It is another career swerve for the versatile 71-year-old comic and actor. Rhys Jones was famous for being half of a double act with Mel Smith, who died, aged 60, in 2013. In I’m Sorry, Prime Minister he is in a new double act, with Clive Francis as his smooth talking permanent secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby. “I adore Clive. The idea of forming a relationship with an actor is one of the greatest joys of doing a play together,” says Rhys Jones.
Griff Rhys Jones returns to stage in I’m Sorry, Prime Minister
