Jonathan Cecil
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| Born |
Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil 22 February 1939 London, England, UK |
| Died | 22 September 2011 (aged 72) Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1963–2011 |
| Spouse(s) |
Vivien Heilbron 1963 [1] Anna Sharkey 1976-2011; his death |
Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), more commonly known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English theatre, film and television actor.
Cecil was born in London, England, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of The 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. He was the great-grandson of former Conservative Prime Minister The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
Brought up at Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, he was educated at Eton, where he played small parts in school plays and at New College, Oxford, where he read modern languages, specialising in French and continued with amateur dramatics.
At Oxford, his friends included Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. In a production of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, he played a lunatic called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs. Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said
I was still stiff and awkward, but this was rather effective for comedy parts, playing sort of comic servants in plays, and in the cabaret nights we had.
After Oxford, he spent two years training for an acting career at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he was taught by (among others) Michael MacOwan and Vivian Matalon and where his contemporaries included Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.
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