Anthony Andrews
Acting • Born 1948-01-12
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.
Filmography
65 credits
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie • 2007
Self
A Beast with Two Backs
Movie • 1968
Harry
Sparkling Cyanide
Movie • 1983
Tony Browne
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie • 1982
Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Holcroft Covenant
Movie • 1985
Johann von Tiebolt
Under the Volcano
Movie • 1984
Hugh Firmin
Ivanhoe
Movie • 1982
Wilfred of Ivanhoe
Haunted
Movie • 1995
Robert Mariell
Operation: Daybreak
Movie • 1975
Jozef Gabcík
Percy's Progress
Movie • 1974
Catchpole
David Copperfield
Movie • 2001
Edward Murdstone
Lost in Siberia
Movie • 1991
Andrei Miller
Hands of a Murderer
Movie • 1990
Prof. James Moriarty
Take Me High
Movie • 1973
Hugo Flaxman
A War of Children
Movie • 1972
Revisiting Brideshead
Movie • 2005
Self
The Adolescents
Movie • 1975
Jimmy
The Professor and the Madman
Movie • 2019
Benjamin Jowett
Observations Under the Volcano
Movie • 1984
Self
The Woman He Loved
Movie • 1988
Prince of Wales / Edward VIII
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Movie • 1980
The King's Speech
Movie • 2010
Stanley Baldwin
Notes from Under the Volcano
Movie • 1984
Self
Mothertime
Movie • 1997
Robin
A Day Out
Movie • 1972
Florence's Brother
The Country Wife
Movie • 1977
Horner
The Second Victory
Movie • 1987
Maj. Hanlon
Hanna's War
Movie • 1988
McCormack
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1989
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
The Grand Knockout Tournament
Movie • 1987
Self
The Law Lord
Movie • 1992
Christopher Edwardes
French Without Tears
Movie • 1976
Alan Howard
Z for Zachariah
Movie • 1984
John Loomis
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1978
Mercutio
Mistress of Paradise
Movie • 1981
Buckley
Suspicion
Movie • 1987
Johnnie Aysgarth
Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien
Movie • 1976
Marcos
The Lighthorsemen
Movie • 1987
Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
Columbo
TV • 1971
Elliott Blake
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Jonathan
Danger UXB
TV • 1979
Lieutenant Brian Ash
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
Nightmare Classics
TV • 1989
Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
The Syndicate
TV • 2012
Lord Hazelwood
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
TV • 2016
Guest
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Upstairs, Downstairs
TV • 1971
Marquis Robert Stockbridge
Upstairs, Downstairs
TV • 1971
Marquis of Stockbridge
Jewels
TV • 1992
William Whitfield
QB VII
TV • 1974
Stephen Kelno
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Cambridge Spies
TV • 2003
King George VI
A.D.
TV • 1985
Nero
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Tommy
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Tony Selkirk
The English Game
TV • 2020
Lord Kinnaird
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Hon. Alan Howard
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Charles Courtly
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Horner
David Copperfield
TV • 1974
James Steerforth
Brideshead Revisited
TV • 1981
Sebastian Flyte
The Pallisers
TV • 1974
Earl of Silverbridge
The Duchess of Duke Street
TV • 1976
Marcus Carrington
Bluegrass
TV • 1988
Michael Fitzgerald