![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘There was an old-fashioned idea that he had to be tall and handsome and blond. ‘I thought I wasn’t what Hamlet looked like,’ he said. Only Hamlet was omitted, with Sher saying – with characteristic insecurity – that a sense of ‘self-oppression’ prevented him from treading the boards as the Dane. Sher, whose death from cancer aged 72 was announced yesterday, was widely acknowledged as the greatest actor of his generation, and over the course of his 50-year career, played nearly every major Shakespearean role. Antony Sher (pictured) as Sir John Falstaff and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I and II by William Shakespeare
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