Anthony Andrews
{{Short description|British actor (born 1948)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Anthony Andrews
| birthname = Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews
| image = Anthony Andrews Allan Warren.jpg
| caption = Andrews in 1982 by Allan Warren
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|1|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Finchley, London, England
| spouse = {{Marriage|Georgina Simpson|1971}}
| children = 3
| occupation = Actor
}}
Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews{{Cite web |title=Anthony Colin Andrews Biography (1948-) |publisher=Filmreference.com |year=2011 |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/12/Anthony-Andrews.html |access-date=16 January 2011}} (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor. He played Lord Sebastian Flyte in the ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited (1981), for which he won Golden Globe and BAFTA television awards, and was nominated for an Emmy. His other lead roles include: Operation Daybreak (1975), Danger UXB (1979), Ivanhoe (1982) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), and he played British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010).
Early life and career
Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (née Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, an arranger and conductor for the BBC. He grew up in North Finchley, London. At the age of eight, he took dancing lessons, making his stage debut as the White Rabbit in a stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.{{Cite news |title=Debut : Anthony Andrews |newspaper=The Independent |location=London, UK |date=25 April 2001}} He attended the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey, Hertfordshire.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
After a series of jobs that included catering, farming and journalism, he secured a position at the Chichester Theatre, where he worked as an assistant stage manager and later as a stand-in producer. In 1968, he auditioned for a production of Alan Bennett's new play, Forty Years On, which featured John Gielgud as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period. Andrews was cast as Skinner, one of twenty schoolboys. In 1974, he played Lord Robert, Marquis of Stockbridge in the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. In 1975, he had a leading role in the Spanish film Las adolescentes (The Adolescents), opposite Koo Stark."Adolescentes, Las" in Luis Gasca, Un siglo de cine español (Planeta, 1998), p. 17
In June 1977, he was cast in the role of Bodie in the ITV series The Professionals. However, after three days of filming, the creator and producer Brian Clemens believed that the chemistry between Andrews and Martin Shaw (Doyle) did not work and that "the pair did not have the required undercurrent of menace to carry off the concept". Lewis Collins replaced Andrews in the part.{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/10481069/Lewis-Collins-obituary.html |title=Obituary :Lewis Collins |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=28 November 2013 |location=London, UK |access-date=25 February 2016}} Following that, in 1979, Andrews was the main star of the ITV television series Danger UXB, in which he played a British bomb disposal officer in the London Blitz. The series first aired in the United Kingdom in 1979 on the ITV network.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
His subsequent work includes the leading role of Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (1981). In 1982, he won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award for his performance and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In the United States, Andrews is best known for his portrayal of the titular character in the television film Ivanhoe as well as that of Sir Percy Blakeney in the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (both 1982).Quinlan, David (1996) Quinlan's Film Stars, Batsford, {{ISBN|0-7134-7751-2}}, p. 16
At the National Theatre in London, he was in Coming in to Land (1986/1987) by Stephen Poliakoff, alongside Dame Maggie Smith.{{cite web | url=http://www.stephenpoliakoff.com/theatre-plays | title=Theatre Plays }} He also played Professor Higgins in a stage version of My Fair Lady (2003), and Count Fosco in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White (2005).{{cite web|url=http://www.flyrope.com/sections/people/index.php?var=45703 |access-date=11 October 2006 |title=Anthony Andrews|website=flyrope.com|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311120057/http://www.flyrope.com/sections/people/index.php?var=45703 |archive-date=11 March 2007 }}
He was the narrator for a 21st anniversary BBC Radio 2 special broadcast of Cameron Mackintosh's musical Les Misérables, sung by the then West End cast at the Mermaid Theatre in London on Sunday 8 October 2006.{{fact|date=March 2024}} Andrews appeared as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in the film The King's Speech (2010), for which he and his castmates won a 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sag-awards-2011-the-kings-speech-takes-top-prize/|title=Entertainment SAG Awards 2011: 'The King's Speech' Takes Top Prize|publisher=CBS News|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=June 5, 2012|access-date=October 5, 2024|archive-date=6 October 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241006021501/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sag-awards-2011-the-kings-speech-takes-top-prize/}}
Personal life
File:Anthony Andrews & Georgina Simpson Allan Warren (cropped).jpg
