Sir Nigel Hawthorne
He is one of my favorite actors.
Known as Sir Humphrey Abbley in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister in the 1980's. Hawthorne graced the world with the acting prowess.
His performance in The Madness of King George is one of the best (and most underrated) movie performances of all time. He was outed and robbed of the Oscar that year. At least he won the BAFTA.
His others film roles include The Tempest, Marie Curie, Watership Down, A tAle of Two Cities, History of the World Part I, Firefox, Gandhi, The Black Cauldron, Turtle Diary, Demolition Man, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Inside, Amistad, The Object of My Affection, Madeline, The Winslow Boy, and Tarzan.
Unfortunately he died in December 2001. Imagine if he would have lived another ten or twenty years.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 18, 2023 7:23 PM
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Attached is his Desert Island Disc. 1986
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 15, 2022 4:53 PM
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He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 15, 2022 4:57 PM
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Helen Mirren relates that he was inconsolable to be outed as a poofter on the eve of the Oscars.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 15, 2022 5:03 PM
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R3 it really was shitty of the Americans to do that to him. That was his private and personal life.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 15, 2022 5:31 PM
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He never struck me as very interesting. I bought his autobiography, gave up on it and gave it to a friend (who liked it very much). The gay part is the only thing that makes him interesting and even that he's pretty boring about.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 15, 2022 5:44 PM
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He was fabulous in Mapp and Lucia!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 15, 2022 5:47 PM
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R7 I thought he might be gay the first time I watched M&L shortly after it was released in the US. His characterization of Georgie seemed beyond good acting to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 15, 2022 6:18 PM
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Didn't Georgie marry Lucia?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 15, 2022 6:24 PM
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R8 Is that a good or bad thing?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 15, 2022 7:05 PM
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I liked him as Martin van Buren in Amistad.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 15, 2022 7:08 PM
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R9 Not as I recall from the original TV dramatization. They almost did, but they knew it wouldn’t work (hint, hint) so they continued on as friends.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 15, 2022 11:28 PM
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R10 Neither. He portrayed what might have been called feyness at the time of the story, but he did it without making Georgie a total stereotype. Of course an excellent actor of any orientation could do that, but something set off my gaydar about him well before he was outed.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 15, 2022 11:40 PM
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R13 got you. He really was an excellent actor.
I could not imagine The Madness of King George without him.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 16, 2022 1:02 AM
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The British tabloids outed him with the headling "Sir Bumphrey!"
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 16, 2022 8:43 AM
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God, they’re repulsive. Snide, homophobic abuse under the guise of “British humour”.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 2, 2022 5:39 AM
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Here is a classic scene from Yes Prime Minister on who reads which newspaper in Britain. Bernard's line is classic.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 2, 2022 5:50 AM
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Underrated and outed by the Americans.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 30, 2022 1:08 AM
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What would we do without the OP, who MUST tell us things we already know (all sensible gay people love Nigel) or never cared enough about to bother to learn about him.
Why, OP?
Need a purpose to your life or something?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 30, 2022 1:11 AM
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That Christmas movie (it may have been his final role) where he and Whoopi both play Santa is so fucken cute.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 30, 2022 1:23 AM
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One of my faves. Madness of King George so good.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 30, 2022 1:29 AM
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r22 is the life of parties.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 30, 2022 1:39 AM
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R22 Maybe I am trying to have intelligent conversations about art, history, literature, and science?
You do not have to comment if you are interested.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 30, 2022 1:41 AM
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