A South African actor, who relocated to the UK in the 1960s and became a regular on the British stage, most notably at the Royal Shakespeare Company, which he joined in 1982. His screen career was less prodigious, but did include Erik the Viking (1989), The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (1995), Mrs Brown (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004). In 2008, he was nominated for a BAFTA for the television version of Primo (2007), which Sher had himself adapted into a one-man performance from Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoir If This is a Man. Sher was knighted in 2000.
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