Anton Lesser

Biography

Anton Lesser is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Lio Partagaz in Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.

Known For

Game of Thrones

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

The Crown

Silent Witness

NOVA

Father Brown

New Tricks

All Movies (61)

• ViQueens2026 · as Lars (voice)
• The Yellow Tie2025 · as Martin Steinke
• Beshert2025 · as Mr Pinsky
• The World Will Tremble2025 · as Robbi Schulman
• Making 18992022 · as Self
• Benediction2021 · as Stephen Tennant (Older)
• From A Strange Land2021 · as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
• Kindred2020 · as Dr. Richards
• Gatecrash2020 · as Sid
• The Courier2020 · as Bertrand
• Disobedience2018 · as Rav Krushka
• On Chesil Beach2018 · as Reverend Woollett
• The Exception2017 · as General Falkenberg
• A United Kingdom2016 · as Prime Minister Attlee
• Allied2016 · as Emmanuel Lombard
• Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience2015 · as Qyburn
• Closer to the Moon2014 · as Holban
• The Scapegoat2012 · as Father McReady
• The Lady2011 · as Professor Finnis
• Flutter2011 · as Bruno
• The Man who Crossed Hitler2011 · as Rudolf Olden
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011 · as Lord John Carteret
• Einstein and Eddington2008 · as Fritz Haber
• Miss Potter2006 · as Harold Warne
• Einstein's Big Idea2005 · as Voltaire
• Class of '762005 · as Martin Gibson
• River Queen2005 · as Baine
• Ahead of the Class2005 · as Graham Ranger
• The Girl in the Café2005 · as George
• Dirty Filthy Love2005 · as Charles
• Eroica2003 · as Sukowaty
• Otherworld2003 · as Teyrnon (voice)
• Danielle Cable: Eyewitness2003 · as Batten
• The Project2002 · as Stanley Hall
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2002 · as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
• Charlotte Gray2001 · as Renech
• Uprising2001 · as Nathan Lensky
• Lorna Doone2001 · as Counsellor Doone
• Esther Kahn2000 · as Sean
• The Miracle Maker2000 · as Herod (voice)
• FairyTale: A True Story1997 · as Wounded Corporal
• Into the Blue1997 · as Dr. John Ockleton
• The Moonstone1996 · as Ezra Jennings
• Guinevere1994 · as Envoy
• Traitors1990 · as Robert Cecil
• Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story1989 · as Karl/Stein
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will1988 · as Feste
• Airbase1988 · as Vincenzo
• Stanley1988 · as Stanley Spencer
• The Assam Garden1985 · as Mr. Sutton
• Monsignor Quixote1985 · as Robber
• Sakharov1984 · as Valery Chalidze
• Good and Bad at Games1983
• The Missionary1982 · as Young Man at Shoot
• King Lear1982 · as Edgar
• Troilus & Cressida1981 · as Troilus
• The Cherry Orchard1981 · as Trofimov
• The Mill on the Floss1978 · as Philip Wakem
• Tick Tick Tick— · as Narrator
• Santo Subito!— · as Father Mattew
• A Blue Butterfly—

All TV Shows (66)

• Better2023 · as Vernon Marley
• 18992022 · as Mr. Franklin
• Andor2022 · as Lio Partagaz
• Art That Made Us2022 · as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
• Dalgliesh2021 · as Father John
• The Trial of Christine Keeler2019 · as Michael Eddowes
• A Discovery of Witches2018 · as Rabbi Loew
• Killing Eve2018 · as Robert
• The Crown2016 · as Harold Macmillan
• Hooten & The Lady2016
• Dickensian2015 · as Fagin
• Life In Squares2015 · as Dr. Hyslop
• Wolf Hall2015 · as Thomas More
• The Game2014 · as C
• The Musketeers2014
• The Escape Artist2013 · as Richard Mayfield QC
• Atlantis2013 · as Kyros
• Endeavour2013 · as CS Reginald Bright
• Father Brown2013 · as Father Ignatius
• Spies of Warsaw2013 · as Doctor Lapp
• Ripper Street2012 · as Dr. Karl Crabbe
• Secret State2012 · as Sir Michael Rix
• The Hollow Crown2012 · as Exeter
• The Hour2011 · as Clarence Fendley
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Qyburn
• Five Daughters2010 · as Dr Nat Cary
• Garrow's Law2009 · as John Farmer
• Little Dorrit2008 · as Mr. Merdle
• The History of the World Backwards2007
• Vital Signs2006 · as Dr Lindsay
• Class of '762005 · as Martin Gibson
• London2004 · as Charles Dickens
• New Tricks2004
• Foyle's War2002 · as Austin Carmichael
• Spooks2002 · as Nicholas Ashworth
• Dickens2002 · as Charles Dickens
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story2001 · as Vidas Merlinis
• Uprising2001 · as Nathan Lensky
• Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes2001 · as Milburn
• Waking the Dead2001 · as Professor Ray Levin
• Messiah2001 · as Samuel Waite
• Perfect Strangers2001 · as Stephen
• Lorna Doone2000 · as Counsellor Doone
• The Scarlet Pimpernel1999 · as Antoine Picard
• The Echo1998 · as Billy Blake
• Vanity Fair1998 · as Mr Pitt Crawley
• Invasion: Earth1998 · as Lt. Charles Terrell
• Bodyguards1997 · as Dusan Mesic
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Eddie Darwin
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Rev. Wallace Stone
• Testament: The Bible in Animation1996 · as Joseph (voice)
• Moses1996 · as Eliav
• Silent Witness1996 · as Marcus Gwilym
• The Politician's Wife1995 · as Mark Hollister
• Sharman1995 · as Galilee
• Bugs1995 · as Patrick Marcel
• A Touch of Frost1992 · as Dennis Prior
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales1992 · as Leontes (voice)
• The Strauss Dynasty1991 · as Levi
• The Play on One1988 · as Vincenzo
• Anna of the Five Towns1985 · as Willie Price
• Screen Two1985 · as Stanley Spencer
• Freud1984 · as Wilhelm Fliess
• The Serpent Son1979 · as Orestes
• The Mill on the Floss1978 · as Philip Wakem
• NOVA1974 · as Voltaire