British Academy Television Award for Best Actor "Inspector Morse" "'1994 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1995 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1996 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1997 Nigel Hawthorne as Edgar Pascoe in "The Fragile Heart" "'1998 Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool in "A Dance to the Music of Time" "'1999 Tom Courtenay as Roy Southgate in "A Rather English Marriage" "'2000 Michael Gambon as Squire Hamley in "Wives and Daughters" "'2001 Michael Gambon as John Harrison in "Longitude" "'2002 Michael Gambon as Raymond Symon in "Perfect Strangers" "'2003 Albert Finney as Winston
Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard was playing. In reaction to the Quintet's residency at the Village Vanguard in New York City starting in late October 1961, "Down Beat" critic John Tynan described the group as "musical nonsense being peddled in the name of jazz" and "a horrifying demonstration of what appears to be a growing anti-jazz trend." European critics and audiences also had difficulty with appearances earlier in the year, finding the group's music, especially that of Coltrane and Dolphy, puzzling and difficult to follow. "Down Beat" magazine editor Don DeMichael took the step of inviting the pair to defend themselves, a piece appearing in