Anthony Andrews

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Anthony Andrews (pronounced /ˈæntəni ˈændruːz/; born 12 January 1948 in London) is a British actor, best known for his role in Brideshead Revisited playing the doomed Sebastian Flyte. He won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award for his performance. He was nominated for an Emmy, but lost to Mickey Rooney. In Brideshead he acted with fellow British actor Jeremy Irons. Seven years before the two had acted in The Pallisers. In the US Andrews is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Ivanhoe. He was the main star of the ITV television series Danger UXB in which Andrews plays a British bomb squad officer in World War II during the London Blitz. The series first aired in the United States in 1979 on Masterpiece Theatre.

Biography

Andrews' father was a musical arranger and conductor and his mother a dancer. He grew up in the London suburb of Finchley, attending a now-vanished private day primary school called Dalkeith. He was later awarded a scholarship to the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey, Hertfordshire as his father had been a Freemason and died when Andrews was only 5 years old.

He originally considered the Army as a career, but instead took a job as a stagehand at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 1971, he married Georgina Simpson, heiress to the Piccadilly stores empire, Simpsons of Piccadilly, having fallen in love with her from a photo he saw. They have three children; Joshua, Jessica and Amy-Samantha. Princess Anne is Amy-Samantha's godmother.

He played Professor Higgins in a stage version of My Fair Lady (2001) and Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White. [1]

He was the narrator for a 21st Anniversary BBC Radio 2 special broadcast of Cameron Mackintosh's musical, Les Misérables, sung by the (at the time) current West End cast at the Mermaid Theater in London on Sunday 8 October 2006.

He has been a guest at many royal weddings. He attended Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday party.

He recently said in an interview that "Remakes are often an excuse to associate young movie stars with a good title. They think it adds up to magic."

The television series Remington Steele was created for Anthony, but he turned down the part.

Television roles

• Prefect in Alma Mater (1971)
• Robert, Marquis of Stockbridge in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
• Reg Hogg in A War of Children (1972)
• Stephen Kelno in QB VII (1974)
• Lord Silverbridge in The Pallisers (1974)
• Marcus Carrington in "Lottie's Boy," an episode of The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
• Lieutenant Brian Ash in Danger UXB (1979)
• Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (1981)
• Wilfred of Ivanhoe in Ivanhoe (1982)
• Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
• Tony Browne in Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide (1983)
• John Loomis in Play for Today's Z for Zachariah (1984)
• Nero in A.D. (1985)
• Johnnie Aysgarth in Suspicion (1987)
• Edward VIII (The Prince of Wales) in The Woman He Loved (1988)
• Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Elliott Blake in Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)
• Christopher Edwards in The Law Lord (1991)
• William Whitfield in Danielle Steel's Jewels (1992)
• Luke Crossland in Heartstones (1996)
• Robin in Mothertime (1997)
• Mr. Edward Murdstone in David Copperfield (2000)
• Tommy Beresford in Marple: By the Pricking of my Thumbs 2006

Film roles

• Hugo Flaxman in Take Me High (1974)
• Catchpole in Percy's Progress (1974, also known as It's Not the Size That Counts)
• Josef Gabcik in Operation Daybreak (1976)
• Hugh Firmin in Under the Volcano (1984)
• Johann von Tiebolt in The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
• Richard Meinertzhagen in The Lighthorsemen (1987)
• McCormack in Hanna's War (1988)
• Andrei Miller in Lost in Siberia (1991)
• Robert Mariell in Haunted (1995)
• Professor Moriarty in "Hands of a Murderer" (1990)

Producing roles

• Lost in Siberia (1991)
• Haunted (1995)

Theatrical roles

• Count Fosco in The Woman in White
• Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
• Pastor Manders in Ghosts
• Seasons with The New Shakespeare Company and Chichester Festival Theatre
• Somerset Maugham's The Letter at the Wyndham Theatre, London [2007]

External links

• Anthony Andrews at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Anthony Andrews Website