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Anthony Andrews

Actor / Film Producer | * 01/12/1948 (76) | London, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor. He played Lord Sebastian Flyte in the ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA television awards, and was nominated for an Emmy. His other lead roles include Operation Daybreak (1975), Danger UXB (1979), Ivanhoe (1982) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), and he played UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010). ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Mystery

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Awards & Nominations for Anthony Andrews

British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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Movies with Anthony Andrews as Actor(37)

as Benjamin Jowett2019 The Professor and the Madman
as Stanley Baldwin2010 The King's Speech
as himself2005 Revisiting Brideshead
as Mr. Edward Murdstone2001 David Copperfield
as Robin1997 Mothertime
as Robert Mariell1995 Haunted
as Christopher Edwardes1992 The Law Lord
as Andrei Miller1991 Lost in Siberia
as Prof. James Moriarty1990 Hands of a Murderer
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde1989 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Prince of Wales / Edward VIII1988 The Woman He Loved
as McCormack1988 Hanna's War
as Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen1987 The Lighthorsemen
as Maj. Hanlon1987 The Second Victory
as Johnnie Aysgarth1987 Suspicion
as Johann von Tiebolt1985 The Holcroft Covenant
as Hugh Firmin1984 Under the Volcano
as John Loomis1984 Z for Zachariah
as Tony Browne1983 Sparkling Cyanide
as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Wilfred of Ivanhoe1982 Ivanhoe
as Buckley1981 Mistress of Paradise
as Mercutio1978 Romeo & Juliet
as Horner1977 The Country Wife
as Alan Howard1976 French Without Tears
as Jozef Gabcík1975 Operation: Daybreak
as Jimmy1975 The Adolescents
as Catchpole1974 Percy's Progress
as Hugo Flaxman1973 Take Me High
as Florence's Brother1972 A Day Out

TV Shows/Series with Anthony Andrews as Actor(20)

as Lord Kinnaird2020 The English Game
as Lord Hazelwood2012 The Syndicate
as King George VI2003 Cambridge Spies
as William Whitfield1992 Jewels
as himself1991 Pebble Mill
as Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde1989 Nightmare Classics
as Nero1985 A.D.
as himself1982 Wogan
as Lord Sebastian Flyte1981 Brideshead Revisited
as Lt. Brian Ash1979 Danger UXB
as himself1978 An Audience with...
as Tony Selkirk1977 The Love Boat
as Stephen Kelno1974 QB VII
as Elliott Blake1971 Columbo
as Marquis Robert Stockbridge1971 Upstairs, Downstairs
as Marquis of Stockbridge1971 Upstairs, Downstairs

Movies with Anthony Andrews as Crew(2)

Production/Producer1995 Haunted
Production/Producer1991 Lost in Siberia

Full Name: Anthony Andrews
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Monday, 01/12 1948 (January) in London, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 76 years + 77 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Royal Masonic School for Boys
Spouses (current/former): Georgina Simpson
Other names for Anthony Andrews (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews"
Anthony Andrews frequently works together with these people:
John P. Finnegan (8x, Actor)
Juliet Mills (7x, Actress)
Leslie Nielsen (6x, Actor)
Audra Lindley (6x, Actress)
John Hawkesworth (6x, Crew)
Shera Danese (6x, Actress)
Patrick McGoohan (5x, Actor)
Jessica Walter (5x, Actress)
Vito Scotti (5x, Actor)
David Hedison (5x, Actor)
Florence Henderson (5x, Actress)
Lewis Gilbert (4x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7368, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024