Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the CrownThe only unexpected thing about the wonderful actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was that he never played Iago or, indeed, Richard III. Having marked out a special line in sadistic villainy as Ronald Merrick in his career-defining, Bafta award-winning performance in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Granada TV's adaptation f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM on April 9, 2017