This accomplished leading man gave an excellent performance as "The Singing Detective", the novelist who becomes—literally-involved with his own characters, in Dennis Potter's highly acclaimed 1986 British TV drama and was equally memorable as the entirely unsympathetic hoodlum title character of Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" (1989). Gambon may be best known in the US for his portrayal of Chief Inspector Maigret on the BBC/PBS series "Maigret". In 1995, he won critical acclaim for two London stage portrayals: as the title role in a revival of Ben Johnson's
