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Andreas Siegfried "Andrew" Sachs was a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and rose to fame in the 1970s for his portrayals of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers.
Birth Name
Andreas Siegfried Sachs
Born
Monday, 07 April 1930
Died
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Coronation Street: Compilations | Ramsay Clegg | 2020 |
| Breaking the Bank | Jenkins | 2016 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Mantel Clock | 2016 |
| Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Manuel | 2016 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Actor and Friend | 2014 |
| Jo Brand's Great Wall of Comedy | Self | 2013 |
| Spies of Warsaw | Herschenson | 2013 |
| Quartet | Bobby Swanson | 2012 |
| Tales of Television Centre | Manuel | 2012 |
| Run for Your Wife | 2012 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Coronation Street: Compilations | Ramsay Clegg | 2020 |
| Breaking the Bank | Jenkins | 2016 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Mantel Clock | 2016 |
| Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Manuel | 2016 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Actor and Friend | 2014 |
| Jo Brand's Great Wall of Comedy | Self | 2013 |
| Spies of Warsaw | Herschenson | 2013 |
| Quartet | Bobby Swanson | 2012 |
| Tales of Television Centre | Manuel | 2012 |
| Run for Your Wife | 2012 | |
| The Stars of the Street: 50 Years, 50 Classic Characters | Ramsay Clegg | 2010 |
| Going Postal | Groat | 2010 |
| Stars on the Street | Self | 2009 |
| The Bill Made Me Famous | Self | 2008 |
| All Star Mr & Mrs | Self | 2008 |
| Mr. Loveday's Little Outing | Mr. Loveday | 2006 |
| Screenwipe | Self | 2006 |
| Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David | Himself - Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator | 2006 |
| Fawlty Towers Revisited | Himself / Self - Host | 2005 |
| Egypt | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2005 |
| 80s | Manuel | 2005 |
| The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | Self | 2005 |
| The Funny Ladies of British Comedy | Self | 2004 |
| Looking for Victoria | Benjamin Disraeli | 2003 |
| Cheeky | TV Announcer | 2003 |
| Between Iraq and a Hard Place | Mullah Omar | 2003 |
| Gylne tider | Self | 2002 |
| Lads' Army | Himself (as A. Sachs) | 2002 |
| Nowhere in Africa | Mr. Rubens | 2001 |
| Single Voices | Arthur | 2000 |
| Doctors | Geoffrey Vickerstaff | 2000 |
| That Peter Kay Thing | Narrator | 2000 |
| Ace of Hearts | Peter Pryce | 1999 |
| Holby City | Joseph Wolpert | 1999 |
| Comedy Lab | Hitman | 1998 |
| Funny Women | Self | 1997 |
| What a Performance! | Self | 1997 |
| Einstein Revealed | Albert Einstein | 1996 |
| Big Bag | Narrator (segment "William's Wish Wellingtons") | 1996 |
| Taxandria | André / Superintendent | 1996 |
| Silent Witness | Josef Horowitz | 1996 |
| The Forgotten Toys | Chef / Old Man / Old Man (voice) | 1995 |
| Reputations | Self - Narrator | 1994 |
| Faust | All Voices (voice) / All Voices | 1994 |
| Eyewitness | Narrator / Narrator (UK Version) | 1994 |
| Ancient Mysteries | Narrator | 1994 |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Durdles | 1993 |
| The Mushroom Picker | Tadeus | 1993 |
| The Gingerbread Man | (voice) | 1992 |
| Cluedo | Self | 1990 |
| Asterix and the Big Fight | Ardeco | 1989 |
| Consuming Passions | Jason | 1988 |
| You Bet! | Self | 1988 |
| Woof! | Mr Peterson | 1989 |
| Casualty | Father Morgan / Mendel Lan | 1986 |
| There Comes a Time | Tony James | 1985 |
| The Brief | David Leyton | 1984 |
| An Audience with Kenneth Williams | Self | 1983 |
| Natural World | Self - Narrator | 1983 |
| Babble | Self | 1983 |
| Timewatch | Self - Narrator / Narrator / Dr. Eduard Bloch | 1982 |
| Dead Ernest | Ernest Springer | 1982 |
| Bergerac | Moise Davidson | 1981 |
| History of the World: Part I | Gerard - The French Revolution | 1981 |
| The Tempest | Trinculo | 1980 |
| Minder | Sidney | 1979 |
| Not the Nine O'Clock News | (credit only) | 1979 |
| Antiques Roadshow | Manuel | 1979 |
| Give Us a Clue | Self - Panellist / Self | 1979 |
| Monkey | Horse / Horse (voice) / Yu-Lung (season 2) | 1978 |
| 3-2-1 | Self - Guest Star | 1978 |
| Revenge of the Pink Panther | Hercule Poirot / Hospital Inmate | 1978 |
| What's Up Nurse! | Guido, Waiter | 1978 |
| Send in the Girls | Paul | 1978 |
| Are You Being Served? | Don Carlos Bernardo / Carlos | 1977 |
| House of Mortal Sin | Man in Church | 1976 |
| Fawlty Towers | Manuel | 1975 |
| Celebrity Squares | Self | 1975 |
| Frightmare | Barry Nichols | 1974 |
| Rising Damp | Snell | 1974 |
| Romance with a Double Bass | Musician Zhuchkov | 1974 |
| Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Walter Wagner | 1973 |
| Crown Court | Jeremy Nisbett | 1972 |
| Codename | Stein | 1970 |
| My Partner the Ghost | Commentator | 1969 |
| Nearest and Dearest | Doctor | 1968 |
| ITV Playhouse | Morris Harper / Nigel Fenn / Sergei Sergeich | 1967 |
| Callan | German Captain | 1967 |
| Buddenbrooks | Pastor Tiburtius | 1965 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator / Albert Einstein | 1964 |
| Espionage | German Sergeant | 1963 |
| We Joined the Navy | Short Changed US Seaman / Short-Changed US Seaman | 1962 |
| The Saint | Jacques | 1962 |
| Make Mine a Double | A. C. 2. Briggs / A.C. 2 Briggs | 1959 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
| Paper Orchid | Office Boy | 1949 |
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Schoolboy | 1947 |
| Hue and Cry | Schoolboy | 1947 |
