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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 Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) serves throughout the series as permanent secretary under his minister, Jim Hacker at the Department of Administrative Affairs. He is appointed Cabinet Secretary just as Hacker's party enters a leadership crisis, and is instrumental in Hacker's elevation to Prime Minister.
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.
Sir Humphrey Appleby was played by Sir Nigel Hawthorne in Yes, Minister [BBC] Among them is Consult , which summarises people's responses to public calls for information.
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.
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 ...
Civil servants have dubbed a new AI system introduced to reduce millions spent on consultants “Humphrey” after the “machiavellian” adviser from Yes, Minister.. The bundle of tools, named ...
Yes, Prime Minister is a British political satire sitcom, written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. The series is a revival of the sitcom Yes, Prime Minister, which ran from 1986 to 1988. It stars David Haig as Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey, Chris Larkin as Bernard Woolley, and Zoe Telford as Claire Sutton. The revived ...