Author: HAWTHORNE, NIGEL
Title: Straight Face - the Autobiography
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340769424). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xi + 340 pages. 46 illustrations. In this exceptional autobiography, written throughout his long battle with cancer, and completed just a few days before he died, Nigel gives the most compelling, entertaining, and intimate portrait of his life. When he left South Africa for England as a young man, his success as an actor was never assured and owed much to his determination which saw him through the rigours of repertory stage management, understudy roles, and cleaning jobs until he won his biggest theatrical break in Joan Littlewood's production of 'Oh, What a Lovely War'. His major triumph in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 'Privates on Parade' led to even greater international success as Sir Humphrey Appleby in television's 'Yes, Minister'. NOT EX LIB A1D. Fine/Near Fine.

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