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Sir Nigel Hawthorne (April 5, 1929 - December 26, 2001) was a renowned British actor. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, in England, although he spent some of his formative years in South Africa. He returned to the UK in the 1950s.
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 TV series Yes, Minister
(and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister), and as George III in the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and awarded the Olivier Award. He was knighted in 1999.
An intensely private individual, he was deeply saddened when involuntarily outed as a homosexual in the run-up to the Oscars. While struggling with prostate cancer (though his eventual death was of a heart attack), however, he wrote a candid autobiography
Straight Face, which was published posthumously.
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