Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 12, 1948
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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Anthony Andrews
Biography
Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.
Anthony's first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".
Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.
Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.
Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia
(1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Benjamin Jowett |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Stanley Baldwin |
| 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self |
| 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Self |
| 2001 | David Copperfield | Mr. Edward Murdstone |
| 1997 | Mothertime | Robin |
| 1995 | Haunted | Robert Mariell |
| 1992 | The Law Lord | Christopher Edwardes |
| 1991 | Lost in Siberia | Andrei Miller |
| 1990 | Hands of a Murderer | Prof. James Moriarty |
| 1989 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde |
| 1988 | The Woman He Loved | Prince of Wales / Edward VIII |
| 1988 | Hanna's War | McCormack |
| 1987 | The Second Victory | Maj. Hanlon |
| 1987 | The Grand Knockout Tournament | Self |
| 1987 | Suspicion | Johnnie Aysgarth |
| 1987 | The Lighthorsemen | Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen |
| 1985 | The Holcroft Covenant | Johann von Tiebolt |
| 1984 | Under the Volcano | Hugh Firmin |
| 1984 | Observations Under the Volcano | Self |
| 1984 | Notes from Under the Volcano | Self |
| 1984 | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis |
| 1983 | Sparkling Cyanide | Tony Browne |
| 1982 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 1982 | Ivanhoe | Wilfred of Ivanhoe |
| 1981 | Mistress of Paradise | Buckley |
| 1980 | An Audience with Dame Edna Everage | |
| 1978 | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio |
| 1977 | The Country Wife | Horner |
| 1976 | French Without Tears | Alan Howard |
| 1976 | Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien | Marcos |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Jozef Gabcík |
| 1975 | The Adolescents | Jimmy |
| 1974 | Percy's Progress | Catchpole |
| 1973 | Take Me High | Hugo Flaxman |
| 1972 | A War of Children | |
| 1972 | A Day Out | Florence's Brother |
| 1968 | A Beast with Two Backs | Harry |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The English Game | Lord Kinnaird |
| 2016 | Bornebusch i tevefabriken | Guest |
| 2012 | The Syndicate | Lord Hazelwood |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Tommy |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | King George VI |
| 1992 | Jewels | William Whitfield |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Jonathan |
| 1989 | Nightmare Classics | Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde |
| 1985 | A.D. | Nero |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self |
| 1981 | Brideshead Revisited | Lord Sebastian Flyte |
| 1979 | Danger UXB | Lt. Brian Ash |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Mercutio |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Tony Selkirk |
| 1974 | The Pallisers | |
| 1974 | QB VII | Stephen Kelno |
| 1971 | Columbo | Elliott Blake |
| 1971 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Marquis Robert Stockbridge |
| 1971 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Marquis of Stockbridge |