Tom Wilkinson, Acclaimed Actor Of ‘The Full Monty,’ ‘Michael Clayton,’ ‘Batman Begins’ And More, Has Died At 75

Tom Wilkinson, the beloved and acclaimed British actor who was an always welcome fixture of movies and TV, has died, according to the BBC. He was 75. No cause of death has yet been released.

For decades, Wilkinson gave dozens of performances that were forceful yet soulful, characters who steamrolled their way into stories but were held back by neuroses and pain. He played all manner of types:

There are many roles besides, all of them richly portrayed by one of England’s finest character actors. Wilkinson mostly subsisted on supporting characters, though he never kept to the background. He always forced his way to the forefront with the power of his presence, creating magnetically complicated characters who visibly wrestled with demons.

His work seemed to slow down a bit in the last few years, though he was always still around. One of his last turns was reprising one of his breakthrough roles in Disney+’s Full Monty revamp. There’s plenty more besides, memorable turns in Sense and Sensibility, Rush Hour, Shakespeare in Love, Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, Valkyrie, Duplicity, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Ghost Writer, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Snowden, and many more. The cinema, and the world, is poorer for no longer having him in it.

We leave you with a snipped from one of his best performances: the opening of Michael Clayton, in which he hear but do not see him as he dumps a manic monologue — our chilling introduction to a character who’s lost his mind after confronting his shameful past.