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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-04-07 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Andrew Sachs

Biography:

Andrew Sachs was a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated and also as Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.

Known For

Acting

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass as Mantel Clock (voice)

2013

Spies of Warsaw as Herschenson

2012

Run For Your Wife as Clumsy Waiter
Quartet as Bobby Swanson

2010

Going Postal as Groat

2009

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self / Manuel

2008

2007

2006

Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2005

Egypt as Narrator

2004

2003

Doctor Who: Shada as Skagra (voice)

2001

Nowhere in Africa as Mr. Rubens

2000

Attachments as Murray Plaskow

1999

Jack of Hearts as Peter Pryce

1998

The Legend of the Lost Keys as George Gardener

1997

Eyewitness: Monster as Narrator (voice)
Einstein Revealed as Albert Einstein
The Forgotten Toys as Additional Voices (voice)

1996

Taxandria as André / Superintendent
Silent Witness as Josef Horowitz

1995

The Forgotten Toys as Chef / Old Man (voice)

1994

Eyewitness as Narrator

1993

1991

The Dream Machine as Self - Narrator (voice)

1990

Cluedo as Himself

1989

Under the Sun as Self - Narrator (voice)

1988

This Morning as Self

1987

1986

Casualty as Father Morgan
Casualty as Mendel Lan
Architecture at the Crossroads as Narrator - (Voice)

1985

1984

Big Deal as MC

1983

Natural World as Self - Narrator (voice)

1982

It's Your Move as Roadsweeper
Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)

1981

Bergerac as Moise Davidson

1980

The Tempest as Trinculo

1979

Minder as Sidney

1978

Revenge of the Pink Panther as Hospital Inmate
Monkey as Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung

1977

1976

James and the Giant Peach as Interviewer / 1st Naval Officer / Security Chief
House of Mortal Sin as Man in Church

1975

Fawlty Towers as Manuel

1974

Romance with a Double Bass as Musician Zhuchkov
Gorilla as Narrator
Rising Damp as Snell

1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Walter Wagner

1971

Quest for Love as TV Announcer (uncredited)

1970

Codename as Stein

1968

If Only the Trains Came as Sergei Sergeich
Number Ten as Nigel Fenn

1967

1963

We Joined the Navy as Short-Changed US Seaman

1962

The Saint as Jacques

1961

Nothing Barred as Convict

1960

Coronation Street as Ramsay Clegg

1959

1947

Hue and Cry as Schoolboy (uncredited)

Writing

1985