Eton-educated British character actor who specialised in comic portrayals of upper-class eccentrics. Well-remembered as sidekick "Hastings" to Peter Ustinov's "Poirot" during the 1980's.
Studied for two years at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
A member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club's touring production of 'Bartholomew Fair'. which was co directed by Ken Loach.
Prep school education at the Dragon at Oxford. then university at Eton with part of his university time spent at the Sorbonne in France.
Jonathon Cecil was a descendant of Sir William Cecil, Lord, later 1st Baron Burghley, Lord Treasurer and Chief Minister to Queen Elizabeth 1 for 40 years, via his younger son Robert, created 1st Earl of Salisbury in 1605.