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	{{Infobox person		{{Infobox person
	~~\| name = Jonathan Cecil~~
	\| image = Jonathan Cecil.jpg		\| image = Jonathan Cecil.jpg
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	\| birth_name = Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil		\| birth_name = Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[w:London]], England		\| birth_place = [[London]], England
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2011\|09\|22\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2011\|09\|22\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = [[w:Charing Cross Hospital\|Charing Cross Hospital, London]], England		\| death_place = [[Charing Cross Hospital\|Charing Cross Hospital, London]], England
	\| othername =		\| othername =
	\| occupation = Actor		\| occupation = Actor
	\| yearsactive = 1963–2011		\| yearsactive = 1963–2011
	\| spouse =		\| spouse =
	*{{Marriage\|[[w:Vivien Heilbron\|Vivien Heilbron]]\|1963\|1975\|end=div}}		*{{Marriage\|[[Vivien Heilbron\|Vivien Heilbron]]\|1963\|1975\|end=div}}
	*{{Marriage\|Anna Sharkey\|1976\|2011}}		*{{Marriage\|Anna Sharkey\|1976\|2011}}
	\| website =		\| website =
	}}		}}

	'''Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil''' (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[w:theatre\|theatre]], [[w:film\|film]], and [[w:television\|television]] [[w:actor\|actor]].		'''Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil''' (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[theatre\|theatre]], [[film\|film]], and [[television\|television]] [[actor\|actor]].

	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Cecil was born in [[w:London\|London]], England, the son of [[w:Lord David Cecil\|Lord David Cecil]] and the grandson of the [[w:James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury\|4th Marquess of Salisbury\|]]. His other grandfather was the literary critic [[w:Desmond MacCarthy\|Sir Desmond MacCarthy]]. He was the great-grandson of Conservative [[w:Prime Minister\|Prime Minister]] [[w:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury\|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]].		Cecil was born in [[London\|London]], England, the son of [[Lord David Cecil\|Lord David Cecil]] and the grandson of the [[James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury\|4th Marquess of Salisbury\|]]. His other grandfather was the literary critic [[Desmond MacCarthy\|Sir Desmond MacCarthy]]. He was the great-grandson of Conservative [[Prime Minister\|Prime Minister]] [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury\|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]].

	Brought up in [[w:Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[w:Eton College\|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[w:New College, Oxford]], where he read [[w:modern languages]], specialising in [[w:French language\|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news \|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1080501431/floreat-etona \|title=Floreat Eton \|first=Robert \|last=Gore-Langton \|work=[[w:The Spectator\|The Spectator]] \|date=2006-07-08 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref><ref name=theatrearchive>[http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref>		Brought up in [[Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[modern languages]], specialising in [[French language\|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news \|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1080501431/floreat-etona \|title=Floreat Eton \|first=Robert \|last=Gore-Langton \|work=[[The Spectator\|The Spectator]] \|date=2006-07-08 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref><ref name=theatrearchive>[http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref>

	At Oxford, his friends included [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Alan Bennett]].<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html \|title=Jonathan Cecil \|author=Staff writers \|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|date=2011-11-24 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> In a production of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy\|Bartholomew Fair]]'', he played a [[lunatic]] called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote\|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for [[comedy\|comedy parts]], playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the [[cabaret]] nights we had.<ref name=theatrearchive/>}}		At Oxford, his friends included [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Alan Bennett]].<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html \|title=Jonathan Cecil \|author=Staff writers \|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|date=2011-11-24 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> In a production of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy\|Bartholomew Fair]]'', he played a [[lunatic]] called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote\|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for [[comedy\|comedy parts]], playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the [[cabaret]] nights we had.<ref name=theatrearchive/>}}
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	==External links==		==External links==
	*{{IMDb name \| id = 0147699}}		*{{IMDb name \| id = 0147699}}
	*Jonathan Cecil, ''[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3319135.ece In the dressing room with Noel Coward]'' from ''[[w:Times Literary Supplement\|Times Literary Supplement]]'' of 6 February 2008, text online		*Jonathan Cecil, ''[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3319135.ece In the dressing room with Noel Coward]'' from ''[[Times Literary Supplement\|Times Literary Supplement]]'' of 6 February 2008, text online
	*Jonathan Cecil, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825152150/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21077/very-much-his-own-man.thtml Very much his own man], from ''[[~~w:The Spectator\|~~The Spectator]]'' of 18 September 2004, text online		*Jonathan Cecil, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825152150/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21077/very-much-his-own-man.thtml Very much his own man], from ''[[The Spectator]]'' of 18 September 2004, text online

