Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jonathan Cecil (born 22 February 1939) is an English theatre, film and television actor. His full name is Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil. Cecil was born in London, England, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy. Brought up at Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith professor of English, he was educated at Eton, where he played small parts in school plays, and at the University of Oxford, where he read Modern languages, specializing in French, and continued with amateur dramatics.