Side of Christmas
as Sir Humphrey Appleby

Gandhi
as Kinnoch

The Barchester Chronicles
as Dr Grantly