Cast & creator
Anton Lesser
Best known for Game of Thrones, Midsomer Murders, Midsomer Murders
Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.
Also known as: 安东·莱瑟, آنتون لسر, أنتون ليسير
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film credits
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television credits
132
1974–2026 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (133)
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Game of Thrones
Qyburn
2011
Midsomer Murders
Eddie Darwin
1997Midsomer Murders
Rev. Wallace Stone
1997
NOVA
Voltaire
1974
The Crown
Harold Macmillan
2016
Silent Witness
Marcus Gwilym
1996
Father Brown
Father Ignatius
2013
Screen Two
Stanley Spencer
1985
Spooks
Nicholas Ashworth
2002
Andor
Major Partagaz
2022
Waking the Dead
Professor Ray Levin
2001
Killing Eve
Robert
2018
New Tricks
2004
A Touch of Frost
Dennis Prior
1992
Endeavour
CS Reginald Bright
2013
Foyle's War
Austin Carmichael
2002
Dalziel and Pascoe
Paul Goodman
1996
Ripper Street
Dr. Karl Crabbe
2012
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Lord John Carteret
2011
A Discovery of Witches
Rabbi Loew
2018
The Musketeers
2014
Wolf Hall
Thomas More
2015
The Play on One
Vincenzo
1988
Dalgliesh
Father John
2021
The Hollow Crown
Exeter
2012
Atlantis
Kyros
2013
Art That Made Us
Self - Actor (Endeavour)
2022
Bugs
Patrick Marcel
1995
Allied
Emmanuel Lombard
2016
The Courier
Bertrand
2020
Garrow's Law
John Farmer
2009
1899
Mr. Franklin
2022
Vanity Fair
Mr Pitt Crawley
1998
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Leontes (voice)
1992
The Game
C
2014
Little Dorrit
Mr. Merdle
2008
Dickensian
Fagin
2015
The Hour
Clarence Fendley
2011
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Vidas Merlinis
2001
Messiah
Samuel Waite
2001
The Escape Artist
Richard Mayfield QC
2013
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Milburn
2001
Life in Squares
Dr. Hyslop
2015
Secret State
Sir Michael Rix
2012
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Joseph (voice)
1996
Miss Potter
Harold Warne
2006
The Trial of Christine Keeler
Michael Eddowes
2019
Disobedience
Rav Krushka
2018
Hooten & The Lady
2016
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Antoine Picard
1999
The Exception
General Falkenberg
2017
Five Daughters
Dr Nat Cary
2010
Moses
Eliav
1996
On Chesil Beach
Reverend Woollett
2018
The Strauss Dynasty
Levi
1991
Spies of Warsaw
Doctor Lapp
2013
Better
Vernon Marley
2023
Vital Signs
Dr Lindsay
2006
Freud
Wilhelm Fliess
1984Downtown Lagos
Mungo Dawson
1992
Uprising
Nathan Lensky
2001
Uprising
Nathan Lensky
2001
Invasion: Earth
Lt. Charles Terrell
1998
The Yellow Tie
Martin Steinke
2025
A United Kingdom
Prime Minister Attlee
2016
The Mill on the Floss
Philip Wakem
1978
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
2000
The World Will Tremble
Robbi Schulman
2025
Benediction
Stephen Tennant (Older)
2021
Perfect Strangers
Stephen
2001
The Lady
Professor Finnis
2011
Imagining Argentina
General Guzmán
2003
Sharman
Galilee
1995
Swallow
Paul Valley
2001
The Miracle Maker
Herod (voice)
2000London
Charles Dickens
2004
FairyTale: A True Story
Wounded Corporal
1997
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Qyburn
2015
Dickens
Charles Dickens
2002
Anna of the Five Towns
Willie Price
1985
Einstein and Eddington
Fritz Haber
2008
Making 1899
Self
2022
The Politician's Wife
Mark Hollister
1995
The History of the World Backwards
2007
Bodyguards
Dusan Mesic
1997
ViQueens
Lars (voice)
2026
Charlotte Gray
Renech
2001
Guinevere
Envoy
1994
The Serpent Son
Orestes
1979
The Girl in the Café
George
2005
Einstein's Big Idea
Voltaire
2005
The Mill on the Floss
Philip Wakem
1978
Class of '76
Martin Gibson
2005
The Echo
Billy Blake
1998
River Queen
Baine
2005
Closer to the Moon
Holban
2014
The Scapegoat
Father McReady
2012
Monsignor Quixote
Robber
1985
Gatecrash
Sid
2020
Beshert
Mr Pinsky
2025Santo Subito!
Father Mattew
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Feste
1988
Dirty Filthy Love
Charles
2005
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Karl/Stein
1989
The Missionary
Young Man at Shoot
1982
From A Strange Land
Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
2021
King Lear
Edgar
1982
The Winter's Tale
Leontes (voice)
1994
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
2002
Kindred
Dr. Richards
2020
Ahead of the Class
Graham Ranger
2005
The Assam Garden
Mr. Sutton
1985
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
2001
Esther Kahn
Sean
2000
The Man who Crossed Hitler
Rudolf Olden
2011
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
1981
Troilus & Cressida
Troilus
1981
Into the Blue
Dr. John Ockleton
1997
Sakharov
Valery Chalidze
1984
Eroica
Sukowaty
2003
Airbase
Vincenzo
1988
The Moonstone
Ezra Jennings
1996
Otherworld
Teyrnon (voice)
2003Good and Bad at Games
1983
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Batten
2003
Tick Tick Tick
Narrator
Traitors
Robert Cecil
1990
Flutter
Bruno
2011
Class of '76
Martin Gibson
2005A Blue Butterfly
Stanley
Stanley Spencer
1988The Project
Stanley Hall
2002
Doughnut
Thanks
2021