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Sir Nigel Hawthorne, KBE ( 5 April , 1929 – 26 December , 2001 ) was a renowned English Actor . He was born in Coventry , Warwickshire , England , although he grew up in South Africa , where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. He returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to attend university. In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson stout and a bit part in '' Dad's Army '', his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV Series , '' Yes, Minister '' (and its sequel ''Yes, Prime Minister''), and as King George III in Alan Bennett 's stage play ''The Madness of George III'' ( Olivier Award ) and its Film Adaptation , for which he was nominated for an Oscar . He was appointed a CBE in 1987 , and was Knight ed in 1999 . An intensely private individual, he was deeply saddened when he was involuntarily " Outed " as a Homosexual in the run-up to the Oscars . He had several surgeries for Pancreatic Cancer , although his immediate cause of death was from a Heart Attack , aged 72. He wrote a candid autobiography, Straight Face, which was published posthumously. FILM AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES
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