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1980 Beryl Reid for Born in the Gardens
- Edward Duke for Jeeves Takes Charge
- Ben Kingsley for The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Julie Walters for Educating Rita
1981 Rowan Atkinson for Rowan Atkinson in Revue
- Georgina Hale for Steaming
- Donald Sinden for Present Laughter
- Angela Thorne for Anyone for Denis?
1982 Geoffrey Hutchings for Poppy
- Jane Carr for A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Paul Eddington for Noises Off
- Bill Paterson for Schweyk
1983 Griff Rhys Jones for Charley's Aunt
- Susan Colverd for The Provok'd Wife
- Michael Hordern for The Rivals
- Peter Ustinov for Beethoven's Tenth
1984 Maureen Lipman for See How They Run
- Lavinia Bertram for Intimate Exchanges
- Leonard Rossiter for Loot
- Michael Williams for Two Into One
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1985 Michael Gambon for A Chorus of Disapproval
- Roger Rees for Love's Labours Lost
- Griff Rhys Jones for Trumpets and Raspberries
- Maggie Smith for The Way of the World
1986 Bill Fraser for When We Are Married
- Brian Cox for Misalliance
- Nigel Hawthorne for The Magistrate
- Paul Scofield for I'm Not Rappaport
1987 John Woodvine for The Henry's
- Frank Ferrante for Groucho
- Geoffrey Hutchings for Three Men on a Horse
- Lee Marsden for Groucho
1988 Alex Jennings for Two Clever By Half
- Kenneth Branagh for As You Like it
- Lesley Sharp for A Family Affair
- Sian Thomas for Countrymania
1989/90 Michael Gambon for Man of the Moment
- Alex Jennings for The Liar
- Alfred Molina for Speed-the-Plow
- Peter O'Toole for Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
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