Anton Lesser

Known for: Acting

Born: 1952-02-14 (age 74)

From: 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.

Filmography (126)

MOVIE
ViQueens
2026
as Lars (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.3
The Yellow Tie
2025
as Martin Steinke
MOVIE
Beshert
2025
as Mr Pinsky
MOVIE★ 7.5
The World Will Tremble
2025
as Robbi Schulman
TV★ 6.0
Better
2023
as Vernon Marley
TV★ 7.5
1899
2022
as Mr. Franklin
MOVIE★ 6.7
Making 1899
2022
as Self
TV★ 8.3
Andor
2022
as Lio Partagaz
TV★ 5.5
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Benediction
2021
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
TV★ 6.8
Dalgliesh
2021
as Father John
MOVIE
From A Strange Land
2021
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
MOVIE★ 5.5
Kindred
2020
as Dr. Richards
MOVIE★ 5.9
Gatecrash
2020
as Sid
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Courier
2020
as Bertrand
TV★ 6.7
The Trial of Christine Keeler
2019
as Michael Eddowes
TV★ 7.8
A Discovery of Witches
2018
as Rabbi Loew
MOVIE★ 6.9
Disobedience
2018
as Rav Krushka
TV★ 7.9
Killing Eve
2018
as Robert
MOVIE★ 6.1
On Chesil Beach
2018
as Reverend Woollett
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Exception
2017
as General Falkenberg
MOVIE★ 6.7
A United Kingdom
2016
as Prime Minister Attlee
MOVIE★ 6.8
Allied
2016
as Emmanuel Lombard
TV★ 8.2
The Crown
2016
as Harold Macmillan
TV★ 7.1
Hooten & The Lady
2016
TV★ 7.4
Dickensian
2015
as Fagin
TV★ 6.5
Life In Squares
2015
as Dr. Hyslop
MOVIE★ 8.6
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Qyburn
TV★ 7.5
Wolf Hall
2015
as Thomas More
TV★ 7.3
The Game
2014
as C
MOVIE★ 6.5
Closer to the Moon
2014
as Holban
TV★ 7.1
The Musketeers
2014
TV★ 7.1
The Escape Artist
2013
as Richard Mayfield QC
TV★ 6.4
Atlantis
2013
as Kyros
TV★ 8.1
Endeavour
2013
as CS Reginald Bright
TV★ 7.6
Father Brown
2013
as Father Ignatius
TV★ 6.6
Spies of Warsaw
2013
as Doctor Lapp
TV★ 7.4
Ripper Street
2012
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
TV★ 7.1
Secret State
2012
as Sir Michael Rix
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Scapegoat
2012
as Father McReady
TV★ 7.4
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Exeter
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Lady
2011
as Professor Finnis
MOVIE★ 6.0
Flutter
2011
as Bruno
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011
as Rudolf Olden
TV★ 7.5
The Hour
2011
as Clarence Fendley
MOVIE★ 6.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Lord John Carteret
TV★ 8.5
Game of Thrones
2011
as Qyburn
TV★ 6.4
Five Daughters
2010
as Dr Nat Cary
TV★ 7.4
Garrow's Law
2009
as John Farmer
MOVIE★ 6.8
Einstein and Eddington
2008
as Fritz Haber
TV★ 7.8
Little Dorrit
2008
as Mr. Merdle
TV
The History of the World Backwards
2007
MOVIE★ 6.6
Miss Potter
2006
as Harold Warne
TV★ 4.2
Vital Signs
2006
as Dr Lindsay
MOVIE★ 7.3
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Voltaire
MOVIE★ 5.7
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
TV★ 10.0
Class of '76
2005
as Martin Gibson
MOVIE★ 5.7
River Queen
2005
as Baine
MOVIE★ 7.4
Ahead of the Class
2005
as Graham Ranger
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Girl in the Café
2005
as George
MOVIE★ 6.6
Dirty Filthy Love
2005
as Charles
TV★ 10.0
London
2004
as Charles Dickens
TV★ 7.3
New Tricks
2004
MOVIE★ 7.5
Eroica
2003
as Sukowaty
MOVIE★ 5.8
Otherworld
2003
as Teyrnon (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.5
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003
as Batten
MOVIE
The Project
2002
as Stanley Hall
TV★ 7.9
Foyle's War
2002
as Austin Carmichael
MOVIE★ 6.0
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
TV★ 7.7
Spooks
2002
as Nicholas Ashworth
TV★ 7.0
Dickens
2002
as Charles Dickens
MOVIE★ 6.1
Charlotte Gray
2001
as Renech
TV★ 6.8
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Vidas Merlinis
MOVIE★ 6.5
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
TV
Uprising
2001
as Nathan Lensky
TV★ 7.9
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001
as Milburn
TV★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
as Professor Ray Levin
TV★ 7.4
Messiah
2001
as Samuel Waite
TV★ 6.6
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Stephen
MOVIE★ 5.8
Lorna Doone
2001
as Counsellor Doone
TV★ 7.7
Lorna Doone
2000
as Counsellor Doone
MOVIE★ 6.0
Esther Kahn
2000
as Sean
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Miracle Maker
2000
as Herod (voice)
TV★ 7.7
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
as Antoine Picard
TV★ 6.5
The Echo
1998
as Billy Blake
TV★ 7.6
Vanity Fair
1998
as Mr Pitt Crawley
TV★ 6.3
Invasion: Earth
1998
as Lt. Charles Terrell
MOVIE★ 6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Wounded Corporal
MOVIE★ 6.5
Into the Blue
1997
as Dr. John Ockleton
TV★ 8.0
Bodyguards
1997
as Dusan Mesic
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Eddie Darwin
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Moonstone
1996
as Ezra Jennings
TV★ 7.0
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Joseph (voice)
TV★ 6.9
Moses
1996
as Eliav
TV★ 7.6
Silent Witness
1996
as Marcus Gwilym
TV★ 6.5
The Politician's Wife
1995
as Mark Hollister
TV
Sharman
1995
as Galilee
TV★ 6.9
Bugs
1995
as Patrick Marcel
MOVIE★ 3.3
Guinevere
1994
as Envoy
TV★ 7.5
A Touch of Frost
1992
as Dennis Prior
TV★ 6.4
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Leontes (voice)
TV
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
as Levi
MOVIE★ 7.0
Traitors
1990
as Robert Cecil
MOVIE★ 5.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Karl/Stein
MOVIE★ 7.4
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
as Feste
MOVIE
Airbase
1988
as Vincenzo
MOVIE★ 7.0
Stanley
1988
as Stanley Spencer
TV★ 6.0
The Play on One
1988
as Vincenzo
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Assam Garden
1985
as Mr. Sutton
TV★ 9.0
Anna of the Five Towns
1985
as Willie Price
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Stanley Spencer
MOVIE★ 8.8
Monsignor Quixote
1985
as Robber
TV★ 5.0
Freud
1984
as Wilhelm Fliess
MOVIE★ 7.5
Sakharov
1984
as Valery Chalidze
MOVIE
Good and Bad at Games
1983
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Missionary
1982
as Young Man at Shoot
MOVIE★ 6.5
King Lear
1982
as Edgar
MOVIE★ 8.0
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Troilus
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Trofimov
TV★ 9.5
The Serpent Son
1979
as Orestes
TV★ 6.7
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
MOVIE
The Mill on the Floss
1978
as Philip Wakem
TV★ 7.0
NOVA
1974
as Voltaire
MOVIE
Santo Subito!
—
as Father Mattew
MOVIE
Tick Tick Tick
—
as Narrator
MOVIE
A Blue Butterfly
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