Anton Lesser
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Game of Thrones
Qyburn
2011
Series
Midsomer Murders
Eddie Darwin
1997
Series
Midsomer Murders
Rev. Wallace Stone
1997
Series
The Crown
Harold Macmillan
2016
Series
NOVA
Voltaire
1974
Series
Father Brown
Father Ignatius
2013
Series
Silent Witness
Marcus Gwilym
1996
Series
Andor
Major Partagaz
2022
Series
Spooks
Nicholas Ashworth
2002
Series
A Touch of Frost
Dennis Prior
1992
Series
Screen Two
Stanley Spencer
1985
Series
New Tricks
2004
Series
Waking the Dead
Professor Ray Levin
2001
Series
Endeavour
CS Reginald Bright
2013
Series
Foyle's War
Austin Carmichael
2002
Series
Killing Eve
Robert
2018
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
Paul Goodman
1996
Film
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Lord John Carteret
2011
Series
A Discovery of Witches
Rabbi Loew
2018
Series
Ripper Street
Dr. Karl Crabbe
2012
Series
The Musketeers
2014
Series
Atlantis
Kyros
2013
Series
Bugs
Patrick Marcel
1995
Series
Wolf Hall
Thomas More
2015
Series
Dalgliesh
Father John
2021
Series
The Hollow Crown
Exeter
2012
Series
The Play on One
Vincenzo
1988
Series
Garrow's Law
John Farmer
2009
Series
1899
Mr. Franklin
2022
Series
Little Dorrit
Mr. Merdle
2008
Film
Disobedience
Rav Krushka
2018
Film
Allied
Emmanuel Lombard
2016
Series
Dickensian
Fagin
2015
Series
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Leontes (voice)
1992
Series
The Hour
Clarence Fendley
2011
Series
Hooten & The Lady
2016
Series
Messiah
Samuel Waite
2001
Series
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Milburn
2001
Film
The Courier
Bertrand
2020
Series
The Game
C
2014
Series
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Joseph (voice)
1996
Series
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Vidas Merlinis
2001
Series
Vanity Fair
Mr Pitt Crawley
1998
Series
The Trial of Christine Keeler
Michael Eddowes
2019
Series
The Escape Artist
Richard Mayfield QC
2013
Series
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Antoine Picard
1999
Series
Secret State
Sir Michael Rix
2012
Series
Five Daughters
Dr Nat Cary
2010
Series
The Strauss Dynasty
Levi
1991
Series
Freud
Wilhelm Fliess
1984
Series
Spies of Warsaw
Doctor Lapp
2013
Series
Moses
Eliav
1996
Series
Art That Made Us
Self - Actor (Endeavour)
2022
Film
The World Will Tremble
Robbi Schulman
2025
Series
Invasion: Earth
Lt. Charles Terrell
1998
Series
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
2000
Series
Life in Squares
Dr. Hyslop
2015
Film
The Exception
General Falkenberg
2017
Series
Vital Signs
Dr Lindsay
2006
Series
Better
Vernon Marley
2023
Film
Miss Potter
Harold Warne
2006
Series
The Politician's Wife
Mark Hollister
1995
Film
On Chesil Beach
Reverend Woollett
2018
Film
A United Kingdom
Prime Minister Attlee
2016
Film
Uprising
Nathan Lensky
2001
Series
Sharman
Galilee
1995
Film
The Lady
Professor Finnis
2011
Series
The Mill on the Floss
Philip Wakem
1978
Film
Einstein and Eddington
Fritz Haber
2008
Film
FairyTale: A True Story
Wounded Corporal
1997
Film
The Yellow Tie
Martin Steinke
2025
London
Charles Dickens
2004
Film
The Miracle Maker
Herod (voice)
2000
Series
Perfect Strangers
Stephen
2001
Series
Bodyguards
Dusan Mesic
1997
Film
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Qyburn
2015
Series
Dickens
Charles Dickens
2002
Series
Anna of the Five Towns
Willie Price
1985
Film
Benediction
Stephen Tennant (Older)
2021
Series
The Serpent Son
Orestes
1979
Film
The Missionary
Young Man at Shoot
1982
Film
Charlotte Gray
Renech
2001
Film
Imagining Argentina
General Guzmán
2003
Series
The History of the World Backwards
2007
Film
ViQueens
Lars (voice)
2026
Series
Swallow
Paul Valley
2001
Series
Uprising
Nathan Lensky
2001
Film
The Girl in the Café
George
2005
Film
The Scapegoat
Father McReady
2012
Film
Closer to the Moon
Holban
2014
Film
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Karl/Stein
1989
Series
The Echo
Billy Blake
1998
Film
Einstein's Big Idea
Voltaire
2005
Series
Class of '76
Martin Gibson
2005
Joseph
Joseph (Voice)
1996
Downtown Lagos
Mungo Dawson
1992
Film
Kindred
Dr. Richards
2020
Film
Esther Kahn
Sean
2000
Film
Guinevere
Envoy
1994
Film
River Queen
Baine
2005
Film
Lorna Doone
Counsellor Doone
2001
Film
Sakharov
Valery Chalidze
1984
Film
Ahead of the Class
Graham Ranger
2005
Film
The Cherry Orchard
Trofimov
1981
Film
Troilus & Cressida
Troilus
1981
Film
Monsignor Quixote
Robber
1985
Film
King Lear
Edgar
1982
Film
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Feste
1988
Film
From A Strange Land
Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
2021
Film
Making 1899
Self
2022
Film
Into the Blue
Dr. John Ockleton
1997
Film
Eroica
Sukowaty
2003
Film
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Batten
2003
Santo Subito!
Father Mattew
Film
Dirty Filthy Love
Charles
2005
Film
The Winter's Tale
Leontes (voice)
1994
Film
The Man who Crossed Hitler
Rudolf Olden
2011
Film
Otherworld
Teyrnon (voice)
2003
Film
Gatecrash
Sid
2020
The Project
Stanley Hall
2002
Film
The Mill on the Floss
Philip Wakem
1978
Film
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
2002
Film
Beshert
Mr Pinsky
2025
Film
Airbase
Vincenzo
1988
Film
The Moonstone
Ezra Jennings
1996
Film
Tick Tick Tick
Narrator
Film
Traitors
Robert Cecil
1990
Film
The Assam Garden
Mr. Sutton
1985
Film
Stanley
Stanley Spencer
1988
Film
Flutter
Bruno
2011
A Blue Butterfly
Good and Bad at Games
1983
Film
Class of '76
Martin Gibson
2005
Rubinstein’s
Arnold