Terence Rigby

Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby (2 January 1937 – 10 August 2008) was an English actor, most notable for playing police dog-handler PC Snow in the long-running series Softly, Softly: Task Force.

Other credts include Dixon of Dock Green (1964-1967), Get Carter (1971), Watership Down (1978), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), The Beiderbecke Connection (1985), Crossroads, Kings Oak (1987-1988), Boon (1991), Lovejoy (1994), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Born to Run (1997), Elizabeth (1998), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Colour Me Kubrick (2006), and Flick (2008).

Early life Terence Rigby was born in Erdington, Birmingham, and was educated at St Philip's School. He was trained at RADA and had his national service in the Royal Air Force.

Career His film roles included Get Carter (1971), Watership Down (1978), Elizabeth (1998), Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and Colour Me Kubrick (2006).

Segments from Rigby's abbreviated autobiography, begun shortly before his death, are included in the book by his long-time friend, the television and radio dramatist Juliet Ace, Rigby Shlept Here: A Memoir of Terence Rigby 1937-2008.

Death Rigby died at home in London on 10 August 2008 of lung cancer.

Partial filmography

Accident (1967) – Plain Clothed Policeman Get Carter (1971) – Gerald Fletcher The Homecoming (1973) – Joey Watership Down (1978) – Silver (voice) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979, TV miniseries) – Roy Bland The Dogs of War (1980) – Hackett The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982, TV miniseries) - Dr. Watson Anyone for Denis? (1982, TV movie) – Major The Sign of Four (1983, TV movie) – Inspector Layton Testimony (1988) – Joseph Stalin Scandal (1989) – James Burge The Children (1990) – Duke of Mendip The Young Americans (1993) – Sidney Callow Funny Bones (1995) – Billy Man England, My England (1995) – Captain Henry Cooke Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) – General Bukharin Elizabeth (1998) – Bishop Stephen Gardiner Plunkett and Macleane (1999) – Harrison Simon Magus (1999) – Bratislav The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka of The Mystery of Chopin (1999) – Sydow Essex Boys (2000) – Henry Hobbs Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002) – Henry Caldicot Mona Lisa Smile (2003) – Dr. Edward Staunton Colour Me Kubrick (2006) – Norman Flick (2008) – Creeper Martin (final film role)