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Nicky Henson

Actor

Born - 12 May 1945, Marylebone, London, England
Died - 15 December 2019

Light-haired, youthful-looking British actor, mostly in light comedy, jack-the-lad roles calling for dash and aggressive masculinity. Like his father, revue comedian Leslie Henson, he had a few leading roles in films, before later reappearing as a balding character player. On TV at 16, films two years later - including Father Came Too (1963), Every Day's a Holiday (1964), Doctor in Clover (1964), The Jokers (1966), Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), Witchfinder-General (1968), Crooks and Coronets (1968), There's a Girl in My Soup (1970), All Coppers Are... (1971), The Love Ban (1972), Psychomania (1972), Penny Gold (1973), Vampira/Old Dracula (1974), The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1975), No.1 of the Secret Service (1977), The Secret of Seagull Island (1980), Parting Shots (1998), Me Without You (2001), Vera Drake (2004), Syriana (2005), Blitz (2011), We Still Kill the Old Way (2014), Narcopolis (2015), We Still Steal the Old Way (2016), The Holly Kane Experiment (2017) and Tango One (2018), his last. Actress Una Stubbs was the first of his two wives. Marguerite, his wife of 33 years, survives him. He died from cancer.