Nigel Hawthorne
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1198 |
| Birthday | 1929-04-05 |
| Place of Birth | Hertfordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1981
History of the World: Part I
6.754/893
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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History of the World: Part I
1982
Firefox
6.047/604
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are...
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Firefox
1985
The Black Cauldron
6.428/1413
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracu...
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The Black Cauldron
1982
The Plague Dogs
7.85/283
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parti...
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The Plague Dogs
1994
The Madness of King George
6.79/255
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu...
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The Madness of King George
1995
Richard III
6.744/193
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil...
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Richard III
2001
Higher Love
6.154/13
Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine co...
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Higher Love
1997
Amistad
7/1390
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...
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Amistad
1993
Demolition Man
6.753/4018
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a res...
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Demolition Man
1998
Madeline
6.2/239
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, maki...
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Madeline
1999
The Winslow Boy
6.737/78
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old...
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The Winslow Boy
1999
Tarzan
7.395/7229
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Po...
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Tarzan
2005
Once Upon a Halloween
6.2/12
On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you sever...
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Once Upon a Halloween
1996
Twelfth Night
6.9/93
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman...
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Twelfth Night
1999
The Big Brass Ring
4.2/13
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past...
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The Big Brass Ring
1978
The Sailor's Return
6/5
Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Ver...
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The Sailor's Return
2001
Call Me Claus
5.7/182
When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets...
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Call Me Claus
1998
The Object of My Affection
5.825/323
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much...
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The Object of My Affection
1975
The Hiding Place
6.833/33
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are d...
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The Hiding Place
1989
The Shawl
0/0
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her mone...
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The Shawl
1999
Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey
1/3
The rise of modern Turkey under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Atatürk. He established peace on the borders of Turkey for the first t...
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Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey
1997
Murder in Mind
5.3/11
The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the pol...
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Murder in Mind
1978
Sweeney 2
6.125/12
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 ma...
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Sweeney 2
1985
Turtle Diary
6.214/14
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...
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Turtle Diary
1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
5.2/32
Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorceress aunt, who kills his father in a bid to seize...
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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1981
Memoirs of a Survivor
4/14
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic s...
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Memoirs of a Survivor
1999
The Clandestine Marriage
6/1
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocr...
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The Clandestine Marriage
1989
Relatively Speaking
0/0
It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves h...
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Relatively Speaking
1999
A Reasonable Man
4.5/2
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
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A Reasonable Man
1990
King of the Wind
6.4/5
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
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King of the Wind
2005
Animal Stories
10/1
A classic series of 52 x 5-minute poems, affectionately narrated by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne in the UK and re-voiced for Disney in the USA by Alan...
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Animal Stories
1984
The Chain
6.8/6
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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The Chain
1982
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
7/1
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
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The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
1982
The Critic
0/0
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical spectacu...
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The Critic
1991
The Trials of Oz
6/5
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
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The Trials of Oz
2001
Victoria & Albert
7.6/12
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-...
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Victoria & Albert
1985
Jenny's War
6/1
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help...
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Jenny's War
1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
10/1
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1984
Pope John Paul II
6.9/4
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 197...
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Pope John Paul II
1996
Inside
4.3/9
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the que...
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Inside
1982
A Woman Called Golda
7.7/10
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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A Woman Called Golda
1978
Destiny
0/0
A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corpor...
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Destiny
1974
Occupations
0/0
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assista...
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Occupations
1989
A Handful of Time
4.571/7
Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth t...
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A Handful of Time
1979
The Knowledge
6.45/10
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Knowledge
1997
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
6/3
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
1982
Gandhi
7.561/2468
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi
1989
The Spirit of Man
0/0
In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
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The Spirit of Man
1980
A Rod of Iron
0/0
Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.
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A Rod of Iron
1994
Late-Flowering Lust
0/0
This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman. Altogether, this mov...
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Late-Flowering Lust
1992
Flea Bites
0/0
The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus
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Flea Bites
1976
Spiderweb
0/0
A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed a...
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Spiderweb
1974
S*P*Y*S
5.2/17
Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
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S*P*Y*S
1980
A Tale of Two Cities
5.7/17
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1978
Watership Down
7.204/685
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
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Watership Down
1980
The Misanthrope
0/0
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris...
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The Misanthrope
1983
Tartuffe, or The Imposter
0/0
Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
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Tartuffe, or The Imposter
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5.672/32
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimod...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1994
Portrait or Bust
0/0
Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.
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Portrait or Bust
1971
Alma Mater
0/0
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbe...
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Alma Mater
1980
The Tempest
7/2
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Ra...
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The Tempest
1984
The House
5/2
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an of...
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The House
2013
Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected
7/1
This special one-off documentary celebrates the past and present of hit sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Exploring the shows in some dep...
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Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected
1983
Dead on Time
6.5/9
Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to...
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Dead on Time
1973
The Emergency Channel
0/0
Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do...
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The Emergency Channel
1980
Jessie
0/0
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his or...
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Jessie
1975
Child of Hope
0/0
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to b...
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Child of Hope
1975
The Floater
0/0
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
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The Floater
1976
Buffet
0/0
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a busi...
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Buffet
1981
A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
0/0
A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation...
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A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado
1981
Protest
0/0
A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.
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Protest
1958
Carve Her Name with Pride
5.889/27
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses t...
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Carve Her Name with Pride
1976
Play Things
0/0
A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.
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Play Things
1980
The Enigma
0/0
When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jenning...
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The Enigma
1983
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
7.2/119
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
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The Crimson Permanent Assurance
1972
Young Winston
6.196/51
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
1996
The Happy Prince
0/0
A statue of 'The Happy Prince' (happy because he had devoted his life to pleasure behind his palace walls) looks out with horror at the destitution of...
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The Happy Prince
1982
The Funny Side of Christmas
0/0
Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Fools and Horses"; "Three of a Kind"; "Last of the Su...
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The Funny Side of Christmas
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6/1
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
1988
RARG
7.7/3
All is peaceful in the lovely land of RARG, that is, until an old professor & a tiny baby make an alarming discovery about the nature of dreams...
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