Celebrity Biographies
Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith had a strong reputation as a stage actor in Britain. In audiovisual media he worked more sporadically, but had outstanding interventions in titles such as “Evasion or victory” and “Bloody Sunday.” The actor abandoned the rehearsal of his latest production due to health problems. Shortly after, his agent announced that he had passed away on April 7, 2017. “He will be remembered by many as a true gentleman and friend. He will be sorely missed. We ask that you respect the privacy of his wife, actress Pamela Miles, his son Tom and the family,” he said.
Born in Rubgy, the town in the English county of Warwickshire where the sport of the same name was invented, on May 13, 1946, Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith was the son of a journalist. He studied acting at the Old Vic Theater School in Bristol. Afterwards he dedicated himself mainly to the theater, obtaining good reviews in stage roles, for example in the production of “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare , which is considered one of the peaks of his career.p>
In parallel, he began to play small roles, first in series, such as Doctor Who . In 1984 he starred in the 14-part miniseries The Jewel in the Crown , where he played a police inspector in India in 1942, when the riots that ended with the country’s independence began. During the filming in the filming locations he wrote a diary that was later published, beginning a small career as a writer, since he later wrote two books of the series “The Baker Street Mysteries”.
On the big screen, Tim Pigott-Smith has limited himself to one-off jobs. For example, he played an English prisoner in Escape or Victory . He began to lavish himself a little more from the 90s, starting with his work as Tom Benn, the man Emma Thompson marries out of spite , actually in love with Anthony Hopkins ‘ character , in What Remains of the day . He could next be seen in Alexander the Great , The Four Feathers , Gangs of New York , Johnny English , and V for Vendetta.. He also made a brief appearance, as the Foreign Secretary in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace .