Anthony Andrews

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Anthony Andrews (born January 12, 1948 in London) is a English actor, best known for his role in Brideshead Revisited playing the doomed Sebastian Flyte.

1 Biography
2 Television roles
3 Film roles
4 Producing roles
5 Theatrical roles
6 External links

[edit] Biography

Married to Georgina Simpson, heiress to the Picadilly stores empire, Simpsons of Piccadilly. He fell in love with her from a photo he saw. They married in 1971 and have three children; Joshua, Jessica and Amy-Samantha. Princess Anne is Amy-Samantha's godmother.

He recently (2001) played Professor Higgins in a stage version of My Fair Lady and Count Foscoe 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, October 8, 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."

[edit] Television roles

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)
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

[edit] 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)