Through the Years

Television / Actor

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Robbie Coltrane

Cracker
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Nigel Hawthorne

The Fragile Heart
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Simon Russell Beale

A Dance To The Music Of Time
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Tom Courtenay

A Rather English Marriage
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Michael Gambon

Wives And Daughters
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Michael Gambon

Longitude
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Michael Gambon

Perfect Strangers
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Albert Finney

The Gathering Storm
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Through The Years

  • Winner

    Sean Harris

    Southcliffe
    Actor
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    Dominic West

    Burton And Taylor
    Actor
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    Luke Newberry

    In The Flesh
    Actor
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    Jamie Dornan

    The Fall
    Actor
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    Stephen Dillane

    The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall
    Actor
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    Ben Whishaw

    Criminal Justice
    Actor
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    Ken Stott

    Hancock And Joan
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    Jason Isaacs

    The Curse Of Steptoe
    Actor
  • Winner

    Andrew Garfield

    Boy A
    Actor
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    Antony Sher

    Primo
    Actor
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    Matthew Macfadyen

    Secret Life
    Actor
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    Tom Hardy

    Stuart: A Life Backwards
    Actor
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    Jim Broadbent

    Longford
    Actor
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    John Simm

    Life On Mars
    Actor
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    Michael Sheen

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
    Actor
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    Andy Serkis

    Longford
    Actor
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    Mark Rylance

    The Government Inspector
    Actor
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    Rufus Sewell

    The Taming Of The Shrew
    Actor
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    Denis Lawson

    Bleak House
    Actor
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    Bernard Hill

    A Very Social Secretary
    Actor
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    Rhys Ifans

    Not Only But Always
    Actor
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    Mark Strong

    The Long Firm
    Actor
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    Michael Sheen

    Dirty Filthy Love
    Actor
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    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Hawking
    Actor
  • Winner

    Bill Nighy

    State Of Play
    Actor
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    Christopher Eccleston

    The Second Coming
    Actor
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    David Morrissey

    State Of Play
    Actor
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    Jim Broadbent

    The Young Visiters
    Actor
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    Albert Finney

    The Gathering Storm
    Actor
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    James Nesbitt

    Bloody Sunday
    Actor
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    Kenneth Branagh

    Shackleton
    Actor
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    Kenneth Branagh

    Conspiracy
    Actor
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    Michael Gambon

    Perfect Strangers
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    David Suchet

    The Way We Live Now
    Actor
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    Timothy Spall

    Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise
    Actor
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    Alan Bates

    Love In A Cold Climate
    Actor
  • Winner

    Michael Gambon

    Longitude
    Actor
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    Ken Stott

    The Vice
    Actor
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    Pete Postlethwaite

    The Sins
    Actor
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    Steven Mackintosh

    Care
    Actor
  • Winner

    Michael Gambon

    Wives And Daughters
    Actor
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    Timothy Spall

    Shooting The Past
    Actor
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    Pete Postlethwaite

    Lost For Words
    Actor
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    Aidan Gillen

    Queer As Folk
    Actor
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    Tom Courtenay

    A Rather English Marriage
    Actor
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    Timothy Spall

    Our Mutual Friend
    Actor
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    Albert Finney

    A Rather English Marriage
    Actor
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    Robert Carlyle

    Looking After Jo Jo
    Actor
  • Winner

    Simon Russell Beale

    A Dance To The Music Of Time
    Actor
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    Tom Wilkinson

    Cold Enough For Snow
    Actor
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    Derek Jacobi

    Breaking The Code
    Actor
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    Robert Carlyle

    Hamish Macbeth
    Actor
  • Winner

    Nigel Hawthorne

    The Fragile Heart
    Actor
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    Peter Vaughan

    Our Friends In The North
    Actor
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    Albert Finney

    Cold Lazarus/Karaoke
    Actor
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    Christopher Eccleston

    Our Friends In The North
    Actor
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    Robbie Coltrane

    Cracker
    Actor
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    Benjamin Whitrow

    Pride And Prejudice
    Actor
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    Ian Richardson

    The Final Cut
    Actor
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    Robert Lindsay

    Jake's Progress
    Actor
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    Colin Firth

    Pride And Prejudice
    Actor
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    Robbie Coltrane

    Cracker
    Actor
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    Tom Wilkinson

    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Actor
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    Paul Scofield

    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Actor
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    Pete Postlethwaite

    Martin Chuzzlewit
    Actor
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    Robbie Coltrane

