Anthony Andrews
Actor
Born January 12, 1948 in London, England, UK
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".
Filmography
The English Game
Lord Kinnaird
The Professor and the Madman
Benjamin Jowett
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
Guest
The Syndicate
Lord Hazelwood
The King's Speech
Stanley Baldwin
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Revisiting Brideshead
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
Tommy
Cambridge Spies
King George VI
David Copperfield
Edward Murdstone
David Copperfield
Edward Murdstone
Mothertime
Robin
Haunted
Robert Mariell
Jewels
William Whitfield
The Law Lord
Christopher Edwardes
Lost in Siberia
Andrei Miller
Hands of a Murderer
Prof. James Moriarty
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Nightmare Classics
Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
Tales from the Crypt
Jonathan
A Fine Romance
Michael Trent
Hanna's War
McCormack
The Woman He Loved
Prince of Wales / Edward VIII
Bluegrass
Michael Fitzgerald
The Lighthorsemen
Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
The Grand Knockout Tournament
Self
The Second Victory
Major Hanlon
Suspicion
Johnnie Aysgarth
The Holcroft Covenant
Johann von Tiebolt
A.D.
Nero
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
Under the Volcano
Hugh Firmin
Z for Zachariah
John Loomis
Sparkling Cyanide
Tony Browne
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
Wogan
Self
Ivanhoe
Wilfred of Ivanhoe
American Playhouse
John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
Brideshead Revisited
Sebastian Flyte
Mistress of Paradise
Buckley
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Danger UXB
Lieutenant Brian Ash
Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Mercutio
An Audience with...
Self
The Love Boat
Tony Selkirk
The Country Wife
Horner
The Duchess of Duke Street
Marcus Carrington
French Without Tears
Alan Howard
Operation: Daybreak
Jozef Gabcík
The Adolescents
Jimmy
David Copperfield
James Steerforth
Percy's Progress
Catchpole
QB VII
Stephen Kelno
The Pallisers
Earl of Silverbridge
Take Me High
Hugo Flaxman
A Day Out
Florence's Brother
A War of Children
Upstairs, Downstairs
Marquis Robert Stockbridge
Columbo
Elliott Blake
A Beast with Two Backs
Harry
BBC Play of the Month
Hon. Alan Howard