Background
Terence Rigby was born in Erdington, Birmingham, and was educated at Street Philip"s School.
Terence Rigby was born in Erdington, Birmingham, and was educated at Street Philip"s School.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
In the 1970s he was well known as police dog-handler Personal Computer Snow in the long-running series Softly, Softly: Taskforce He did his national service in the Royal Air Force. Film roles included:, Watership Down (1978),,, and Notable television roles include Dixon of Dock Green, Softly, Softly: Taskforce.
Z-Cars, The First Lady, Callan, The Saint, Public Eye, Edward & Mistress
Simpson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Airline, Rumpole of the Bailey, Boon, Lovejoy, Our Friends in the North, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Crossroads, Kings Oak (playing the part of motel boss, Tommy Lancaster), The Beiderbecke Affair and The Beiderbecke Connection.
He was also Doctor 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 Number Manitoba"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.
His first work with Pinter was in the original Peter Hall production of The Homecoming (1965), when he created the role of Joey. He received considerable acclaim for his portrayal of Joseph Stalin in another National Theatre production, Robert Bolt"s State of Revolution, opposite Michael Bryant. Along with correspondence and interviews with his friends and theatrical colleagues, Ace’s memoir draws on her own diaries and shows much of the working actor and private man who remained a mystery to those close to him.
lieutenant was published in November,2014.
Rigby on 10 August 2008, of lung cancer, after a period of illness.