    Cracker
    Actor
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    Ian Richardson

    To Play The King
    Actor
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    Neil Pearson

    Between The Lines
    Actor
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    Michael Kitchen

    To Play The King
    Actor
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    John Thaw

    Inspector Morse
    Actor
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    Brian Cox

    The Lost Language Of Cranes
    Actor
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    Ian Richardson

    An Ungentlemanly Act
    Actor
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    Alan Bates

    Unnatural Pursuits
    Actor
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    Robert Lindsay

    GBH
    Actor
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    John Thaw

    Inspector Morse
    Actor
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    Michael Palin

    GBH
    Actor
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    Tom Bell

    Prime Suspect
    Actor
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    Ian Richardson

    House Of Cards
    Actor
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    John Thaw

    Inspector Morse
    Actor
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    David Suchet

    Agatha Christie's Poirot
    Actor
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    Albert Finney

    The Green Man
    Actor
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    John Thaw

    Inspector Morse
    Actor
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    John Gielgud

    Summer's Lease
    Actor
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    Alfred Molina

    The Accountant
    Actor
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    Joss Ackland

    First And Last
    Actor
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    Ray McAnally

    A Very British Coup
    Actor
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    Colin Firth

    Tumbledown
    Actor
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    Ian Holm

    Game, Set And Match
    Actor
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    Alan Bennett

    A Chip In The Sugar
    Actor
  • Winner

    David Jason

    Porterhouse Blue
    Actor
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    Ray McAnally

    A Perfect Spy/Scout
    Actor
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    Robbie Coltrane

    Tutti Frutti
    Actor
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    Kenneth Branagh

    Fortunes Of War/The Lady’s Not For Burning
    Actor
  • Winner

    Michael Gambon

    The Singing Detective
    Actor
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    David Threlfall

    Paradise Postponed
    Actor
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    Paul McGann

    The Monocled Mutineer
    Actor
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    Patrick Malahide

    The Singing Detective
    Actor
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    Denholm Elliott

    Hotel Du Lac
    Actor
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    Colin Blakely

    Drums Along Balmoral Drive
    Actor
  • Winner

    Bob Peck

    Edge Of Darkness
    Actor
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    Alec Guinness

    Monsignor Quixote
    Actor
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    Ben Kingsley

    Silas Marner
    Actor
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    Joe Don Baker

    Edge Of Darkness
    Actor
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    Tim Pigott-Smith

    The Jewel In The Crown
    Actor
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    Charles Dance

    The Jewel In The Crown
    Actor
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    Art Malik

    The Jewel In The Crown
    Actor
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    George Cole

    Minder
    Actor
  • Winner

    Alan Bates

    An Englishman Abroad
    Actor
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    Martin Sheen

    Kennedy
    Actor
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    Ronald Pickup

    Orwell On Jura/Waters Of The Moon
    Actor
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    Leo McKern

    Rumpole Of The Bailey/Reilly, Ace Of Spies
    Actor
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    Alec Guinness

    Smiley's People
    Actor
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    Laurence Olivier

    A Voyage Round My Father
    Actor
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    Bernard Hill

    Boys From The Blackstuff
    Actor
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    George Cole

    Minder
    Actor
  • Winner

    Anthony Andrews

    Brideshead Revisited
    Actor
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    Jeremy Irons

    Brideshead Revisited
    Actor
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    Robert Hardy

    Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years/Fothergill
    Actor
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    John Gielgud

    Brideshead Revisited
    Actor
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    Denholm Elliott

    Gentle Folk/In Hiding/Blade On The Feather/The Stinker
    Actor
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    Sam Waterston

    Oppenheimer
    Actor
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    Leo McKern

    Rumple's Return
    Actor
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    Trevor Howard

    The Shillingbury Blowers/Staying On
    Actor
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    Alec Guinness

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Actor
    Nominee

    Timothy West

    Churchill And The Generals/Henry VIII/Crime And Punishment/Timothy West As Beecham
    Actor
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    Leo McKern

    Rumpole Of The Bailey
    Actor
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    Robert Hardy

    Speed King/All Creatures Great And Small
    Actor
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    Edward Fox

    Edward And Mrs Simpson
    Actor
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    Bob Hoskins

    Pennies From Heaven
    Actor
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    Ian Holm

    Night School/Flayed/Mirage/Lost Boys
    Actor
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    Tom Bell

    Out
    Actor
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    Peter Barkworth

