Anton Lesser
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Acting Credits
Biography
Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.
Known For
Filmography
ViQueens
2026
as Lars (voice)
The Yellow Tie
2025
as Martin Steinke
Beshert
2025
as Mr Pinsky
The World Will Tremble
2025
as Robbi Schulman
Better
2023
as Vernon Marley
Making 1899
2022
as Self
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
1899
2022
as Mr. Franklin
Andor
2022
as Major Partagaz
From A Strange Land
2021
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
Benediction
2021
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
Dalgliesh
2021
as Father John
Gatecrash
2020
as Sid
Kindred
2020
as Dr. Richards
The Courier
2020
as Bertrand
The Trial of Christine Keeler
2019
as Michael Eddowes
Disobedience
2018
as Rav Krushka
On Chesil Beach
2018
as Reverend Woollett
Killing Eve
2018
as Robert
A Discovery of Witches
2018
as Rabbi Loew
The Exception
2017
as General Falkenberg
Allied
2016
as Emmanuel Lombard
A United Kingdom
2016
as Prime Minister Attlee
The Crown
2016
as Harold Macmillan
Hooten & The Lady
2016
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Qyburn
Dickensian
2015
as Fagin
Life in Squares
2015
as Dr. Hyslop
Wolf Hall
2015
as Thomas More
Closer to the Moon
2014
as Holban
The Musketeers
2014
The Game
2014
as C
Atlantis
2013
as Kyros
Father Brown
2013
as Father Ignatius
Endeavour
2013
as CS Reginald Bright
The Escape Artist
2013
as Richard Mayfield QC
Spies of Warsaw
2013
as Doctor Lapp
The Scapegoat
2012
as Father McReady
Ripper Street
2012
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
Secret State
2012
as Sir Michael Rix
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Exeter
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
as Rudolf Olden
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Lord John Carteret
Flutter
2011
as Bruno
The Lady
2011
as Professor Finnis
The Hour
2011
as Clarence Fendley
Game of Thrones
2011
as Qyburn
Five Daughters
2010
as Dr Nat Cary
Garrow's Law
2009
as John Farmer
Einstein and Eddington
2008
as Fritz Haber
Little Dorrit
2008
as Mr. Merdle
The History of the World Backwards
2007
Miss Potter
2006
as Harold Warne
Vital Signs
2006
as Dr Lindsay
The Girl in the Café
2005
as George
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Voltaire
Dirty Filthy Love
2005
as Charles
Ahead of the Class
2005
as Graham Ranger
River Queen
2005
as Baine
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
New Tricks
2004
London
2004
as Charles Dickens
Otherworld
2003
as Teyrnon (voice)
Eroica
2003
as Sukowaty
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
as Batten
Imagining Argentina
2003
as General Guzmán
The Project
2002
as Stanley Hall
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
Spooks
2002
as Nicholas Ashworth
Foyle's War
2002
as Austin Carmichael
Dickens
2002
as Charles Dickens
Charlotte Gray
2001
as Renech
Lorna Doone
2001
as Counsellor Doone
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
Waking the Dead
2001
as Professor Ray Levin
Messiah
2001
as Samuel Waite
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001
as Milburn
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Stephen
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Vidas Merlinis
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
Swallow
2001
as Paul Valley
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Herod (voice)
Esther Kahn
2000
as Sean
Lorna Doone
2000
as Counsellor Doone
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Antoine Picard
The Echo
1998
as Billy Blake
Invasion: Earth
1998
as Lt. Charles Terrell
Vanity Fair
1998
as Mr Pitt Crawley
Into the Blue
1997
as Dr. John Ockleton
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Wounded Corporal
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Eddie Darwin
Bodyguards
1997
as Dusan Mesic
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Rev. Wallace Stone
The Moonstone
1996
as Ezra Jennings
Silent Witness
1996
as Marcus Gwilym
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Joseph (voice)
Moses
1996
as Eliav
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Paul Goodman
Sharman
1995
as Galilee
Bugs
1995
as Patrick Marcel
The Politician's Wife
1995
as Mark Hollister
Guinevere
1994
as Envoy
A Touch of Frost
1992
as Dennis Prior
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Leontes (voice)
Downtown Lagos
1992
as Mungo Dawson
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
as Levi
Traitors
1990
as Robert Cecil
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Karl/Stein
Stanley
1988
as Stanley Spencer
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
as Feste
Airbase
1988
as Vincenzo
The Play on One
1988
as Vincenzo
Monsignor Quixote
1985
as Robber
The Assam Garden
1985
as Mr. Sutton
Screen Two
1985
as Stanley Spencer
Anna of the Five Towns
1985
as Willie Price
Sakharov
1984
as Valery Chalidze
Freud
1984
as Wilhelm Fliess
Good and Bad at Games
1983
The Missionary
1982
as Young Man at Shoot
King Lear
1982
as Edgar
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Troilus
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Trofimov
The Serpent Son
1979
as Orestes
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
NOVA
1974
as Voltaire