Tim Pigott-Smith

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Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English film and television actor and writer.

He was best known for his leading role in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, for which he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1985.

(The Claws of Axos (1976) & The Masque of Mandragora (1976)) Other notable television appearances included performances in The Chief, Midsomer Murders, The Vice, Mr Whicher's Suspicions, King Charles III, and two Doctor Who films.

Pimpt-Smith appeared in many films including: Clash of the Titans (1981), Gangs of New York (2004), Alexander (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), Red 2 (2013), and Jupiter Ascending (2015).

Early life

Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the son of Margaret Muriel (née Goodman) and Harry Thomas Pigott-Smith, who was a journalist. He was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School, Leicester, King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Bristol University. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School as an actor.

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Career

Piston-Smith's appearance as Arthur Llewellyn Davies in the BBC's The Lost Boys mini-series resulted in him getting his first break with the leading role of Ronald Merrick in the 1984 television series The Jewel in the Crown. Other appearances include the title role in the crime drama The Chief (1990–1993), a regular presence in the ITV drama The Vice as Ken Stott's nemesis, Vickers, and Bloody Sunday. He appeared in two versions of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South; in 1975, he appeared as Frederick Hale; in the 2004 version, he played Frederick's father Richard. He appeared in a serial of the series Ghosts in 1995.

He appeared in Doctor Who twice, including in the stories The Claws of Axos (1971) and The Masque of Mandragora (1976).

He appeared on document television shows as a regular narrator. He narrated The Team: A Season with McLaren, a six-episode BBC series about McLaren Racing's 1993 season. He also narrated the Battlefield series, which explores the Second World War's most important battles from an operations point of view. Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, he narrated a series on the British Royal Family. The series followed Queen Elizabeth II for more than a year, including the 2007 state visit to the United States.

He appeared in the ITV drama series The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, written by Helen Edmundson, from 2011 to 2014.

In the episode "One For Sorrow," he appeared in Lewis in 2015 as a taxidermist. He appeared in the third season of Downton Abbey (third season) as an obstetrician/gynecologist, who was also present at Lady Sybil Crawley Branson's death after giving birth to her daughter. (Jessica Brown Findlay)

Alexander, The Four Feathers, Clash of the Titans, Gangs of New York, Johnny English, The Remains of the Day, and V for Vendetta were among his film works. In director Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday (2002) and as the Foreign Secretary in James Bond's Quantum of Solace (2008), he appeared as Major General Robert Ford. Alan Keen appeared in the television film On Expenses in February 2010. In addition, he appeared in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, as Sniggs. In Victoria & Abdul (2017), his last film role was that of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's Private Secretary.

Pimbeline descended on Shakespeare and Greece, including Posthumus in John Barton's 1974 revival of Cymbeline for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was known as "Tim Smith" in early stage roles.

He appeared in King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2011.

Enron, Ken Lay, directed the Chichester Festival Theatre in Chichester, then London, in 2009, and Tobias in A Delicate Balance at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2011. In 2014, he returned to the Almeida as a post-accession Charles, Prince of Wales in King Charles III, for which he received a nomination for the Olivier Award for Best Actor and his first Tony Award nomination for Broadway's production in 2015. In the 2017 film version of the play, he appeared as Charles.

He was also a radio actor, appearing in several BBC Radio 4 productions.

Pivott-Smith kept a diary detailing his experiences of India during the production of The Jewel in the Crown. Out of India was released in conjunction with an anthology of poetry and prose.

In the series The Baker Street Mysteries, he wrote two children's books based on Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars' exploits – The Dragon Tattoo (2008) and Shadow of Evil (2009). In a BBC Radio version of The Valley of Fear, Holmes appeared in Holmes.

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