    Professional Foul/The Country Party
    Actor
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    Robert Powell

    Jesus Of Nazareth
    Actor
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    Derek Jacobi

    Philby, Burgess And Maclean
    Actor
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    James Bolam

    When The Boat Comes In
    Actor
  • Winner

    Derek Jacobi

    I, Claudius
    Actor
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    Jack Shepherd

    Ready When You Are Mr McGill
    Actor
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    Tom Conti

    The Glittering Prizes
    Actor
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    James Bolam

    When The Boat Comes In
    Actor
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    John Hurt

    The Naked Civil Servant/Nijinsky, God Of The Dance
    Actor
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    Timothy West

    Edward VII
    Actor
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    Tony Britton

    The Nearly Man
    Actor
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    Alan Bates

    Plaintiffs And Defendants/Two Sundays
    Actor
  • Winner

    Peter Barkworth

    Crown Matrimonial
    Actor
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    Arthur Lowe

    Microbes And Men/David Copperfield
    Actor
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    Gordon Jackson

    Upstairs, Downstairs
    Actor
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    Michael Bryant

    Mr Axelford's Angel
    Actor
  • Winner

    Frank Finlay

    The Adventures Of Don Quixote/Candide/The Death Of Adolf Hitler
    Actor
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    Laurence Olivier

    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Actor
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    Bernard Hepton

    The Adventures Of Don Quixote/Colditz
    Actor
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    Michael Crawford

    Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
    Actor
  • Winner

    Anthony Hopkins

    War And Peace
    Actor
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    Nicol Williamson

    The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui
    Actor
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    Michael Bryant

    The Duchess Of Malfi/Colditz: Tweedledum
    Actor
  • Winner

    John Le Mesurier

    Traitor
    Actor
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    Frank Finlay

    Casanova
    Actor
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    Kenneth Haigh

    The Search For The Nile/Man At The Top
    Actor
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    Alfred Burke

    Public Eye
    Actor
  • Winner

    Keith Michell

    The Six Wives Of Henry VIII/An Ideal Husband
    Actor
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    Freddie Jones

    Germinal/Omnibus: John Clare "I Am..."/Sweeney Todd/Uncle Vanya/Menace: The Straight And Narrow
    Actor
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    Anthony Hopkins

    The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens/Uncle Vanya/Hearts And Flowers/Biography: Danton
    Actor
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    Michael Jayston

    The Hero Of My Life - Charles Dickens/Mad Jack/Biography: Beethoven
    Actor
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    Michael Bryant

    The Roads To Freedom
    Actor
  • Winner

    Edward Woodward

    Callan/Omnibus: A Dream Divided/A Bit Of A Holiday
    Actor
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    Colin Blakely

    The Son Of Man/The Way We Live Now
    Actor
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    Arthur Lowe

    Dad's Army
    Actor
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    John Alderton

    Please Sir!
    Actor
  • Winner

    Roy Dotrice

    Brief Lives
    Actor
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    Eric Porter

    Eric Porter
    Actor
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    Warren Mitchell

    Warren Mitchell
    Actor
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    Alan Badel

    The Count Of Monte Cristo/Meeting Point/A Couple Of Dry Martinis/Not So Much A Programme…/Famous Gossips
    Actor
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    Patrick Wymark

    The Plane Makers/Crime and Punishment/Once a Jolly Swagman/Malatesta/Sherlock Holmes/I Remember the Battle/Four of Hearts - Tilt
    Actor
    Nominee

    Ian Carmichael

    Simon and Laura/The World of Wooster
    Actor
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    Richard Briers

    Simon and Laura/Marriage Lines/Points of View/Present Laughter - Excerpt/Charley's Aunt/To You At Home Today
    Actor
  • Winner

    Patrick Wymark

    Patrick Wymark
    Actor
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    Alan Badel

    Alan Badel
    Actor
  • Winner

    Harry H Corbett

    Harry H Corbett
    Actor
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    Rupert Davies

    Rupert Davies
    Actor
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    Lee Montague

    Lee Montague
    Actor
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    Patrick McGoohan

    Patrick McGoohan
    Actor
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    Donald Pleasence

    Donald Pleasence
    Actor
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    Michael Hordern

    Michael Hordern
    Actor
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    Michael Gough

    Michael Gough
    Actor
  • Winner

    Peter Cushing

    Peter Cushing
    Actor
  • Winner

    Paul Rogers

    Paul Rogers
    Actor