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	*Jonathan Cecil, ''[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3319135.ece In the dressing room with Noel Coward]'' from ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'' of 6 February 2008, text online		*Jonathan Cecil, ''[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3319135.ece In the dressing room with Noel Coward]'' from ''[[w:Times Literary Supplement\|Times Literary Supplement]]'' of 6 February 2008, text online
	*Jonathan Cecil, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825152150/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21077/very-much-his-own-man.thtml Very much his own man], from ''[[The Spectator]]'' of 18 September 2004, text online		*Jonathan Cecil, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825152150/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21077/very-much-his-own-man.thtml Very much his own man], from ''[[w:The Spectator\|The Spectator]]'' of 18 September 2004, text online

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	\| birth_name = Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil		\| birth_name = Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1939\|02\|22\|df=~~yes~~}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:London]], England
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2011\|09\|22\|1939\|02\|22\|df=~~yes~~}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|2011\|09\|22\|1939\|02\|22\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = [[Charing Cross Hospital\|Charing Cross Hospital, London]], England		\| death_place = [[w:Charing Cross Hospital\|Charing Cross Hospital, London]], England
	\| othername =		\| othername =
	\| occupation = Actor		\| occupation = Actor
	\| yearsactive = 1963–2011		\| yearsactive = 1963–2011
	\| spouse = [[Vivien Heilbron]]~~<br/>({{abbr~~\|m.\|~~married}} 1963; {{abbr~~\|div~~.\|divorced~~}} ~~1975)<br/>~~{{~~marriage~~\|Anna Sharkey\|1976\|2011}}		\| spouse =
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			*{{Marriage\|Anna Sharkey\|1976\|2011}}
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	'''Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil''' (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[theatre]], [[film]], and [[television]] [[actor]].		'''Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil''' (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[w:theatre\|theatre]], [[w:film\|film]], and [[w:television\|television]] [[w:actor\|actor]].

	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Cecil was born in [[London]], England, the son of [[Lord David Cecil]] and the grandson of the [[James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury\|4th Marquess of Salisbury]]. His other grandfather was the literary critic [[Desmond MacCarthy\|Sir Desmond MacCarthy]]. He was the great-grandson of Conservative [[Prime Minister]] [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury\|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]].		Cecil was born in [[w:London\|London]], England, the son of [[w:Lord David Cecil\|Lord David Cecil]] and the grandson of the [[w:James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury\|4th Marquess of Salisbury\|]]. His other grandfather was the literary critic [[w:Desmond MacCarthy\|Sir Desmond MacCarthy]]. He was the great-grandson of Conservative [[w:Prime Minister\|Prime Minister]] [[w:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury\|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]].

	Brought up in [[Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[Eton College\|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[modern languages]], specialising in [[French language\|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news \|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1080501431/floreat-etona \|title=Floreat Eton \|first=Robert \|last=Gore-Langton \|work=[[The Spectator]] \|date=2006-07-08 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref><ref name=theatrearchive>[http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref>		Brought up in [[w:Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[w:Eton College\|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[w:New College, Oxford]], where he read [[w:modern languages]], specialising in [[w:French language\|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news \|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1080501431/floreat-etona \|title=Floreat Eton \|first=Robert \|last=Gore-Langton \|work=[[w:The Spectator\|The Spectator]] \|date=2006-07-08 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref><ref name=theatrearchive>[http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref>

	At Oxford, his friends included [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Alan Bennett]].<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html \|title=Jonathan Cecil \|author=Staff writers \|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|date=2011-11-24 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> In a production of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy\|Bartholomew Fair]]'', he played a [[lunatic]] called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote\|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for [[comedy\|comedy parts]], playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the [[cabaret]] nights we had.<ref name=theatrearchive/>}}		At Oxford, his friends included [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Alan Bennett]].<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html \|title=Jonathan Cecil \|author=Staff writers \|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|date=2011-11-24 \|accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> In a production of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy\|Bartholomew Fair]]'', he played a [[lunatic]] called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote\|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for [[comedy\|comedy parts]], playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the [[cabaret]] nights we had.<ref name=theatrearchive/>}}

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{{short description|English actor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jonathan Cecil
| image = Jonathan Cecil.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| birth_name = Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|02|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|09|22|1939|02|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Charing Cross Hospital|Charing Cross Hospital, London]], England
| othername =
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1963–2011
| spouse = [[Vivien Heilbron]]<br/>({{abbr|m.|married}} 1963; {{abbr|div.|divorced}} 1975)<br/>{{marriage|Anna Sharkey|1976|2011}}
| website =
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'''Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil''' (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as '''Jonathan Cecil''', was an English [[theatre]], [[film]], and [[television]] [[actor]].

