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Anton Lesser is an English actor. He is particularly well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, as Thomas More in Wolf Hall, as Harold Macmillan in The Crown, and as Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour.
Born
Thursday, 14 February 1952
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Morse and the Last Endeavour | Self | 2023 |
| Better | Vernon Marley | 2023 |
| Making 1899 | Self | 2022 |
| Andor | Major Partagaz | 2022 |
| 1899 | Henry Singleton | 2022 |
| Benediction | Stephen Tennant (Older) | 2021 |
| Kindred | Dr. Richards | 2020 |
| Gatecrash | Sid | 2020 |
| The Sandman | Doctor John Hathaway | 2020 |
| The Courier | Bertrand | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Morse and the Last Endeavour | Self | 2023 |
| Better | Vernon Marley | 2023 |
| Making 1899 | Self | 2022 |
| Andor | Major Partagaz | 2022 |
| 1899 | Henry Singleton | 2022 |
| Benediction | Stephen Tennant (Older) | 2021 |
| Kindred | Dr. Richards | 2020 |
| Gatecrash | Sid | 2020 |
| The Sandman | Doctor John Hathaway | 2020 |
| The Courier | Bertrand | 2020 |
| The Trial of Christine Keeler | Michael Eddowes | 2019 |
| A Discovery of Witches | Rabbi Loew | 2018 |
| On Chesil Beach | Reverend Woollett | 2018 |
| Killing Eve | Robert | 2018 |
| Disobedience | Rav Krushka | 2017 |
| Will | Walsingham | 2017 |
| The Exception | General Falkenberg | 2017 |
| A United Kingdom | Prime Minister Attlee | 2016 |
| Allied | Emmanuel Lombard | 2016 |
| The Crown | Harold MacMillan | 2016 |
| Hooten & the Lady | Hercules | 2016 |
| Dickensian | Fagin | 2015 |
| Wolf Hall | Thomas More | 2015 |
| Life in Squares | Dr. Hyslop | 2015 |
| The Game | C | 2014 |
| The Musketeers | Émile De Mauvoisin | 2014 |
| Closer to the Moon | Holban | 2013 |
| The Escape Artist | Richard Mayfield QC / Richard Mayfield, QC | 2013 |
| Atlantis | Kyros | 2013 |
| Father Brown | Father Ignatius | 2013 |
| Spies of Warsaw | Doctor Lapp | 2013 |
| Ripper Street | Dr. Karl Crabbe | 2012 |
| Secret State | Sir Michael Rix | 2012 |
| The Scapegoat | Father McReady | 2012 |
| The Hollow Crown | Exeter | 2012 |
| Endeavour | Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright / CS Reginald Bright / ACC Reginald Bright | 2012 |
| The Lady | Professor Finnis | 2011 |
| Flutter | Bruno | 2011 |
| The Man Who Crossed Hitler | Rudolf Olden | 2011 |
| The Hour | Clarence Fendley | 2011 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Lord John Carteret | 2011 |
| Game of Thrones | Qyburn | 2011 |
| Mad Dogs | Alex | 2011 |
| Five Daughters | Dr. Nat Cary | 2010 |
| Garrow's Law | John Farmer | 2009 |
| Casualty 1909 | Dr. Henry Head | 2009 |
| Einstein and Eddington | Fritz Haber | 2008 |
| Little Dorrit | Mr. Merdle | 2008 |
| Messiah: The Rapture | Samuel Waite | 2008 |
| The Palace | Archbishop of Canterbury | 2008 |
| Primeval | Gideon | 2007 |
| Miss Potter | Harold Warne | 2006 |
| Vital Signs | Dr. Lindsay | 2006 |
| Class of '76 | Martin Gibson | 2005 |
| River Queen | Baine | 2005 |
| Einstein's Big Idea | Voltaire | 2005 |
| The Girl in the Café | George | 2005 |
| Ahead of the Class | Graham Ranger | 2005 |
| Dirty Filthy Love | Charles | 2004 |
| Peter Ackroyd's London | Charles Dickens / Charles Dickens - Novelist | 2004 |
| Imagining Argentina | General Guzmán | 2003 |
| Otherworld | Teyrnon / Teyrnon (voice) | 2003 |
| Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | Batten | 2003 |
| New Tricks | Pete Mackintyre | 2003 |
| Eroica | Sukowaty | 2003 |
| Foyle's War | Austin Carmichael | 2002 |
| MI-5 | Nicholas Ashworth | 2002 |
| Charlotte Gray | Renech | 2001 |
| Swallow | Paul Valley | 2001 |
| Uprising | Nathan Lensky | 2001 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Vidas Merlinis - Research Scientist | 2001 |
| Animated Tales of the World | The Flower of Fern | 2001 |
| Lorna Doone | Counsellor Doone | 2000 |
| Esther Kahn | Sean | 2000 |
| Waking the Dead | Professor Ray Levin | 2000 |
| Safe as Houses | Mr. Dunn | 2000 |
| The Miracle Maker | Herod | 2000 |
| Pure Wickedness | Dr. Andrew Ward | 1999 |
| Trial by Fire | Brian Redwood | 1999 |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Antoine Picard | 1999 |
| Holby City | Sol Caplin | 1999 |
| The Echo | Billy Blake | 1998 |
| Vanity Fair | Mr. Pitt Crawley | 1998 |
| Invasion Earth | Lt. Charles Terrell | 1998 |
| FairyTale: A True Story | Wounded Corporal | 1997 |
| Into the Blue | Dr. John Ockleton | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Eddie Darwin / Reverend Wallace Stone | 1997 |
| The Moonstone | Ezra Jennings | 1996 |
| Sharman | Galilee | 1996 |
| Testament: The Bible in Animation | Joseph | 1996 |
| Bodyguards | Dusan Mesic | 1996 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Paul Goodman | 1996 |
| Silent Witness | Marcus Gwilym | 1996 |
| The Politician's Wife | Mark Hollister | 1995 |
| Bugs | Patrick Marcel | 1995 |
| Guinevere | Envoy | 1994 |
| A Touch of Frost | Dennis Prior | 1992 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Leontes | 1992 |
| Strauss Dynasty | Levi | 1991 |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Karl | 1989 |
| Poirot | Inspector Kelsey | 1989 |
| Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Feste | 1988 |
| The Play on One | Vincenzo | 1988 |
| London Embassy | Robert Bronhouse | 1987 |
| Perfect Strangers | 1986 | |
| The Assam Garden | Mr. Sutton | 1985 |
| Anna of the Five Towns | Willie Price | 1985 |
| Screen Two | Stanley Spencer | 1985 |
| Freud | Wilhelm Fliess | 1984 |
| Sakharov | Valery Chalidze | 1984 |
| Good and Bad at Games | Cox | 1983 |
| The Missionary | Young Man / Young Man at Shoot | 1982 |
| Troilus & Cressida | Troilus | 1981 |
| The Mill on the Floss | Philip Wakem | 1978 |
| Nova | Voltaire | 1974 |
| Crown Court | John Peat | 1972 |
| Great Performances | Robber | 1971 |
