Anton Lesser: movies and TV shows
Anton Lesser has 128 credits in the archive: 62 films and 66 TV series, from 1974 to 2026. Highest rated: Game of Thrones (8.5/10).
Career timeline
1974 – 2026 · busiest year: 2001 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ViQueens | Lars (voice) | Film | — | 74 |
| 2025 | The Yellow Tie | Martin Steinke | Film | 8.3 | 73 |
| 2025 | The World Will Tremble | Robbi Schulman | Film | 7.5 | 73 |
| 2025 | Beshert | Mr Pinsky | Film | — | 73 |
| 2023 | Better | Vernon Marley | TV | 6.0 | 71 |
| 2022 | Andor | Lio Partagaz | TV | 8.3 | 70 |
| 2022 | 1899 | Mr. Franklin | TV | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2022 | Art That Made Us | Self - Actor (Endeavour) | TV | 5.5 | 70 |
| 2022 | Making 1899 | Self | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2021 | Dalgliesh | Father John | TV | 6.7 | 69 |
| 2021 | Benediction | Stephen Tennant (Older) | Film | 6.2 | 69 |
| 2021 | From A Strange Land | Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel | Film | — | 69 |
| 2021 | Doughnut | Film | 7.2 | 69 | |
| 2020 | The Courier | Bertrand | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2020 | Gatecrash | Sid | Film | 5.9 | 68 |
| 2020 | Kindred | Dr. Richards | Film | 5.5 | 68 |
| 2019 | The Trial of Christine Keeler | Michael Eddowes | TV | 6.7 | 67 |
| 2018 | Killing Eve | Robert | TV | 7.9 | 66 |
| 2018 | A Discovery of Witches | Rabbi Loew | TV | 7.8 | 66 |
| 2018 | Disobedience | Rav Krushka | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 2018 | On Chesil Beach | Reverend Woollett | Film | 6.1 | 66 |
| 2017 | The Exception | General Falkenberg | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 2016 | The Crown | Harold Macmillan | TV | 8.2 | 64 |
| 2016 | Allied | Emmanuel Lombard | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 2016 | Hooten & The Lady | TV | 7.1 | 64 | |
| 2016 | A United Kingdom | Prime Minister Attlee | Film | 6.7 | 64 |
| 2015 | Dickensian | Fagin | TV | 7.4 | 63 |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Thomas More | TV | 7.5 | 63 |
| 2015 | Life In Squares | Dr. Hyslop | TV | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience | Qyburn | Film | 8.6 | 63 |
| 2014 | The Musketeers | TV | 7.1 | 62 | |
| 2014 | The Game | C | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2014 | Closer to the Moon | Holban | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Father Ignatius | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2013 | Endeavour | CS Reginald Bright | TV | 8.1 | 61 |
| 2013 | Atlantis | Kyros | TV | 6.4 | 61 |
| 2013 | Spies of Warsaw | Doctor Lapp | TV | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2013 | The Escape Artist | Richard Mayfield QC | TV | 7.1 | 61 |
| 2012 | Ripper Street | Dr. Karl Crabbe | TV | 7.4 | 60 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Exeter | TV | 7.4 | 60 |
| 2012 | Secret State | Sir Michael Rix | TV | 7.1 | 60 |
| 2012 | The Scapegoat | Father McReady | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Qyburn | TV | 8.5 | 59 |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Lord John Carteret | Film | 6.6 | 59 |
| 2011 | The Hour | Clarence Fendley | TV | 7.4 | 59 |
| 2011 | The Lady | Professor Finnis | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2011 | The Man who Crossed Hitler | Rudolf Olden | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 2011 | Flutter | Bruno | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 2010 | Five Daughters | Dr Nat Cary | TV | 6.4 | 58 |
| 2009 | Garrow's Law | John Farmer | TV | 7.4 | 57 |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit | Mr. Merdle | TV | 7.8 | 56 |
| 2008 | Einstein and Eddington | Fritz Haber | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 2007 | The History of the World Backwards | TV | — | 55 | |
| 2006 | Miss Potter | Harold Warne | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 2006 | Vital Signs | Dr Lindsay | TV | 4.2 | 54 |
| 2005 | Dirty Filthy Love | Charles | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 2005 | Einstein's Big Idea | Voltaire | Film | 7.3 | 53 |
| 2005 | River Queen | Baine | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café | George | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2005 | Class of '76 | Martin Gibson | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 2005 | Class of '76 | Martin Gibson | TV | 10.0 | 53 |
| 2005 | Ahead of the Class | Graham Ranger | Film | 7.4 | 53 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | TV | 7.3 | 52 | |
| 2004 | London | Charles Dickens | TV | 10.0 | 52 |
| 2003 | Danielle Cable: Eyewitness | Batten | Film | 8.5 | 51 |
| 2003 | Otherworld | Teyrnon (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 2003 | Eroica | Sukowaty | Film | 7.5 | 51 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Nicholas Ashworth | TV | 7.7 | 50 |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Austin Carmichael | TV | 7.9 | 50 |
| 2002 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Bertilak / Green Knight (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 2002 | The Project | Stanley Hall | Film | — | 50 |
| 2002 | Dickens | Charles Dickens | TV | 7.0 | 50 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Professor Ray Levin | TV | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2001 | Uprising | Nathan Lensky | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2001 | Messiah | Samuel Waite | TV | 7.4 | 49 |
| 2001 | Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | Milburn | TV | 7.9 | 49 |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Vidas Merlinis | TV | 6.8 | 49 |
| 2001 | Lorna Doone | Counsellor Doone | Film | 5.8 | 49 |
| 2001 | Uprising | Nathan Lensky | TV | — | 49 |
| 2001 | Charlotte Gray | Renech | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 2001 | Perfect Strangers | Stephen | TV | 6.6 | 49 |
| 2000 | Lorna Doone | Counsellor Doone | TV | 7.7 | 48 |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Herod (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 2000 | Esther Kahn | Sean | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1999 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Antoine Picard | TV | 7.7 | 47 |
| 1998 | Vanity Fair | Mr Pitt Crawley | TV | 7.6 | 46 |
| 1998 | Invasion: Earth | Lt. Charles Terrell | TV | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1998 | The Echo | Billy Blake | TV | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Eddie Darwin | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Rev. Wallace Stone | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | Wounded Corporal | Film | 6.4 | 45 |
| 1997 | Into the Blue | Dr. John Ockleton | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1997 | Bodyguards | Dusan Mesic | TV | 8.0 | 45 |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | Marcus Gwilym | TV | 7.6 | 44 |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Joseph (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1996 | The Moonstone | Ezra Jennings | Film | 7.6 | 44 |
| 1996 | Moses | Eliav | TV | 6.9 | 44 |
| 1995 | Bugs | Patrick Marcel | TV | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1995 | Sharman | Galilee | TV | — | 43 |
| 1995 | The Politician's Wife | Mark Hollister | TV | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1994 | Guinevere | Envoy | Film | 3.3 | 42 |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Dennis Prior | TV | 7.5 | 40 |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Leontes (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1991 | The Strauss Dynasty | Levi | TV | — | 39 |
| 1990 | Traitors | Robert Cecil | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Karl/Stein | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Vincenzo | TV | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Feste | Film | 7.4 | 36 |
| 1988 | Airbase | Vincenzo | Film | — | 36 |
| 1988 | Stanley | Stanley Spencer | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Stanley Spencer | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1985 | Monsignor Quixote | Robber | Film | 8.8 | 33 |
| 1985 | The Assam Garden | Mr. Sutton | Film | 7.3 | 33 |
| 1985 | Anna of the Five Towns | Willie Price | TV | 9.0 | 33 |
| 1984 | Freud | Wilhelm Fliess | TV | 5.0 | 32 |
| 1984 | Sakharov | Valery Chalidze | Film | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1983 | Good and Bad at Games | Film | — | 31 | |
| 1982 | The Missionary | Young Man at Shoot | Film | 5.6 | 30 |
| 1982 | King Lear | Edgar | Film | 6.5 | 30 |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Trofimov | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1981 | Troilus & Cressida | Troilus | Film | 8.0 | 29 |
| 1979 | The Serpent Son | Orestes | TV | 9.5 | 27 |
| 1978 | The Mill on the Floss | Philip Wakem | TV | 6.7 | 26 |
| 1978 | The Mill on the Floss | Philip Wakem | Film | — | 26 |
| 1974 | NOVA | Voltaire | TV | 7.0 | 22 |
| Santo Subito! | Father Mattew | Film | — | — | |
| Tick Tick Tick | Narrator | Film | — | — | |
| A Blue Butterfly | Film | — | — |