==Early life==
Cecil was born in [[London]], England, the son of [[Lord David Cecil]] and the grandson of the [[James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury|4th Marquess of Salisbury]]. His other grandfather was the literary critic [[Desmond MacCarthy|Sir Desmond MacCarthy]]. He was the great-grandson of Conservative [[Prime Minister]] [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]].

Brought up in [[Oxford]], where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[modern languages]], specialising in [[French language|French]] and continued with amateur dramatics.<ref name=gore>{{cite news |url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1080501431/floreat-etona |title=Floreat Eton |first=Robert |last=Gore-Langton |work=[[The Spectator]] |date=2006-07-08 |accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref><ref name=theatrearchive>[http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/cecil.html Interview with Jonathan Cecil] at bl.uk</ref>

At Oxford, his friends included [[Dudley Moore]] and [[Alan Bennett]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8913990/Jonathan-Cecil.html |title=Jonathan Cecil |author=Staff writers |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2011-11-24 |accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> In a production of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy|Bartholomew Fair]]'', he played a [[lunatic]] called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs.<ref name=theatrearchive/> Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said {{quote|I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for [[comedy|comedy parts]], playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the [[cabaret]] nights we had.<ref name=theatrearchive/>}}

After Oxford, he spent two years training for an acting career at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]], where he was taught (amongst others) by Michael MacOwan and [[Vivian Matalon]] and where his contemporaries included [[Ian McKellen]] and [[Derek Jacobi]].<ref name=theatrearchive/>

==Career==
Cecil's first television appearance was in playing a leading role opposite [[Vanessa Redgrave]] in "Maggie", an episode of the [[BBC television]] series ''First Night'' transmitted in February 1964, which he later called "a baptism by fire because I was being seen by half the nation". After that he spent eighteen months in [[repertory]] at [[Salisbury]], of which he later commented, "You learnt how to make an entrance and make an exit." His parts at Salisbury included the [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]] in ''[[Saint Joan (play)|Saint Joan]]'', [[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli]] in ''Portrait of a Queen'', [[The Tempest#Characters|Trinculo]] in ''[[The Tempest]]'', and "all the [[Shakespeare's plays|Shakespeare]]".<ref name=theatrearchive/>

His first [[West End theatre|West End]] part came in May 1965 in [[Julian Mitchell]]'s dramatisation of ''[[A Heritage and Its History]]'' at the [[Phoenix Theatre (London)|Phoenix]], in which he got good notices, and his next was in a [[Binkie Beaumont|Beaumont]] production of [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''Half-Way up the Tree'', directed by [[John Gielgud|Sir John Gielgud]].<ref name=theatrearchive/>

In film and television, Cecil almost always played [[upper class]] English characters. His screen work included the roles of Cummings in ''[[The Diary of a Nobody]]'' (1964), Captain Cadbury in the ''[[Dad's Army]]'' episode "[[Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army)|Things That Go Bump in the Night]]" (1973), [[Bertie Wooster]] in ''Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse'' (1981), Ricotin in [[Federico Fellini]]'s ''[[And the Ship Sails On]]'' (1983), and [[Arthur Hastings|Captain Hastings]] (to Peter Ustinov's [[Hercule Poirot]]) in ''[[Thirteen at Dinner (film)|Thirteen at Dinner]]'' (1985), ''[[Dead Man's Folly (film)|Dead Man's Folly]]'' and ''[[Murder in Three Acts]]'' (both 1986).<ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name | id = 0147699 | name = Jonathan Cecil}}</ref> He has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era".<ref name=gore/> In 2009 he appeared in an episode of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''.<ref name=imdb/>

He also worked in [[radio]], where his credits included ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and ''[[The Brightonomicon]]''. He also appeared in ''[[The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately]]'', playing characters with very bad foreign accents. Additionally, he stood in for [[Derek Nimmo]] in the role of the [[Bishop]]'s [[Chaplain]], the Reverend Mervyn Noote, in the second series of the radio episodes of the ecclesiastical sitcom ''[[All Gas and Gaiters]],'' which ran for twenty episodes. In the series of adaptations from P. G. Wodehouse ''[[What Ho! Jeeves]]'' (1973–81) he played the recurring character [[Bingo Little]].

