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Nigel Barton Actor Dies

11/15/2017

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The BBC are reporting that actor Keith Barron has passed away at the age of 83 after a short illness. Although known more recently for his role in the sit-com Duty Free, one of his early roles was as the eponymous 'Nigel Barton' in two of Potter's early plays for television. In Stand Up Nigel Barton (1965) he plays the young Oxford educated Nigel struggling to adjust to his new social standing. Coming from a mining community yet now moving amongst the elite he's now 'between two rivers' - no longer feeling he fits in either setting. In Potter's sequel play Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965) he stands for election. Much of the two plays see Barron acting out scenes remarkably close to those of Potter's own life. Barron also playied the young Nigel in flashback - adults playing children, a technique that resurfaced to great effect many years later in Blue Remembered Hills (1979).

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