Antony Sher RIP

[TheDecameron]

First saw him on TV in a student flat when we were glued to the adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man. He plays a university lecturer and complete shit called Howard Kirk who reminded us of one of our own lecturers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man
Later a 1990 TV play he wrote and acted in as a doctor along with an aristocratic nurse played by Eleanor Bron who ran a WW1 Scottish military rehabilitation hospital and would put the gramophone on in the evenings while injecting themselves with morphine.
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/defbaeaf6fb61c094c90263b8369e9f7

His Shakespeare is what he is rightly famous for.

 

[Marchbanks]

Oh, man. He was good.

First saw him on TV in a student flat when we were glued to the adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man. He plays a university lecturer and complete shit called Howard Kirk who reminded us of one of our own lecturers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_Man

I worked on that! And another TV drama called The Sheik of Pickersgill. He played Sheik Fahmi. You can probably guess how that was pronounced.

His Shakespeare is what he is rightly famous for.

He was a fantastic Shylock in a production of MoV (duh) that I saw many years ago. Tom Wilkinson was Antonio, IIRC.

 

[Snufkin]

Shallow as I am, I only know his portrayal of Howard Kirk in The History Man and that was stupendous. RIP Mr Sher

 

[Marchbanks]

Shallow as I am, I only know his portrayal of Howard Kirk in The History Man and that was stupendous. RIP Mr Sher

That’s Sir Tone to you!

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

Managed to catch him on stage only once, at the National Theatre, in Stephen Berkoff's production of Kafka's The Trial. And very good he was too.

Mick

 

[Bob McC]

I was lucky to see his wonderful Falstaff in the RSC Henry IV parts I and II.
A great talent who will be sorely missed.

 

[AllyD]

One of my favourite actors. The History Man was must see television at the time.