Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE, (born April 5, 1929 and died December 26, 2001) was a renowned English actor.
In a long and varied career, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV 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”, for which he received the Olivier Award, and the film adaptation, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
He had several surgeries for pancreatic cancer, although his immediate cause of death was from a heart attack, aged 72.
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