Benjamin Whitrow obituary | Stage | The Guardian

The quietly hilarious Benjamin Whitrow with Alison Steadman as Mr and Mrs Bennet in the BBC’s 1995 serial of Pride and Prejudice. Photograph: Lyons/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock

‘Benjamin Whitrow has never given a bad performance,” said Laurence Olivier, who employed the actor in his National Theatre company at the Old Vic for seven years in the late 1960s. By the same token, you might deduce that Olivier never thought of Whitrow, who has died aged 80, as a barnstormer.

And you would be right. Whitrow’s stock-in-trade was an avuncular, measured rationality, a superb stillness on the stage and…

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