Nicholas Smith
Nicholas Smith was a British actor best known for his recurring role on the U.K. television comedy Are You Being Served? He appeared on 69 episodes of the series, which took place in a department store, as well as another dozen on the spin-off Are You Being Served? Again!
He played store manager Cuthbert Rumbold in the hit sitcom for more than twenty years: on the first series from 1972 to 1985, on the second from 1992 to 1993, and once more in the 1977 comedic feature, also titled, Are You Being Served? The show also aired in the U.S. on PBS and BBC America.
Smith appeared frequently on British television, including series that were also broadcast in the U.S., such as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Doctor Who, The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions, as well as the telefilm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Kirk Douglas.
Nicholas Smith was a British actor best known for his recurring role on the U.K. television comedy Are You Being Served? He appeared on 69 episodes of the series, which took place in a department store, as well as another dozen on the spin-off Are You Being Served? Again!
He played store manager Cuthbert Rumbold in the hit sitcom for more than twenty years: on the first series from 1972 to 1985, on the second from 1992 to 1993, and once more in the 1977 comedic feature, also titled, Are You Being Served? The show also aired in the U.S. on PBS and BBC America.
Smith appeared frequently on British television, including series that were also broadcast in the U.S., such as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Doctor Who, The Avengers, The Saint and The Champions, as well as the telefilm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Kirk Douglas.
Additionally, he appeared in the feature films The Fiction Makers, with Roger Moore; Salt and Pepper, with Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford; A Walk with Love and Death, starring Anjelica Huston; Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs; Baxter!, with Patricia Neal; and Gene Wilder’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, starring Wilder, Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman. He also voiced the character Reverend Clement Hedges in a Wallace & Gromit film, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Born in Banstead, Surrey, Smith studied singing and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
He died December 6, 2015, in England. He was 81.
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