Andrews met actress Georgina Simpson of the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store family and they were married on 1 December 1971. They have three children.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
Andrews survived a case of water intoxication in 2003. The condition, also known as hyponatraemia ("low blood sodium"), occurs when sodium ions in the body are diluted so far that nerves are unable to function properly. The condition has symptoms similar to those of dehydration, such as headaches, nausea and cramps. While performing as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Andrews consumed up to eight litres of water a day. He lost consciousness and spent three days in intensive care.{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3044502.stm |title=Actor Andrews in water overdose |work=BBC News |date= 4 July 2003 |publisher=BBC |location=London |access-date=25 February 2016}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"|1972
| Reg Hogg | rowspan="2" | TV film |
| A Day Out
| Brothers |
| 1973
| Hugo Flaxman | |
| 1974
| Catchpole | |
| rowspan="2"|1975
| Jimmy | |
| Operation Daybreak
| |
| 1976
| Call Girl | Marcos | |
| 1978
| Claudio | rowspan="6" | TV film |
| 1981
| Buckley |
| rowspan="3"|1982
| Ivanhoe | Wilfred of Ivanhoe |
| La Ronde
| The Young Gentleman |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel
| Sir Percy Blakeney |
| 1983
| Tony Browne |
| 1984
| Hugh Firmin | |
| 1985
| Johann von Tiebolt | |
| 1986
| Major Hanlon | |
| 1987
| Major Richard Meinertzhagen | |
| rowspan="3"|1988
| Bluegrass | Michael Fitzgerald | rowspan="2" | TV film |
| The Woman He Loved |
| Hanna's War
| McCormack | |
| 1990
| TV film |
| 1991
| Andrei Miller | |
| 1995
| Haunted | Robert Mariell | |
| 2000
| TV film |
| 2007
| Last Night | Dad | Short film |
| 2010
| |
| 2019
| The Professor and the Madman | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1968
| Harry | Episode: "A Beast with Two Backs" |
| rowspan="4"|1972
| Paul Richards | Episode: "First Offenders" |
| Doomwatch
| Carlos | Episode: "Say Knife, Fat Man" |
| Follyfoot
| Lord Beck | Episode: "The Awakening" |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre
| Michael Warren | Episode: "The Judge's Wife" |
| rowspan="3"|1974
| Sir Nigel Olifaunt | Mini-series, 5 episodes |
| QB VII
| Stephen Kelno | Mini-series, 2 episodes |
| The Pallisers
| Earl of Silverbridge | Recurring role, 7 episodes |
| 1974-1975
| Steerforth | Mini-series, 4 episodes |
| 1975
| Marquis of Stockbridge | Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|1976
| Marcus Carrington | Episode: "Lottie's Boy" |
| rowspan="2"|BBC Play of the Month
| Hon. Alan Howard | Episode: ''"French Without Tears" |
| Charles Courtley
| Episode: "London Assurance" |
| rowspan="3"|1977
| Wings | Lieutenant Walker | Episode: "The Prisoner's Friend" |
| The Sunday Drama
| Harry | Episode: "A Superstition" |
| BBC Play of the Month
| Horner | Episode: "The Country Wife" |
| 1978
| Mercutio | Episode: "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 1979
| Brian Ash | Series regular, 13 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|1981
| Tony Selkirk | Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| Brideshead Revisited
| Sebastian Flyte | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
| 1984
| John Loomis | Episode: "Z for Zachariah" |
| 1985
| A.D. | Nero | Mini-series, 5 episodes |
| 1988
| Johnnie Aysgarth | Episode: "Suspicion" |
| rowspan="3"|1989
| Michael Trent | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Columbo
| Elliott Blake | Episode: "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine" |
| Nightmare Classics
| Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde | Episode: "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" |
| rowspan="2"|1992
| William Whitfield | Mini-series, 2 episodes |
| Screen Two
| Christopher Edwardes | Episode: "The Law Lord" |
| rowspan="2"|1996
| Luke Crossland | Episode: "Heartstones" |
| Tales from the Crypt
| Jonathan | Episode: "About Face" |
| 1997
| Robin | Episode: "Mothertime" |
| 2001
| Boy | Mini-series, 3 episodes |
| 2003
| Mini-series, 1 episode |
| 2004
| Richard Oakley | Episode: "The Invisible Worm" |
| 2006
| Tommy Beresford | Episode: "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" |
| 2012
| Birdsong | Colonel Barclay | Mini-series, 1 episode |
| 2015
| Lord Hazelwood | Series regular, 6 episodes |
| 2020
| Recurring role, 5 episodes |
=Theatre=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Venue ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"|1968
| Dragon Variations | Douglas Blake | Duke of York's Theatre, London | |
| Forty Years On
| Skinner | |
| rowspan="2"|1971
| Balthasar | rowspan="2" | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London | rowspan="2" | with New Shakespeare Company |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Mustardseed |
| 1986
| Garonway Rees | |
| 1987
| Neville | |
| 1999
| Vertigo | | |
| 2001
| Ghosts | Pastor Manders | |
| 2003
| Henry Higgins | |
| 2005
| Count Fosco | |
| 2007
| Howard Joyce | |
| 2011
| Major Oscar Hadley | Nuffield Theatre, Southampton | |
| 2012
| A Marvellous Year for Plums | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester | |
Producing credits
- Lost in Siberia (1991)
- Haunted (1995)
Awards and nominations
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|762|Anthony Andrews}}
- {{screenonline name | 1382586 }}
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Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:21st-century English male actors
Category:Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners
Category:Best Miniseries or Television Movie Actor Golden Globe winners
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:People educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys