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Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB KBE MVO is a fictional character from the British television series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, and both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of Yes, Prime Minister. [1]
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was a British actor. He is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.
Woolley is the Principal Private Secretary to the Minister for Administrative Affairs (a fictional office), and later Prime Minister, Jim Hacker. However, his loyalties are split between his Minister and his Civil Service boss, Sir Humphrey Appleby. Whilst he is theoretically accountable to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his ...
Most episodes end with Sir Humphrey Appleby saying to Jim Hacker "Yes Minister" or "Yes Prime Minister" as appropriate. The pilot was produced in 1979 but not transmitted immediately for fear that it could influence the results of the May 1979 UK General Election. [6] It eventually aired on 25 February 1980. [1]
Sir Humphrey has a special end-of-year message for the Minister, delivered in, even by his standards, an especially circumlocutory style. His message was later transcribed and printed in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book.
In 2010 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister [15] at the Chichester Festival Theatre [16] and later at the Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010. [17] In 2012 he played the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in Chichester and then in the West End to critical ...
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Hacker worked with the ministry's Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, who as a senior civil servant tries to control the ministry and the minister himself, and his own Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley. Hacker had been helped in his re-election by political adviser Frank Weisel, saying of him, "I depend on him more than anyone."