Acting · Birmingham, England, UK · Born February 14, 1952
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.
MovieViQueens
2026
as Lars (voice)
MovieThe Yellow Tie
2025
as Martin Steinke
MovieBeshert
2025
as Mr Pinsky
MovieThe World Will Tremble
2025
as Robbi Schulman
TVBetter
2023
as Vernon Marley
TV1899
2022
as Mr. Franklin
MovieMaking 1899
2022
as Self
TVAndor
2022
as Lio Partagaz
TVArt That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
MovieBenediction
2021
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
TVDalgliesh
2021
as Father John
MovieFrom A Strange Land
2021
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
MovieKindred
2020
as Dr. Richards
MovieGatecrash
2020
as Sid
MovieThe Courier
2020
as Bertrand
TVThe Trial of Christine Keeler
2019
as Michael Eddowes
TVA Discovery of Witches
2018
as Rabbi Loew
MovieDisobedience
2018
as Rav Krushka
TVKilling Eve
2018
as Robert
MovieOn Chesil Beach
2018
as Reverend Woollett
MovieThe Exception
2017
as General Falkenberg
MovieA United Kingdom
2016
as Prime Minister Attlee
MovieAllied
2016
as Emmanuel Lombard
TVThe Crown
2016
as Harold Macmillan
TVHooten & The Lady
2016
TVDickensian
2015
as Fagin
TVLife In Squares
2015
as Dr. Hyslop
MovieGame of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Qyburn
TVWolf Hall
2015
as Thomas More
TVThe Game
2014
as C
MovieCloser to the Moon
2014
as Holban
TVThe Musketeers
2014
TVThe Escape Artist
2013
as Richard Mayfield QC
TVAtlantis
2013
as Kyros
TVEndeavour
2013
as CS Reginald Bright
TVFather Brown
2013
as Father Ignatius
TVSpies of Warsaw
2013
as Doctor Lapp
TVRipper Street
2012
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
TVSecret State
2012
as Sir Michael Rix
MovieThe Scapegoat
2012
as Father McReady
TVThe Hollow Crown
2012
as Exeter
MovieThe Lady
2011
as Professor Finnis
MovieFlutter
2011
as Bruno
MovieThe Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
as Rudolf Olden
TVThe Hour
2011
as Clarence Fendley
MoviePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Lord John Carteret
TVGame of Thrones
2011
as Qyburn
TVFive Daughters
2010
as Dr Nat Cary
TVGarrow's Law
2009
as John Farmer
MovieEinstein and Eddington
2008
as Fritz Haber
TVLittle Dorrit
2008
as Mr. Merdle
TVThe History of the World Backwards
2007
MovieMiss Potter
2006
as Harold Warne
TVVital Signs
2006
as Dr Lindsay
MovieEinstein's Big Idea
2005
as Voltaire
MovieClass of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
TVClass of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
MovieRiver Queen
2005
as Baine
MovieAhead of the Class
2005
as Graham Ranger
MovieThe Girl in the Café
2005
as George
MovieDirty Filthy Love
2005
as Charles
London
2004
as Charles Dickens
TVNew Tricks
2004
MovieEroica
2003
as Sukowaty
MovieOtherworld
2003
as Teyrnon (voice)
MovieDanielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
as Batten
The Project
2002
as Stanley Hall
TVFoyle's War
2002
as Austin Carmichael
MovieSir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
TVSpooks
2002
as Nicholas Ashworth
TVDickens
2002
as Charles Dickens
MovieCharlotte Gray
2001
as Renech
TVJack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Vidas Merlinis
MovieUprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
TVUprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
TVMurder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001
as Milburn
TVWaking the Dead
2001
as Professor Ray Levin
TVMessiah
2001
as Samuel Waite
TVPerfect Strangers
2001
as Stephen
MovieLorna Doone
2001
as Counsellor Doone
TVLorna Doone
2000
as Counsellor Doone
MovieEsther Kahn
2000
as Sean
MovieThe Miracle Maker
2000
as Herod (voice)
TVThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Antoine Picard
TVThe Echo
1998
as Billy Blake
TVVanity Fair
1998
as Mr Pitt Crawley
TVInvasion: Earth
1998
as Lt. Charles Terrell
MovieFairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Wounded Corporal
MovieInto the Blue
1997
as Dr. John Ockleton
TVBodyguards
1997
as Dusan Mesic
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Eddie Darwin
MovieThe Moonstone
1996
as Ezra Jennings
TVTestament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Joseph (voice)
TVMoses
1996
as Eliav
TVSilent Witness
1996
as Marcus Gwilym
TVThe Politician's Wife
1995
as Mark Hollister
TVSharman
1995
as Galilee
TVBugs
1995
as Patrick Marcel
MovieGuinevere
1994
as Envoy
TVA Touch of Frost
1992
as Dennis Prior
TVShakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Leontes (voice)
TVThe Strauss Dynasty
1991
as Levi
MovieTraitors
1990
as Robert Cecil
MovieMurderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Karl/Stein
MovieTwelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
as Feste
MovieAirbase
1988
as Vincenzo
MovieStanley
1988
as Stanley Spencer
TVThe Play on One
1988
as Vincenzo
MovieThe Assam Garden
1985
as Mr. Sutton
TVAnna of the Five Towns
1985
as Willie Price
TVScreen Two
1985
as Stanley Spencer
MovieMonsignor Quixote
1985
as Robber
TVFreud
1984
as Wilhelm Fliess
MovieSakharov
1984
as Valery Chalidze
Good and Bad at Games
1983
MovieThe Missionary
1982
as Young Man at Shoot
MovieKing Lear
1982
as Edgar
MovieTroilus & Cressida
1981
as Troilus
MovieThe Cherry Orchard
1981
as Trofimov
TVThe Serpent Son
1979
as Orestes
TVThe Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
MovieThe Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
TVNOVA
1974
as Voltaire
MovieTick Tick Tick
as Narrator
Santo Subito!
as Father Mattew
A Blue Butterfly
