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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as Lord Kinnaird
2019
as Benjamin Jowett
2016
as Guest
2012
as Lord Hazelwood
2010
as Stanley Baldwin
2007
as Self
2005
as Self
2004
as Tommy
2003
as King George VI
2001
as Mr. Edward Murdstone
1997
as Robin
1995
as Robert Mariell
1992
as William Whitfield
1992
as Christopher Edwardes
1991
as Andrei Miller
1990
as Prof. James Moriarty
1989
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1989
as Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
1989
as Jonathan
1988
as McCormack
1988
as Prince of Wales / Edward VIII
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as Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
1987
as Luke Crossland
1987
as Self
1987
as Maj. Hanlon
1987
as Johnnie Aysgarth
1985
as Johann von Tiebolt
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as Nero
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as Self
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as Self
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as Hugh Firmin
1984
as John Loomis
1983
as Tony Browne
1982
as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982
as Wilfred of Ivanhoe
1981
as Lord Sebastian Flyte
1981
as Buckley
1980
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as Lt. Brian Ash
1978
as Mercutio
1978
as Mercutio
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as Tony Selkirk
1977
as Horner
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as Marcos
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as Alan Howard
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as Jozef Gabcík
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as Jimmy
1974
as Catchpole
1974
as Stephen Kelno
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as Hugo Flaxman
1972
as Florence's Brother
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as Marquis Robert Stockbridge
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as Marquis of Stockbridge
1971
as Elliott Blake
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as Harry