Terence Rigby

Infobox actor
name = Terence Rigby


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birthname = Terence Christopher Rigby
birthdate = birth date|1937|1|2
birthplace = Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
deathdate = death date and age|2008|8|10|1937|1|2
deathplace = London, England, UK
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occupation = actor
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Terence Rigby (2 January 1937 - 10 August 2008) was an English actor with a number of film and television credits to his name. In the 1970s he was well-known as police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running series ""

Film roles included: "Get Carter" (1971), "Watership Down" (1978), "Testimony" (1988), "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "Elizabeth" (1998), and "Colour Me Kubrick" (2006).

TV credits included: "Dixon of Dock Green", ""; "Z-Cars", "The First Lady", "Callan", "The Saint", "Public Eye", "Edward and Mrs Simpson", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"; "Airline", "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Boon", "Lovejoy", "Our Friends in the North", "Holby City", "Midsomer Murders", "Crossroads" (playing the part of motel boss, Tommy Lancaster), "The Beiderbecke Affair" and "The Beiderbecke Connection".

He was also Dr Watson to Tom Baker's Sherlock Holmes. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1982) was known amongst the crew as the 'Tom and Terry show'.

Among his stage credits was the première of "No Man's Land" by Harold Pinter, at the Royal National Theatre in 1975, in which he played a supporting role to the leads played by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

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*imdb name|id=0726600|name=Terence Rigby
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7554044.stm BBC News, actor Terence Rigby has died]
* [http://www.terencerigby.info/index.html Terence Rigby website]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2541854/Terence-Rigby.html Obituary] in "The Telegraph"
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/12/television.television Obituary] in "The Guardian"
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4507889.ece Obituary] in "The Times"
* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/21587/terence-rigby Obituary] in "The Stage"
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/terence-rigby-actor-admired-by-harold-pinter-902859.html Obituary] in "The Independent"

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NAME= Rigby, Terence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Rigby, Terence Christopher
SHORT DESCRIPTION= actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1937-1-2
PLACE OF BIRTH= Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
DATE OF DEATH= 2008-8-10
PLACE OF DEATH= London, England, UK