Nigel Harris (''born'' 1949) is a British actor. Harris was born in

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. He is the son of the philosopher,

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, and grandson of Samuel Harris, who with

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was one of the defenders of Kimberly when the town was besieged during the

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. He obtained a B.A. in Philosophy at the

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in 1971, where he was the External Affairs Chairman of the Students’ Union. He trained as a drama teacher at Alsager College of Education (where he acted with and became close friends with

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, who later became one of the

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) in 1973 and as an actor at the

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(where he was a contemporary of

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) in 1976. In film, he has worked with directors

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(playing Guianin Micheluzzi in '' La voce della luna''),

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, and

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. His theatre credits include working with the English fringe theatre company Foco Novo (which was set up by director Roland Rees and playwright Bernard Pomerance so as to produce Pomerance’s plays ''Foco Novo'' and ''The Elephant Man''). For ''Foco Novo'', Harris created the role of The Journeyman (a conflation of the fairground barker, the knife-supplying Jew, and various other characters) in Peter Hulton's translation of ''Woyzeck''. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked at the

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, creating the role of Abb in

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’s ''The Triumph of Death''. His performance in an episode of ''The Bill'' was shown on the 1990 BAFTA Awards program. He lives in

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, England, and from 2005 to 2007, was the chairman of the Midlands Area Committee of

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, the British live arts trade union. In 2011, Harris starred in the one off

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Christmas show, ''

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''. He is a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and is the editor of 'Bound in Shallows, Autobiographical Reminiscences, Memoirs of a Philosopher.' He has also been a successful theatrical agent, when he was a member of the co-operative actors agency The Central Line.

References

Bound in Shallows (Marquette University Press 2015 1949 births Living people South African male stage actors Alumni of the University of Nottingham Actors from Nottingham South African male television actors {{SouthAfrica-actor-stub