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Feb 22, 2024 · “You’ve got me at the right moment,” says David Haig, the actor who for decades cornered the market in playing affable but uptight Brits with frayed comic brio. And there we were thinking he was easing into retirement, aged 68.
David Haig Collum Ward MBE (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play My Boy Jack, which premièred at the Hampstead Theatre on 13 October 1997.
Mar 13, 2017 · For a man who is discussing his own mortality, actor David Haig MBE seems remarkably cheerful. “A young person says, ‘Yes, I’m going to die, but understands it only intellectually,” he says.
‘The extraordinary thing,’ says Haig, ‘was that Churchill and FDR condoned the relationship because it soothed and calmed Eisenhower.’
Actor & writer David Haig, currently starring in the West End return of Life x 3, considers giving up acting, the extravagance of Gallic humour & the appeal of Picasso’s promiscuity.
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David Haig’s World War II thriller Pressure, in which hundreds of thousands of lives hinge on two warring meteorologists’ forecasts, makes a West End transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre.