British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

British Academy Television Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1955
Last awarded	2013
Official website	http://www.bafta.org/

1950s

1955 Paul Rogers — (Unknown)
1956 Peter Cushing — (Unknown)
1957 Michael Gough — (Unknown)
1958 Michael Hordern — (Unknown)
1959 Donald Pleasence — (Unknown)

1960s

1960 Patrick McGoohan — (Unknown)
1961 Lee Montague — (Unknown)
1962 Rupert Davies in Maigret
1963 Harry H. Corbett in Steptoe and Son
1964 Alan Badel — (Unknown)
1965 Patrick Wymark — (Unknown)
1966 Alan Badel — (Unknown)
1967 Warren Mitchell in Till Death Us Do Part
1968 Eric Porter in The Forsyte Saga
1969 Roy Dotrice in Misleading Cases

1970s

1970 Edward Woodward in Callan

John Alderton in Please Sir!
Colin Blakely in Son of Man, The Way We Live Now
Arthur Lowe in Dad's Army

1971 Keith Michell in The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Michael Bryant in The Roads to Freedom
Anthony Hopkins in The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens, Uncle Vanya, Hearts and Flowers, Danton
Michael Jayston in Charles Dickens, Mad Jack, Beethoven

1972 John Le Mesurier in Traitor

Alfred Burke in Public Eye
Frank Finlay in Casanova
Kenneth Haigh in Search for the Nile, Man at the Top

1973 Anthony Hopkins in War and Peace

Michael Bryant in The Duchess of Malfi, Colditz
Nicol Williamson in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

1974 Frank Finlay in The Adventures of Don Quixote; Candide; The Death of Adolf Hitler

Michael Crawford in Some Mothers Do Ave Em
Bernard Hepton in The Adventures of Don Quixote, Colditz
Laurence Olivier in Long Day's Journey Into Night

1975 Peter Barkworth in Crown Matrimonial

Michael Bryant in Mr Axelford's Angel
Gordon Jackson in Upstairs, Downstairs
Arthur Lowe in Microbes and Men, David Copperfield

1976 John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant

Alan Bates in Plaintiffs and Defendants, Two Sundays
Tony Britton in The Nearly Man
Timothy West in Edward the Seventh

1977 Derek Jacobi in I, Claudius

James Bolam in When the Boat Comes In
Tom Conti in The Glittering Prizes
Jack Shepherd in Bill Brand, Ready When You Are Mr McGill

1978 Peter Barkworth in Professional Foul

James Bolam in When the Boat Comes In
Derek Jacobi in Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Robert Powell in Jesus of Nazareth

1979 Edward Fox in Edward and Mrs Simpson

Tom Bell in Out
Ian Holm in Night School, Flayed, Mirage, The Lost Boys
Bob Hoskins in Pennies From Heaven

1980s

1980 Alec Guinness in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Robert Hardy in Speed King & All Creatures Great and Small
Leo McKern in Rumpole of the Bailey
Timothy West in Churchill and the Generals; Henry VIII; Crime and Punishment; Timothy West as Beecham

1981 Denholm Elliott in Gentle Folk; In Hiding; Blade on the Feather; The Stinker (Tales of the Unexpected)

Trevor Howard in The Shillingbury Blowers; Staying On
Leo McKern in Rumpole's Return
Sam Waterston in Oppenheimer

1982 Anthony Andrews in Brideshead Revisited

John Gielgud in Brideshead Revisited
Robert Hardy in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years; Fothergill
Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited

1983 Alec Guinness in Smiley's People

George Cole in Minder
Bernard Hill in Boys from the Blackstuff
Laurence Olivier in A Voyage Round My Father

1984 Alan Bates in An Englishman Abroad

Leo McKern in Rumpole of the Bailey; Riley - Ace of Spies
Ronald Pickup in Orwell on Jura; Waters of the Moon
Martin Sheen in Kennedy

1985 Tim Pigott-Smith in The Jewel In The Crown

George Cole in Minder
Charles Dance in The Jewel in the Crown
Art Malik in The Jewel in the Crown

1986 Bob Peck in Edge of Darkness

Joe Don Baker in Edge of Darkness
Alec Guinness in Monsignor Quioxte
Ben Kingsley in Silas Marner

1987 Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective

Colin Blakely in Drums Along Balmoral Drive
Denholm Elliott in Hotel du Lac
Paul McGann in The Monocled Mutineer
Patrick Malahide in The Singing Detective
David Threlfall in Paradise Postponed

1988 David Jason in Porterhouse Blue

Kenneth Branagh in Fortune's of War; The Lady's Not for Burning
Robbie Coltrane in Tutti Frutti
Ray McAnally in A Perfect Spy; Scout

1989 Ray McAnally in A Very British Coup

Alan Bennett in A Chip in the Sugar
Colin Firth in Tumbledown
Ian Holm in Game, Set and Match

1990s

1990 John Thaw in Inspector Morse

Joss Ackland in First and Last
John Gielgud in Summer's Lease
Alfred Molina in The Accountant

1991 Ian Richardson in House of Cards

Albert Finney in The Green Man
David Suchet in Agatha Christie's Poirot
John Thaw in Inspector Morse

1992 Robert Lindsay in G.B.H.

1993 John Thaw in Inspector Morse

Alan Bates in Unnatural Pursuits
Brian Cox in The Lost Language of Cranes'
Ian Richardson in An Ungentlemanly Act

1994 Robbie Coltrane in Cracker

1995 Robbie Coltrane in Cracker

Pete Postlethwaite in Martin Chuzzlewit
Paul Scofield in Martin Chuzzlewit
Tom Wilkinson in Martin Chuzzlewit

1996 Robbie Coltrane in Cracker

Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice
Robert Lindsay in Jake's Progress
Ian Richardson in The Final Cut
Benjamin Whitrow in Pride and Prejudice

1997 Nigel Hawthorne in The Fragile Heart

Christopher Eccleston in Our Friends in the North
Albert Finney in Cold Lazarus/Karaoke
Peter Vaughan in Our Friends in the North

1998 Simon Russell Beale in A Dance to the Music of Time

Robert Carlyle in Hamish MacBeth
Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code
Tom Wilkinson in Cold Enough for Snow

1999 Tom Courtenay in A Rather English Marriage

Robert Carlyle in Looking after Jo Jo
Albert Finney in A Rather English Marriage
Timothy Spall in Our Mutual Friend

2000s

2000 Michael Gambon in Wives and Daughters

2001 Michael Gambon in Longitude

Steven Mackintosh in Care
Pete Postlethwaite in The Sins
Ken Stott in The Vice

2002 Michael Gambon in Perfect Strangers

Alan Bates in Love in a Cold Climate
Timothy Spall in Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
David Suchet in The Way We Live Now

2003 Albert Finney in The Gathering Storm

Kenneth Branagh in Conspiracy
Kenneth Branagh in Shackleton
James Nesbitt in Bloody Sunday

2004 Bill Nighy in State of Play

Jim Broadbent in The Young Visiters
Christopher Eccleston in The Second Coming
David Morrissey in State of Play

2005 Rhys Ifans in Not Only But Always

Benedict Cumberbatch in Hawking
Mark Strong in The Long Firm
Michael Sheen in Dirty Filthy Love

2006 Mark Rylance in The Government Inspector

Bernard Hill in A Very Social Secretary
Denis Lawson in Bleak House
Rufus Sewell in ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew

2007 Jim Broadbent in Longford

Andy Serkis in Longford
Michael Sheen in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
John Simm in Life on Mars

2008 Andrew Garfield in Boy A

Tom Hardy in Stuart: A Life Backwards
Matthew MacFadyen in Secret Life
Antony Sher in Primo

2009 Stephen Dillane in The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

Jason Isaacs in The Curse of Steptoe
Ken Stott in Hancock & Joan
Ben Whishaw in Criminal Justice

2010s

2010 Kenneth Branagh in Wallander

Brendan Gleeson in Into the Storm
John Hurt in An Englishman in New York
David Oyelowo in Small Island

2011 Daniel Rigby in Eric and Ernie

2012 Dominic West in Appropriate Adult

Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock
Joseph Gilgun in This is England 88
John Simm in Exile

2013 Ben Whishaw in Richard II (The Hollow Crown)

Sean Bean in Accused (Tracie's Story)
Derek Jacobi in Last Tango in Halifax
Toby Jones in The Girl

2014 Sean Harris in Southcliffe

2015 Pending

Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock
Toby Jones in Marvellous
James Nesbitt in The Missing
Jason Watkins in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

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BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor

Paul Rogers (1955)
Peter Cushing (1956)
Michael Gough (1957)
Michael Hordern (1958)
Donald Pleasence (1959)
Patrick McGoohan (1960)
Lee Montague (1961)
Rupert Davies (1962)
Harry H. Corbett (1963)
Alan Badel (1964)
Patrick Wymark (1965)
Alan Badel (1966)
Warren Mitchell (1967)
Eric Porter (1968)
Roy Dotrice (1969)
Edward Woodward (1970)
Keith Michell (1971)
John Le Mesurier (1972)
Anthony Hopkins (1973)
Frank Finlay (1974)
Peter Barkworth (1975)
John Hurt (1976)
Derek Jacobi (1977)
Peter Barkworth (1978)
Edward Fox (1979)
Alec Guinness (1980)
Denholm Elliott (1981)
Anthony Andrews (1982)
Alec Guinness (1983)
Alan Bates (1984)
Tim Pigott-Smith (1985)
Bob Peck (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
David Jason (1988)
Ray McAnally (1989)
John Thaw (1990)
Ian Richardson (1991)
Robert Lindsay (1992)
John Thaw (1993)
Robbie Coltrane (1994)
Robbie Coltrane (1995)
Robbie Coltrane (1996)
Nigel Hawthorne (1997)
Simon Russell Beale (1998)
Tom Courtenay (1999)
Michael Gambon (2000)
Michael Gambon (2001)
Michael Gambon (2002)
Albert Finney (2003)
Bill Nighy (2004)
Rhys Ifans (2005)
Mark Rylance (2006)
Jim Broadbent (2007)
Andrew Garfield (2008)
Stephen Dillane (2009)
Kenneth Branagh (2010)
Daniel Rigby (2011)
Dominic West (2012)
Ben Whishaw (2013)
Sean Harris (2014)