Biography
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, incl…
Movies & TV Shows
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The King's Speech (2010) — Stanley Baldwin
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The Professor and the Madman (2019) — Benjamin Jowett
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Tales from the Crypt (1989) — Jonathan
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Columbo (1971) — Elliott Blake
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The English Game (2020) — Lord Kinnaird
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The Love Boat (1977) — Tony Selkirk
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Haunted (1995) — Robert Mariell
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) — Tommy
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Under the Volcano (1984) — Hugh Firmin
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The Holcroft Covenant (1985) — Johann von Tiebolt
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Brideshead Revisited (1981) — Sebastian Flyte
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Ivanhoe (1982) — Wilfred of Ivanhoe
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) — Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Operation: Daybreak (1975) — Jozef Gabcík
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The Lighthorsemen (1987) — Maj. Richard Meinertzhagen
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) — Marquis Robert Stockbridge
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The Syndicate (2012) — Lord Hazelwood
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David Copperfield (2001) — Edward Murdstone
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Cambridge Spies (2003) — King George VI
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Lost in Siberia (1991) — Andrei Miller
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The Duchess of Duke Street (1976) — Marcus Carrington
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Sparkling Cyanide (1983) — Tony Browne
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Percy's Progress (1974) — Catchpole
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Hands of a Murderer (1990) — Prof. James Moriarty
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A.D. (1985) — Nero
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Take Me High (1973) — Hugo Flaxman
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The Adolescents (1975) — Jimmy
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Z for Zachariah (1984) — John Loomis
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Danger UXB (1979) — Lieutenant Brian Ash
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BBC Play of the Month (1965) — Hon. Alan Howard
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American Playhouse (1982) — John D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
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Romeo and Juliet (1978) — Mercutio
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Jewels (1992) — William Whitfield
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QB VII (1974) — Stephen Kelno
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Wogan (1982) — Self
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A Day Out (1972) — Florence's Brother
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The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) — Mercutio
- Pebble Mill (1991) — Self
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David Copperfield (1974) — James Steerforth
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The Pallisers (1974) — Earl of Silverbridge