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Wednesday, 26 December, 2001, 15:44 GMT

The illustrious acting career of Sir Nigel Hawthorne proved he was equally adept at comedy and tragedy.

Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley, Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker and Sir Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby

This three-minute sketch was filmed at Waldegrave Hall in London in 1984

Hawthorne with co-star Helen Mirren

Hawthorne in 1995

Hawthorne and Thompson

Hawthorne with his nanny Lena outside her Cape Town home

Rehearsing Lear at the Barbican in London

Hawthorne and Winslet at an Imperial Cancer Research Funds Christmas Concert at St Paul's Cathedral

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