Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
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Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 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.
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Call Me Claus (2001)
If She's Going To Save Christmas, She's Got Some Big Shoes To Fill.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Werner
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg | Taylor Negron | Victor Garber | Frankie Faison | Nigel Hawthorne
The Clandestine Marriage (1999)
As: Lord Ogleby
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Christopher Miles
Stars: Timothy Spall | Nigel Hawthorne | Joan Collins | Tom Hollander | Paul Nicholls
A Reasonable Man (1999)
As: Judge Wendon
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Stars: Vusi Kunene | Ken Gampu | Gavin Hood | Nigel Hawthorne | Janine Eser
Tarzan (1999)
As: Professor Archimedes Q. Porter
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 Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Kevin Lima | Chris Buck
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Glenn Close | Brian Blessed | Minnie Driver | Tony Goldwyn
Uncorked (1999)
As: Uncle Cullen
Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine collection to finance a new venture, his uncle hatches a plan to remind Ross of the talent he left behind.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: John Huddles
Stars: Rufus Sewell | Keone Young | Nigel Hawthorne | Minnie Driver | Amelia Heinle
The Big Brass Ring (1999)
As: Kim Mennaker
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 back to haunt him.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: George Hickenlooper
Stars: Miranda Richardson | Irène Jacob | William Hurt | Nigel Hawthorne | Ewan Stewart
The Winslow Boy (1999)
As: Arthur Winslow
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: David Mamet
Stars: Rebecca Pidgeon | Gemma Jones | Nigel Hawthorne | Colin Stinton | Sarah Flind
Atatürk: Founder of Modern Turkey (1999)
As: Sir Percy Loraine
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Runtime: 52 min.
Directed by: Tarquin Olivier
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Madeline (1998)
As: Lord Covington
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell Madeline's school.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Arturo Venegas | Frances McDormand | Ben Daniels | Hatty Jones
The Object of My Affection (1998)
As: Rodney Fraser
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 to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Jennifer Aniston | Allison Janney | Alan Alda | Hayden Panettiere | Paul Rudd
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)
As: David Livingstone
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Simon Langton
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Dylan Baker | Kabir Bedi | Edward Fox | Nigel Hawthorne
Amistad (1997)
As: Martin Van Buren
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 then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams ...
Runtime: 155 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Djimon Hounsou | Anthony Hopkins | Matthew McConaughey | Nigel Hawthorne
Murder in Mind (1997)
As: Dr. Ellis
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 police listening, a pattern of spousal abuse emerges. When each trance ends, however, the woman, Carolyn Walker, wonders if those repressed memories are true. Dr. Ellis guides her through her trial, testifies himself, and continues treatment after the verdict is ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Andrew Morahan
Stars: Mary-Louise Parker | Jimmy Smits | Nigel Hawthorne
Twelfth Night (1996)
As: Malvolio
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 he loves.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ben Kingsley | Richard E. Grant | Mel Smith | Nigel Hawthorne
Inside (1996)
As: Colonel
An emotional and thrilling tale of life and death behind the walls of a maximum security prison. From the acclaimed director of 'Bonnie and Clyde', and featuring a powerful international cast.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Stars: Eric Stoltz | Nigel Hawthorne | Louis Gossett, Jr. | Louis Van Niekerk | Ian Roberts
Richard III (1995)
As: The Duke of Clarence
Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Stars: Ian McKellen | Kristin Scott Thomas | Annette Bening | Jim Broadbent | Adrian Dunbar
The Madness of King George (1994)
As: George III
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Nigel Hawthorne | Amanda Donohoe
Demolition Man (1993)
As: Dr. Raymond Cocteau
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Marco Brambilla
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Sandra Bullock | Wesley Snipes | Benjamin Bratt | Nigel Hawthorne
Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992)
As: Brigadier G (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve the mysterious disappearances of some of Britain's greatest monuments. Several hundred years later, Freddie is now living in modern day Paris -- a six-foot-tall amphibian with the moniker Secret Agent F.R.O.7. Messina, too, is still ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jon Acevski
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Jonathan Pryce | Prunella Scales | Nigel Hawthorne | Brian Blessed
The Trials of Oz (1991)
As: Brian Leary
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sheree Folkson
Stars: Leslie Phillips | Hugh Grant | Nigel Hawthorne | Peter O'Brien | Kevin Allen
King of the Wind (1990)
As: Achmet
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 gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Peter Duffell
Stars: Richard Harris | Nigel Hawthorne | Frank Finlay | Glenda Jackson | Jenny Agutter
Relatively Speaking (1990)
As: Philip Carter
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 her. Does Philip love his wife too? Ginny tells Gregory she's going to see her parents, when she's actually going to see Philip to break things off. Gregory, thinking to surprise her, gets there first, and the chaos begins.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Michael A. Simpson
Stars: Michael Maloney | Nigel Hawthorne | Gwen Watford | Imogen Stubbs
En håndfull tid (1989)
As: Ted Walker
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 to their surviving son.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Martin Asphaug
Stars: Per Jansen | Espen Skjønberg | Camilla Strøm Henriksen | Nicolay Lange-Nielsen | Minken Fosheim
Jenny's War (1985)
As: Colonel
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 from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Runtime: 198 min.
