Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB KBE MVO is a fictional character from the British television series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He was played originally...

British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard...

Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey's real agenda. Haig's portrayal was more manic than Paul Eddington's had been. Sir Humphrey Appleby (Henry Goodman) had been...

English actor. He is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet...

as a stray by a Cabinet Office civil servant and named in honour of Humphrey Appleby, the archetypal civil servant of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister...

Woolley alongside Paul Eddington's Jim Hacker and Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey Appleby. From 1983 to 1985, Fowlds played the lead role in the sitcom Affairs...

British TV crime drama set in WWII. In 2013 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the remake of Yes, Prime Minister which was launched on the Gold...

Minister, frequently conjured up by Nigel Hawthorne's character Sir Humphrey Appleby, but a tea lady was only once seen onscreen during the whole five-series...

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uprisings. In the British Sitcom Yes, Minister, the character Sir Humphrey Appleby often uses obfuscation for comedic effect while trying to confuse and...

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television show Yes, Minister, Jim Hacker frequently drinks sherry with Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Woolley in his office. Sherry, and Amontillado specifically...

Secretary to HM Treasury, urbanely contending with Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey Appleby for supremacy within the civil service. He played Roy Difford in the...

Yang Xianyi, translator of Dream of the Red Chamber into English Sir Humphrey Appleby read classics at the fictional Baillie College, Oxford. Detective Chief...

Minister episode ‘The National Education Service’, Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby recites the phrase after Prime Minister Jim Hacker claims that "hardly...

his Civil Service boss, Sir Humphrey Appleby. Whilst he is theoretically accountable to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance...

for cancer!" (p. 12). In the British TV series Yes, Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby pointed out that "the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from...

Minister, the term is discussed between the Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and his predecessor Sir Arnold Robinson, who are concerned about the...

the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2012, he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in an Australian production of Yes, Prime Minister. In August/September...

revenge. Hacker worked with the ministry's Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, who as a senior civil servant tries to control the ministry and the...

of fiction: the school itself rather less often. The figure of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series Yes Minister is among the best-known Old Wykehamists...

service predominantly characterised through Sir Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey Appleby. The Thick of It, first broadcast in 2005, is a similar BBC television...

ideal candidate. Recognising that Hacker's Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby would advise against him accepting the role, they brief Hacker alone...

Arnold Robinson and Sir Humphrey Appleby. A very thinly veiled stand-in for Balliol; in several episodes Sir Humphrey Appleby is seen wearing a Balliol...

European Union. He was nicknamed "Sir Humphrey" after the Yes Minister permanent secretary character Sir Humphrey Appleby. Robbins joined HM Treasury in 1996...

language. Bureaucracy Business speak Fedspeak Legalese Manual of style Humphrey Appleby – a fictional character noted for his extremes in officialese Wooden...

Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby. The Church Commissioners have suggested a candidate who is a "modernist". Sir Humphrey later explains to the PM...

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