He narrated audio books of many of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s books, performing voice characterisations for each character, and becoming possibly the most known narrator to ever perform the series.

Cecil wrote occasionally for ''[[The Spectator]]'' and ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]''. In one piece he noted {{quote|Handsome young male actors of the older school have tended, in my experience, to be somewhat vapid and vain. I write this in no spirit of envy — comic and [[character actor]]s, like proverbial blondes, usually have more fun.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21170/a-modest-triumph.thtml |title=A modest triumph |first=Jonathan |last=Cecil |work=[[The Spectator]] |date=2004-11-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825135922/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21170/a-modest-triumph.thtml |archivedate=2010-08-25 |accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref>}}

He also admitted that "most of my experience has been in comedy, that’s the way life has taken me ... if I have any regrets, it’s that I didn’t do parts with more depth".<ref name=theatrearchive/>

==Personal life==
Cecil was married twice. He met actress [[Vivien Heilbron]] when they were both studying at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]], and the couple married in 1963.<ref name=Billington>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/sep/25/jonathan-cecil |title=Jonathan Cecil obituary |first=Michael |last=Billington |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2011-09-25 |accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref> They were divorced after he met the actress Anna Sharkey while appearing at London's [[Mermaid Theatre]] in 1972; he and Sharkey married in 1976.<ref name=Billington/>

Cecil died from pneumonia on 22 September 2011 at [[Charing Cross Hospital]] in London, aged 72. He had suffered from [[emphysema]].<ref name=Billington/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jonathan-cecil-g985mvb3p2s |title=Jonathan Cecil |author=Staff writers |work=[[The Times]] |date=2011-09-24 |accessdate=2019-03-02}}</ref>

==Filmography==
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*''[[Nothing But the Best (film)|Nothing But the Best]]'' (1964) – Guards Officer (uncredited)
*''[[The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (TV series)|The Ordeal of Richard Feverel]]'' (1964) – Giles Jinkson
*''[[The Yellow Rolls-Royce]]'' (1964) – Young Man (uncredited)
*''[[The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery]]'' (1966) – Man (uncredited)
*''[[Otley (film)|Otley]]'' (1968) – Young Man at Party
*''[[The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer]]'' (1970) – Spot
*''[[Lust for a Vampire]]'' (1971) – Biggs
*''[[To Catch a Spy]]'' (1971) – British Attaché
*''[[Up the Front]]'' (1972) – Captain Nigel Phipps Fortescue
*''[[Are You Being Served]]'' (1975) – Customer
*''[[Barry Lyndon]]'' (1975) – Lt. Jonathan Fakenham
*''[[Under the Doctor]]'' (1976) – Rodney Harrington-Harrington / Lord Woodbridge
*''[[Joseph Andrews (film)|Joseph Andrews]]'' (1977) – Fop One
*''[[Rising Damp (film)|Rising Damp]]'' (1980) – Boutique Assistant
*''[[History of the World, Part I]]'' (1981) – Poppinjay (The French Revolution)
*''Farmers Arms'' (1983) – Mr. Brown
*''[[And the Ship Sails On]]'' (1983) – Ricotin
*''[[The Wind in the Willows (1983 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' (1983) – (voice)
*''[[Thirteen at Dinner (film)|Thirteen at Dinner]]'' (1985) – [[Arthur Hastings|Captain Hastings]]
*''[[Dead Man's Folly (film)|Dead Man's Folly]]'' (1986) – Captain Hastings
*''[[Murder in Three Acts]]'' (1986) – Captain Hastings
*''[[The Second Victory (film)|The Second Victory]]'' (1987) – Capt. Lowell
*''[[Little Dorrit (1987 film)|Little Dorrit]]'' (1987) – Magnate on the Bench
*''Hot Paint'' (1988) – Earl of Lanscombe
*''[[The Fool (1990 film)|The Fool]]'' (1990) – Sir Martin Locket
*''A Fine Romance'' (1992)
*''[[As You Like It]]'' (1992) – Lord
*''Day Release'' (1997)
*''[[RPM (film)|RPM]]'' (1998) – Lord Baxter
*''[[Fakers]]'' (2004) – Dr Fielding
*''[[Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj]]'' (2006) – Provost Cunningham
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==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name | id = 0147699}}
*Jonathan Cecil, ''[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3319135.ece In the dressing room with Noel Coward]'' from ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'' of 6 February 2008, text online
*Jonathan Cecil, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825152150/http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/21077/very-much-his-own-man.thtml Very much his own man], from ''[[The Spectator]]'' of 18 September 2004, text online

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