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Actor Yes Minister

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne is known to TV Flash readers as Sir Humphrey Appleby — a defining face of the catalog era.

Networks & studios

  • BBC — via catalog credits

On the dial

Shows in our catalog

BBC Two · 1980–1984

Yes Minister

Civil service as comic chess — yes, Minister, with a knife behind the smile.

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