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Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews

Acting

Born: 1948 London, England, UK 16 Global Credits 🔥 1 Popularity
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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.

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Full Credits

Show / Title Year Credit / Role
The Syndicate 2012 Lord Hazelwood
The Alan Titchmarsh Show 2007 Self
Agatha Christie's Marple 2004 Tommy
Cambridge Spies 2003 King George VI
David Copperfield 2000 Edward Murdstone
Pebble Mill 1991 Self
Nightmare Classics 1989 Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
Tales from the Crypt 1989 Jonathan
Wogan 1982 Self
American Playhouse 1982 John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
The BBC Television Shakespeare 1978 Mercutio
An Audience with... 1978 Self
The Love Boat 1977 Tony Selkirk
Upstairs, Downstairs 1971 Marquis of Stockbridge
Columbo 1971 Elliott Blake
BBC Play of the Month 1965 Horner