Cast & creator
Anthony Andrews
Best known for Columbo, The Love Boat, American Playhouse
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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film credits
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television credits
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1965–2020 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (73)
Showing 73 of 73 credits
Columbo
Elliott Blake
1971
The Love Boat
Tony Selkirk
1977
American Playhouse
John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
1982
Wogan
Self
1982
BBC Play of the Month
Hon. Alan Howard
1965BBC Play of the Month
Charles Courtly
1965BBC Play of the Month
Horner
1965
Tales from the Crypt
Jonathan
1989
Agatha Christie's Marple
Tommy
2004
An Audience with...
Self
1978Pebble Mill
Self
1991The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Upstairs, Downstairs
Marquis Robert Stockbridge
1971Upstairs, Downstairs
Marquis of Stockbridge
1971
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Mercutio
1978
The King's Speech
Stanley Baldwin
2010
The Duchess of Duke Street
Marcus Carrington
1976
The Pallisers
Earl of Silverbridge
1974
Brideshead Revisited
Sebastian Flyte
1981The Sunday Drama
Harry
1977
Danger UXB
Lieutenant Brian Ash
1979
The Syndicate
Lord Hazelwood
2012
The Professor and the Madman
Benjamin Jowett
2019
A.D.
Nero
1985
David Copperfield
Edward Murdstone
2000
Cambridge Spies
King George VI
2003
The English Game
Lord Kinnaird
2020
A Fine Romance
Michael Trent
1989
Bluegrass
Michael Fitzgerald
1988
QB VII
Stephen Kelno
1974
Under the Volcano
Hugh Firmin
1984
Nightmare Classics
Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde
1989
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
Haunted
Robert Mariell
1995Haunted
Producer
1995
David Copperfield
James Steerforth
1974
The Fortunes of Nigel
Sir Nigel Olifaunt
1974
Jewels
William Whitfield
1992
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
1982
Bornebusch i tevefabriken
Guest
2016
Operation: Daybreak
Jozef Gabcík
1975
The Holcroft Covenant
Johann von Tiebolt
1985
Ivanhoe
Wilfred of Ivanhoe
1982
Sparkling Cyanide
Tony Browne
1983
The Woman He Loved
Prince of Wales / Edward VIII
1988
The Grand Knockout Tournament
Self
1987
The Lighthorsemen
Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
1987
Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio
1978
Hands of a Murderer
Prof. James Moriarty
1990
A War of Children
1972
Hanna's War
McCormack
1988
David Copperfield
Edward Murdstone
2001
Mothertime
Robin
1997
Revisiting Brideshead
Self
2005
Observations Under the Volcano
Self
1984
The Law Lord
Christopher Edwardes
1992
A Beast with Two Backs
Harry
1968
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980
French Without Tears
Alan Howard
1976
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1989
Mistress of Paradise
Buckley
1981
Percy's Progress
Catchpole
1974
The Country Wife
Horner
1977
The Second Victory
Major Hanlon
1987Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien
Marcos
1976
Notes from Under the Volcano
Self
1984
The Adolescents
Jimmy
1975
Suspicion
Johnnie Aysgarth
1987
Lost in Siberia
Andrei Miller
1991Lost in Siberia
Producer
1991
A Day Out
Florence's Brother
1972
Take Me High
Hugo Flaxman
1973
Z for Zachariah
John Loomis
1984