Nigel Patrick

Nigel Patrick
Born	Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman 2 May 1912(1912-05-02) Clapham London
Died	21 September 1981(1981-09-21) (aged 69) London, England
Occupation	Actor/Director/Stage Manager/Writer
Years active	1932-81
Spouse	Beatrice Campbell (1951-79) (her death) 2 children
Awards	Zulueta Award - Best Actor 1960 The League of Gentlemen

Nigel Patrick (born Nigel Dennis Wemyss; 2 May 1912 - 21 September 1981) was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.

Biography

Patrick was born in London, England, the son of actress Dorothy Turner (d. 1969). He made his professional stage debut in The Life Machine at the Regent Theatre, King's Cross in 1932 following a period in repertory. Thereafter he appeared in many successful plays including the long-running George and Margaret at the Wyndham's Theatre which ran for 799 performances.

His film career was put on hold until after service in World War II during which, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, he fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.

During the late 1940s and 1950s he became a popular, debonair leading man in British film with notable success in The Sound Barrier (1952), under the direction of David Lean, as Race in The League of Gentlemen (1959) and the thought provoking Sapphire (1959), the winner of Best British Film at the 1960 BAFTA Film Awards.

As the 1960s dawned he made a strong return to the theatre, occupying the dual role of actor/director in numerous West End productions including a revival of the Noel Coward work Present Laughter at the Queen's Theatre (1965) and Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking (1967) at the Duke of York's Theatre.

He married the actress Beatrice Campbell at St James' Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Marylebone, London on 12 January 1951. She predeceased him in 1979 and he died two years later from lung cancer on 21 September 1981.

Filmography

As an actor

• Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (1940)
• Uneasy Terms (1948)
• Spring in Park Lane (1948)
• Noose (1948)
• Silent Dust (1949)
• The Jack of Diamonds (1949)
• The Perfect Woman (1949)
• Morning Departure (1950)
• Trio (Segment: "Mr. Know-All") (1950)
• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
• The Browning Version (1951)
• Encore (Segment: "The Ant and the Grasshopper") (1951)
• Young Wives' Tale (1951)
• Who Goes There! (1952)
• The Sound Barrier (1952)
• Meet Me Tonight (1952)
• The Pickwick Papers (1952)
• Grand National Night (1953)
• Forbidden Cargo (1954)

• The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
• A Prize of Gold (1955)
• All for Mary (1955)
• How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
• Raintree County (1957)
• Count Five and Die (1957)
• The Man Inside (1958)
• Sapphire (1959)
• The League of Gentlemen (1960)
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
• Johnny Nobody (1961)
• The Informers (1963)
• Battle of Britain (1969)
• The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
• The Executioner (1970)
• Tales from the Crypt (1972)
• The Great Waltz (1972)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973)
• Silver Bears (1978)

As a director

• How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957)
• Johnny Nobody (1961)

As a writer

• The Jack of Diamonds (1949)

As a narrator

• Arrivederci Roma (1958)
• Goal! World Cup 1966 (1966)
• The Year of Sir Ivor (1969)

Theatre credits

As an actor

• The Life Machine (1932)
• Half a Crown (1934)
• Ringmaster (1935)
• Roulette (1935)
• The Lady of La Paz (1936)
• Madmoiselle (1936)
• George & Margaret (1937)
• Tony Draws a Horse (1939)
• Children to Bless You (1939)
• Fools Rush In (1946)
• To-morrow's Child (1946)
• Noose (1947)
• Who Goes There! (1951)
• Escapade (1953)

• Birthday Honours (1953)
• Green Room Rags (1954)
• The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1955)
• The Egg (1957)
• Pleasure of His Company (1959)
• Settled Out of Court (1960)
• The Schoolmistress (1964)
• Present Laughter (1965)
• Best of Friends (1970)
• Reunion in Vienna (1971)
• Habeas Corpus (1974)
• The Pay Off (1974)
• Dear Daddy (1976)
• Peter Pan (1978)

As a director/stage manager

• No Way to Kill (1958)
• Not in the Book (1958)
• Pleasure of His Company (1959)
• Settled Out of Court (1960)
• Past Imperfect (1964)
• Present Laughter (1965)
• Relatively Speaking (1967)
• The Others (1967)
• Avanti (1968)
• Out of the Question (1968)
• Trio (The Will, Village Wooing and Ways and Means) (1969)
• Three (How He Lied to Her Husband, Village Wooing and Press Cuttings) (1970)
• The Pay Off (1974)
• Suite in Two Keys (1978)
• The Last of Mrs Cheyney (1980)

Television

• Morning Departure (1946)
• Zero One (1962–65)
• Looks Familiar
• It Takes a Thief - "Flowers from Alexander" (1969)
• Sunday Night Thriller - "Blunt Instrument" (1981)

External links

• Nigel Patrick at the Internet Movie Database
• Nigel Patrick at the Internet Broadway Database
• Nigel Patrick at Find a Grave