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Dateline: 13th August, 2008
Terence Rigby (1937 - 2008) Actor Terence Rigby has died of lung cancer at the age of 71. Born in Birmingham, after national service in the RAF, he went to RADA where he was a contemporary of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and John Thaw. A stint at Birmingham Rep saw him playing in Antony and Cleopatra with Brian Blessed, and then he worked at a number of regional theatres before joinign the national tour of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be. One of his earliest successes was in Peter Hall’s National Theatre production of Pinter’s The Homecoming, after which he and Pinter became good friends and he went on the play Briggs in No Man’s Land with Gielgud and Richardson, Davies in The Caretaker and Pozzo in Hall's 2005 production of Waiting for Godot. At the National he played Macbeth and Albert the Horse in Wind in the Willows. His film career began in 1971 with Get Carter and later films included Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts, Watership Down, Elizabeth and the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. His TV credits include Dixon of Dock Green, Softly, Softly: Taskforce; Z-Cars, Callan, The Saint, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Rumpole of the Bailey, Lovejoy, Our Friends in the North, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, and the soap Crossroads. He played Dr Watson to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes in the BBC's 1992 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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