The British actor played Pecksniff in the 1994 miniseries version of Martin Chuzzlewit, and was the voice of older David in the 1999 David Copperfield miniseries. He passed away Saturday at the age of 75.
Wilkinson's BBC News obituary includes some of his thoughts on playing a Dickensian role:
"When he portrayed Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit for the BBC in 1994, Wilkinson said: 'I looked at it and I thought, I can't get it any better than that. It came out exactly as I meant it to come out. It won a couple of prizes and I thought, I can act, there's no question.'"
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