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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.
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 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.
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 ...
Sir Humphrey is a master of obfuscation and manipulation, baffling his opponents with long-winded technical jargon and circumlocutions, strategically appointing allies to supposedly impartial boards, and setting up interdepartmental committees to smother his minister's proposals in red tape. Goodman's Sir Humphrey was more aloof and ...
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 ...