Acting

Anton Lesser

Born 1952-02-14 · Birmingham, England, UK

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.

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ViQueens
as Lars (voice)
2026
The Yellow Tie
as Martin Steinke
2025
Beshert
as Mr Pinsky
2025
The World Will Tremble
as Robbi Schulman
2025
Better
as Vernon Marley
2023
1899
as Mr. Franklin
2022
Making 1899
as Self
2022
Andor
as Major Partagaz
2022
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
2022
Benediction
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
2021
Dalgliesh
as Father John
2021
From A Strange Land
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
2021
Doughnut
Thanks
2021
Kindred
as Dr. Richards
2020
Gatecrash
as Sid
2020
The Courier
as Bertrand
2020
The Trial of Christine Keeler
as Michael Eddowes
2019
A Discovery of Witches
as Rabbi Loew
2018
Disobedience
as Rav Krushka
2018
Killing Eve
as Robert
2018
On Chesil Beach
as Reverend Woollett
2018
The Exception
as General Falkenberg
2017
A United Kingdom
as Prime Minister Attlee
2016
Allied
as Emmanuel Lombard
2016
The Crown
as Harold Macmillan
2016
Hooten & The Lady
2016
Dickensian
as Fagin
2015
Life in Squares
as Dr. Hyslop
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Qyburn
2015
Wolf Hall
as Thomas More
2015
The Game
as C
2014
Closer to the Moon
as Holban
2014
The Musketeers
2014
The Escape Artist
as Richard Mayfield QC
2013
Atlantis
as Kyros
2013
Endeavour
as CS Reginald Bright
2013
Father Brown
as Father Ignatius
2013
Spies of Warsaw
as Doctor Lapp
2013
Ripper Street
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
2012
Secret State
as Sir Michael Rix
2012
The Scapegoat
as Father McReady
2012
The Hollow Crown
as Exeter
2012
The Lady
as Professor Finnis
2011
Flutter
as Bruno
2011
The Man who Crossed Hitler
as Rudolf Olden
2011
The Hour
as Clarence Fendley
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Lord John Carteret
2011
Game of Thrones
as Qyburn
2011
Five Daughters
as Dr Nat Cary
2010
Garrow's Law
as John Farmer
2009
Einstein and Eddington
as Fritz Haber
2008
Little Dorrit
as Mr. Merdle
2008
The History of the World Backwards
2007
Miss Potter
as Harold Warne
2006
Vital Signs
as Dr Lindsay
2006
Einstein's Big Idea
as Voltaire
2005
Class of '76
as Martin Gibson
2005
Class of '76
as Martin Gibson
2005
River Queen
as Baine
2005
Ahead of the Class
as Graham Ranger
2005
The Girl in the Café
as George
2005
Dirty Filthy Love
as Charles
2005
London
as Charles Dickens
2004
New Tricks
2004
Eroica
as Sukowaty
2003
Imagining Argentina
as General Guzmán
2003
Otherworld
as Teyrnon (voice)
2003
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as Batten
2003
The Project
as Stanley Hall
2002
Foyle's War
as Austin Carmichael
2002
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
2002
Spooks
as Nicholas Ashworth
2002
Dickens
as Charles Dickens
2002
Charlotte Gray
as Renech
2001
Swallow
as Paul Valley
2001
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Vidas Merlinis
2001
Uprising
as Nathan Lensky
2001
Uprising
as Nathan Lensky
2001
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
as Milburn
2001
Waking the Dead
as Professor Ray Levin
2001