Actor Rigby dies aged 71

Published Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 18:20 by Rebecca Herbert

Television and stage actor Terence Rigby has died at his home aged 71.

Rigby studied at RADA, before winning his first professional jobs with the Birmingham Repertory Company in Anthony and Cleopatra and She Stoops to Conquer.

During Rigby’s theatrical career, he appeared in John Osborne’s Epitaph for George Dillon, Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming and worked alongside John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in both the London and New York productions of Pinter’s No Man’s Land. Rigby collaborated on several occasions with director Peter Hall - most recently in 2005 on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot.

Rigby is best known for his role as PC Snow, which he played during the sixties and seventies in Softly, Softly - Task Force. He also featured in shows including Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Our Friends in the North.

His film credits included Get Carter, Mona Lisa Smile and Tomorrow Never Dies.

He died of lung cancer at his London home on August 10.