Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor. For Disney, he voiced Fflewddur Fflam in the 1985 Disney animated feature film The Black Cauldron and Archimedes Q. Porter in the 1999 Disney animated feature film Tarzan.
Hawthorne was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England and later moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where his father practiced medicine. He attended St George's Grammar School, Cape Town, and later enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he met and sometimes acted in plays, but withdrew and returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue a career in acting.
Beginning to his career on stage, he appeared productions of The Shop at Sly Corner, You Can't Take It With You, As You Like It, The Critic, Shadowlands, Privates on Parade, The Madness of George III, and King Lear. He later appeared, such as the film adaptation of The Madness of King George, Watership Down, Gandhi, Firefox, Richard III (1995), Madeline, The Hiding Place, History of the World: Part I, The Plague Dogs, Turtle Diary, and Amistad.
He also appeared in small roles in various British television before originating his famous role was as Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister as well as several television films, such as Holocaust, A Tale of Two Cities, Pope John Paul II, Victoria & Albert, and Call Me Claus.
By 2000, Hawthorne had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had undergone treatment. Soon after returning home for Christmas 2001, he died of a heart attack.
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