The Graduate

From this morning’s
New York Times:

Classmates: Actor Ian Richardson and writer Art Buchwald

The actor Ian Richardson

Richardson died yesterday,
Friday, Feb. 9, 2007.

He seems well qualified
to be patron saint of
  the “icily sardonic.”

“… it was his portrayal of the alluringly evil Francis Urquhart, a scheming, icily sardonic Tory member of Parliament, that finally made him a household name in Britain and a celebrity abroad.”

Campbell Robertson in today’s New York Times

Related material: Log24 yesterday, the date of Richardson’s death.