Terence Rigby

Terence Rigby was an English actor. He was born in Erdington, Birmingham, trained at RADA, and did national service in the Royal Air Force. He became widely known for playing PC Snow, the police dog handler, in the series Softly, Softly: Task Force, and he appeared in many other television dramas, among them Dixon of Dock Green, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which he was Dr Watson to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes. His film work included Get Carter (1971) and Watership Down (1978), as well as Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Elizabeth (1998), and Colour Me Kubrick (2006). On stage, he created Joey in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming for Peter Hall, later playing Briggs in the premiere of No Man's Land at the National Theatre, and he drew considerable acclaim as Joseph Stalin in Robert Bolt's State of Revolution. He also appeared on Broadway in Hamlet and Amadeus.