Anton Lesser

Career timeline

1. 1952 · Born

   Born in Birmingham, England, UK

2. 1974 · Screen debut

   NOVA (TV)

3. 1997 · Breakthrough

   Midsomer Murders (TV)

4. 2025 · Latest release

   The Yellow Tie (Movie)

Career in numbers

3 1970s

5 1980s

18 1990s

24 2000s

31 2010s

8 2020s

• Drama81
• Crime20
• Mystery16
• Action & Adventure10
• Romance9
• History9

Highest-rated title Game of Thrones 2011 8.5 Most popular title Game of Thrones 2011 8.5

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Anton Lesser in our catalogue.

Stephen Davis

3 titles together

Alun Armstrong

3 titles together

Juliet Stevenson

3 titles together

Charles Dance

3 titles together

Anna Chancellor

3 titles together

Eva Birthistle

2 titles together

Clive Owen

2 titles together

Jesper Christensen

2 titles together

Mark Addy

2 titles together

Ruth Negga

2 titles together

1. 2025 The Yellow Tie as Martin Steinke 8.3 Movie
2. 2025 The World Will Tremble as Robbi Schulman 7.5 Movie
3. 2023 Better as Vernon Marley 6.0 TV
4. 2022 1899 as Mr. Franklin 7.5 TV
5. 2022 Andor as Major Partagaz 8.3 TV
6. 2021 Benediction as Stephen Tennant (Older) 6.1 Movie
7. 2021 Dalgliesh as Father John 6.7 TV
8. 2020 The Courier as Bertrand 7.0 Movie
9. 2019 The Trial of Christine Keeler as Michael Eddowes 6.7 TV
10. 2018 A Discovery of Witches as Rabbi Loew 7.8 TV
11. 2018 Disobedience as Rav Krushka 6.9 Movie
12. 2018 Killing Eve as Robert 7.9 TV
13. 2018 On Chesil Beach as Reverend Woollett 6.1 Movie
14. 2017 The Exception as General Falkenberg 6.9 Movie
15. 2016 A United Kingdom as Prime Minister Attlee 6.6 Movie
16. 2016 Allied as Emmanuel Lombard 6.8 Movie
17. 2016 The Crown as Harold Macmillan 8.2 TV
18. 2016 Hooten & The Lady 7.1 TV
19. 2015 Dickensian as Fagin 7.4 TV
20. 2015 Life in Squares as Dr. Hyslop TV
21. 2015 Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Qyburn 8.6 Movie
22. 2015 Wolf Hall as Thomas More 7.5 TV
23. 2014 The Game as C 7.3 TV
24. 2014 The Musketeers 7.2 TV
25. 2013 The Escape Artist as Richard Mayfield QC 7.1 TV
26. 2013 Atlantis as Kyros 6.4 TV
27. 2013 Endeavour as CS Reginald Bright 8.1 TV
28. 2013 Father Brown as Father Ignatius 7.7 TV
29. 2013 Spies of Warsaw as Doctor Lapp 6.6 TV
30. 2012 Ripper Street as Dr. Karl Crabbe 7.4 TV
31. 2012 Secret State as Sir Michael Rix 7.1 TV
32. 2012 The Scapegoat as Father McReady 6.4 Movie
33. 2012 The Hollow Crown as Exeter 7.4 TV
34. 2011 The Lady as Professor Finnis 6.8 Movie
35. 2011 Flutter as Bruno Movie
36. 2011 The Hour as Clarence Fendley 7.5 TV
37. 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as Lord John Carteret 6.6 Movie
38. 2011 Game of Thrones as Qyburn 8.5 TV
39. 2010 Five Daughters as Dr Nat Cary TV
40. 2009 Garrow's Law as John Farmer TV
41. 2008 Einstein and Eddington as Fritz Haber 6.8 Movie
42. 2008 Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle 7.9 TV
43. 2006 Miss Potter as Harold Warne 6.7 Movie
44. 2006 Vital Signs as Dr Lindsay TV
45. 2005 River Queen as Baine 5.7 Movie
46. 2005 The Girl in the Café as George 7.0 Movie
47. 2004 London as Charles Dickens TV
48. 2004 New Tricks 7.3 TV
49. 2003 Imagining Argentina as General Guzmán 5.7 Movie
50. 2003 Danielle Cable: Eyewitness as Batten Movie
51. 2002 Foyle's War as Austin Carmichael 7.9 TV
52. 2002 Spooks as Nicholas Ashworth 7.7 TV
53. 2002 Dickens as Charles Dickens TV
54. 2001 Charlotte Gray as Renech 6.1 Movie
55. 2001 Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Vidas Merlinis 6.8 TV
56. 2001 Uprising as Nathan Lensky 6.6 Movie
57. 2001 Uprising as Nathan Lensky TV
58. 2001 Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes as Milburn TV
59. 2001 Waking the Dead as Professor Ray Levin 7.2 TV
60. 2001 Messiah as Samuel Waite 7.4 TV
61. 2001 Perfect Strangers as Stephen TV
62. 2000 Lorna Doone as Counsellor Doone TV
63. 2000 The Miracle Maker as Herod (voice) 6.2 Movie
64. 1999 The Scarlet Pimpernel as Antoine Picard TV
65. 1998 The Echo as Billy Blake TV
66. 1998 Vanity Fair as Mr Pitt Crawley TV
67. 1998 Invasion: Earth as Lt. Charles Terrell TV
68. 1997 FairyTale: A True Story as Wounded Corporal 6.4 Movie
69. 1997 Bodyguards as Dusan Mesic TV
70. 1997 Midsomer Murders as Eddie Darwin 7.5 TV
71. 1996 Joseph as Joseph (Voice) Movie
72. 1996 Testament: The Bible in Animation as Joseph (voice) TV
73. 1996 Moses as Eliav TV
74. 1996 Dalziel and Pascoe as Paul Goodman 6.4 TV
75. 1996 Silent Witness as Marcus Gwilym 7.6 TV
76. 1995 The Politician's Wife as Mark Hollister TV
77. 1995 Sharman as Galilee TV
78. 1995 Bugs as Patrick Marcel TV
79. 1992 A Touch of Frost as Dennis Prior 7.6 TV
80. 1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Leontes (voice) TV
81. 1991 The Strauss Dynasty as Levi TV
82. 1988 Stanley as Stanley Spencer Movie
83. 1988 The Play on One as Vincenzo TV
84. 1985 Screen Two as Stanley Spencer TV
85. 1984 Freud as Wilhelm Fliess TV
86. 1982 King Lear as Edgar Movie
87. 1979 The Serpent Son as Orestes TV
88. 1978 The Mill on the Floss as Philip Wakem TV
89. 1974 NOVA as Voltaire 7.1 TV

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