Tim Pigott-Smith: a life on stage and screen – in pictures
Theatre, film and TV actor Tim Pigott-Smith came to the British public’s attention as Ronald Merrick in the 1984 TV series The Jewel in the Crown, and starred in plays and films including King Charles III, King Lear and V for Vendetta
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With Penelope Wilton in A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee at the Almeida theatre, London
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian
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As sadistic police officer Ronald Merrick in the acclaimed TV series The Jewel in the Crown
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock
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As Henry Higgins in the 2007 production of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Theatre Royal, Bath, with Una Stubbs and Michelle Dockery
Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex/Shutterstock
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As King Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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As the Duke of Florence in Women Beware Women with Hayley Atwell at the Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2006
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian
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As the title role in King Charles III at the Wyndham’s theatre in London, which he also starred in for the Broadway run
Photograph: Matt Humphrey/Curtain Call
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In the 2005 film V for Vendetta
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In the 2010 production of Educating Rita with Laura dos Santos at Trafalgar Studios, London
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian
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Appearing in his penultimate television performance as Sniggs in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall
Photograph: Tiger Aspect/BBC/Tiger Aspect
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With Dame Helen Mirren in Mourning Becomes Electra at the National Theatre in London
Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis/Getty Images
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Playing Scrooge in the the 2002 performance of A Christmas Carol at the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian
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As Ken Lay in Enron at the Chichester Festival theatre, 2009
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/for the Guardian
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Playing Prospero in The Tempest at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2012
Photograph: Geraint Lewis/Rex/Shutterstock
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In the ITV programme I Remember Nelson in 1982
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Tim Pigott Smith, 1946-2017
Photograph: Geraint Lewis/Rex Features
