Benjamin Whitrow obituary by Michael Coveney

Expert supporting actor equally at home on stage and screen'Benjamin Whitrow has never given a bad performance," said Laurence Olivier, who employed the actor in his National Theatre company at the Old Vic for seven years in the late 1960s. By the same token, you might deduce that Olivier never thought of Whitrow, who has died aged 80, as a barnstormer.And you would be right. Whitrow's stock-in-trade was an avuncular…

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