Directed by: Steve Gethers
Stars: Christopher Cazenove | Robert Hardy | Nigel Hawthorne | Elke Sommer | Dyan Cannon
Turtle Diary (1985)
As: The Publisher
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, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: John Irvin
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Michael Gambon | Nigel Hawthorne | Glenda Jackson | Richard Johnson
The Black Cauldron (1985)
As: Fflewddur Fflam (voice)
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 oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Ted Berman | Richard Rich
Stars: John Hurt | John Byner | Nigel Hawthorne | Grant Bardsley | Susan Sheridan
Pope John Paul II (1985)
As: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
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 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Herbert Wise
Stars: Brian Cox | Albert Finney | John McEnery | Patrick Stewart | Nigel Hawthorne
The House (1984)
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 off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the ...
Runtime: 59 min.
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Stars: Alun Armstrong | Stephen Rea | Dudley Sutton | Nigel Hawthorne | Jonathan Cecil
The Chain (1984)
As: Mr Thorn
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jack Gold
Stars: Bernard Hill | Leo McKern | Warren Mitchell | David Troughton | Denis Lawson
Tartuffe, or The Imposter (1983)
As: Orgon
Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
Runtime: 112 min.
Stars: Michael Maloney | Antony Sher | David Bradley | Nigel Hawthorne | Alison Steadman
The Plague Dogs (1982)
As: Dr. Boycott (voice)
The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Martin Rosen
Stars: John Hurt | Nigel Hawthorne | James Bolam | Warren Mitchell | Christopher Benjamin
Gandhi (1982)
As: Kinnoch
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 independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Runtime: 191 min.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud
Firefox (1982)
As: Pyotr Baranovich
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam War pilot Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal Firefox.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Freddie Jones | Clint Eastwood | Ronald Lacey | Warren Clarke | David Huffman
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale (1982)
As: John Westwood
The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Tom Clegg
Stars: Andrew Keir | Richard Griffiths | Nigel Hawthorne | Dennis Waterman | Marjorie Bland
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
As: King Abdullah
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Runtime: 191 min.
Directed by: Alan Gibson
Stars: Ned Beatty | Leonard Nimoy | Judy Davis | Franklin Cover | Ingrid Bergman
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
As: Magistrate at Esmeralda's trial
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. But when a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Michael Tuchner
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Anthony Hopkins | Lesley-Anne Down | John Gielgud | David Suchet
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
As: Victorian Father
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 society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: David Gladwell
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Julie Christie | Leonie Mellinger | Christopher Guard | Debbie Hutchings
History of the World: Part I (1981)
As: Citizen Official - The French Revolution
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Stars: Cloris Leachman | Madeline Kahn | Harvey Korman | Dom DeLuise | Mel Brooks
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
As: Mr. CJ Stryver
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Runtime: 162 min.
Directed by: Jim Goddard
Stars: Chris Sarandon | Alice Krige | Peter Cushing | Barry Morse | Kenneth More
The Tempest (1980)
As: Stephano
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. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: John Gorrie
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Michael Hordern | Warren Clarke | Derek Godfrey | David Waller
The Misanthrope (1980)
As: Philinte
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 in the 1920s.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Michael Simpson
Stars: Ian Holm | Cherie Lunghi | Nigel Hawthorne | Michael Kitchen | Annette Crosbie
The Knowledge (1979)
As: Mr Burgess
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Bob Brooks
Stars: David Ryall | Nigel Hawthorne | Michael Elphick | Mick Ford | Kim Taylforth
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
As: Walter Monkton
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Runtime: 350 min.
Directed by: Waris Hussein
Stars: Edward Fox | Nigel Hawthorne | Cynthia Harris | Peggy Ashcroft | David Waller
Watership Down (1978)
As: Capt. Campion (voice)
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 search of a safe new haven.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Martin Rosen
Stars: John Hurt | Richard Briers | John Bennett | Michael Graham Cox | Simon Cadell
Sweeney 2 (1978)
As: Detective Chief Inspector Dilke
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 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Tom Clegg
Stars: Nigel Hawthorne | Denholm Elliott | John Thaw | Ken Hutchison | Dennis Waterman