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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-02-14 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Anton Lesser

Biography:

Known For

Acting

2025

Andor Season 2 | A Special Look as Lio Partagaz (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023

Better as Vernon Marley

2022

Making 1899 as Self
Art That Made Us as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
1899 as Mr. Franklin
Andor as Lio Partagaz

2021

From A Strange Land as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
Benediction as Stephen Tennant (Older)

2020

Gatecrash as Sid
Kindred as Dr. Richards
The Courier as Bertrand

2019

2018

Disobedience as Rav Krushka
On Chesil Beach as Reverend Woollett
Killing Eve as Robert

2017

The Exception as General Falkenberg

2016

Allied as Emmanuel Lombard
A United Kingdom as Prime Minister Attlee
The Crown as Harold Macmillan

2015

Dickensian as Fagin
Life In Squares as Dr. Hyslop
Wolf Hall as Thomas More

2014

2013

Atlantis as Kyros
Father Brown as Father Ignatius
Spies of Warsaw as Doctor Lapp
Endeavour as CS Reginald Bright
The Escape Artist as Richard Mayfield QC

2012

The Scapegoat as Father McReady
Ripper Street as Dr. Karl Crabbe
Secret State as Sir Michael Rix

2011

Flutter as Bruno
The Lady as Professor Finnis
The Hour as Clarence Fendley
Game of Thrones as Qyburn

2010

Five Daughters as Dr Nat Cary

2009

Garrow's Law as John Farmer

2008

Einstein and Eddington as Fritz Haber

2007

2006

Miss Potter as Harold Warne

2005

Class of '76 as Martin Gibson
Ahead of the Class as Graham Ranger
River Queen as Baine
Class of '76 as Martin Gibson

2004

London as Charles Dickens

2003

Otherworld as Teyrnon (voice)
Eroica as Sukowaty

2002

The Project as Stanley Hall
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
Spooks as Nicholas Ashworth

2001

Charlotte Gray as Renech
Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone
Uprising as Nathan Lensky
Waking the Dead as Professor Ray Levin
Messiah as Samuel Waite

2000

The Miracle Maker as Herod (voice)
Esther Kahn as Sean
Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone

1999

The Scarlet Pimpernel as Antoine Picard

1998

The Echo as Billy Blake
Invasion: Earth as Lt. Charles Terrell
Vanity Fair as Mr. Pitt Crawley

1997

Into the Blue as Dr. John Ockleton
FairyTale: A True Story as Wounded Corporal
Midsomer Murders as Eddie Darwin
Bodyguards as Dusan Mesic
Midsomer Murders as Rev. Wallace Stone

1996

The Moonstone as Ezra Jennings
Silent Witness as Marcus Gwilym
Moses as Eliav

1995

Moses as Eliav
Sharman as Galilee
Bugs as Patrick Marcel
The Politician's Wife as Mark Hollister

1994

Guinevere as Envoy

1992

A Touch of Frost as Dennis Prior

1991

1990

Traitors as Robert Cecil

1989

1988

Stanley as Stanley Spencer
Airbase as Vincenzo

1985

The Assam Garden as Mr. Sutton
Anna of the Five Towns as Willie Price

1984

Sakharov as Valery Chalidze

1983

1982

The Missionary as Young Man at Shoot
King Lear as Edgar

1981

The Cherry Orchard as Trofimov

1979

The Serpent Son as Orestes

1978

The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem

1974

NOVA as Voltaire

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Tick Tick Tick as Narrator
The Yellow Tie as Martin Steinke

Crew

2021

Doughnut as Thanks