Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

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.

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

2011 • as Qyburn

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

1997 • as Eddie Darwin

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

1997 • as Rev. Wallace Stone

The Crown

The Crown

2016 • as Harold Macmillan

NOVA

NOVA

1974 • as Voltaire

Andor

Andor

2022 • as Lio Partagaz

Filmography

2026

ViQueens
ViQueens
as Lars (voice)
Movie - Released: 12/26/2026

2025

The Yellow Tie
The Yellow Tie
as Martin Steinke
Movie - Released: 11/14/2025
Beshert
Beshert
as Mr Pinsky
Movie - Released: 11/10/2025
World of Westeros Ambient Video
World of Westeros Ambient Video
as Qyburn
Movie - Released: 12/12/2025
The World Will Tremble
The World Will Tremble
as Robbi Schulman
Movie - Released: 3/14/2025

2023

Better
Better
as Vernon Marley
TV - Released: 2/13/2023

2022

Making 1899
Making 1899
as Self
Movie - Released: 11/16/2022
Art That Made Us
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actor (Endeavour)
TV - Released: 4/7/2022
1899
1899
as Mr. Franklin
TV - Released: 11/17/2022
Andor
Andor
as Lio Partagaz
TV - Released: 9/21/2022

2021

From A Strange Land
From A Strange Land
as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel
Movie - Released: 11/2/2021
Benediction
Benediction
as Stephen Tennant (Older)
Movie - Released: 12/23/2021
Dalgliesh
Dalgliesh
as Father John
TV - Released: 11/4/2021

2020

Gatecrash
Gatecrash
as Sid
Movie - Released: 10/30/2020
Kindred
Kindred
as Dr. Richards
Movie - Released: 11/6/2020
The Courier
The Courier
as Bertrand
Movie - Released: 1/24/2020

2019

The Trial of Christine Keeler
The Trial of Christine Keeler
as Michael Eddowes
TV - Released: 12/29/2019

2018

Disobedience
Disobedience
as Rav Krushka
Movie - Released: 4/24/2018
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach
as Reverend Woollett
Movie - Released: 1/19/2018
Killing Eve
Killing Eve
as Robert
TV - Released: 4/8/2018
A Discovery of Witches
A Discovery of Witches
as Rabbi Loew
TV - Released: 9/14/2018

2017

The Exception
The Exception
as General Falkenberg
Movie - Released: 6/2/2017

2016

Allied
Allied
as Emmanuel Lombard
Movie - Released: 11/23/2016
A United Kingdom
A United Kingdom
as Prime Minister Attlee
Movie - Released: 11/25/2016
The Crown
The Crown
as Harold Macmillan
TV - Released: 11/4/2016
Hooten & The Lady
Hooten & The Lady
TV - Released: 9/16/2016

2015

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Qyburn
Movie - Released: 1/29/2015
Dickensian
Dickensian
as Fagin
TV - Released: 12/26/2015
Life In Squares
Life In Squares
as Dr. Hyslop
TV - Released: 7/27/2015
Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall
as Thomas More
TV - Released: 1/21/2015

2014

Closer to the Moon
Closer to the Moon
as Holban
Movie - Released: 3/7/2014
The Musketeers
The Musketeers
TV - Released: 1/19/2014
The Game
The Game
as C
TV - Released: 11/5/2014

2013

Atlantis
Atlantis
as Kyros
TV - Released: 9/28/2013
Father Brown
Father Brown
as Father Ignatius
TV - Released: 1/14/2013
Endeavour
Endeavour
as CS Reginald Bright
TV - Released: 4/14/2013
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist
as Richard Mayfield QC
TV - Released: 10/29/2013
Spies of Warsaw
Spies of Warsaw
as Doctor Lapp
TV - Released: 1/9/2013

2012

The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat
as Father McReady
Movie - Released: 9/9/2012
Ripper Street
Ripper Street
as Dr. Karl Crabbe
TV - Released: 12/30/2012
Secret State
Secret State
as Sir Michael Rix
TV - Released: 11/7/2012
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown
as Exeter
TV - Released: 6/30/2012

2011

The Man who Crossed Hitler
The Man who Crossed Hitler
as Rudolf Olden
Movie - Released: 8/21/2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
as Lord John Carteret
Movie - Released: 5/15/2011
Flutter
Flutter
as Bruno
Movie - Released: 10/5/2011
The Lady
The Lady
as Professor Finnis
Movie - Released: 11/30/2011
The Hour
The Hour
as Clarence Fendley
TV - Released: 7/19/2011
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
as Qyburn
TV - Released: 4/17/2011

2010

Five Daughters
Five Daughters
as Dr Nat Cary
TV - Released: 4/25/2010

2009

Garrow's Law
Garrow's Law
as John Farmer
TV - Released: 11/1/2009

2008

Einstein and Eddington
Einstein and Eddington
as Fritz Haber
Movie - Released: 11/29/2008
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
as Mr. Merdle
TV - Released: 10/26/2008

2007

The History of the World Backwards
The History of the World Backwards
TV - Released: 10/30/2007

2006

Miss Potter
Miss Potter
as Harold Warne
Movie - Released: 12/3/2006
Vital Signs
Vital Signs
as Dr Lindsay
TV - Released: 4/20/2006

2005

The Girl in the Café
The Girl in the Café
as George
Movie - Released: 6/25/2005
Class of '76
Class of '76
as Martin Gibson
Movie - Released: 10/5/2005
Einstein's Big Idea
Einstein's Big Idea
as Voltaire
Movie - Released: 10/11/2005
Dirty Filthy Love
Dirty Filthy Love
as Charles
Movie - Released: 5/24/2005
Ahead of the Class
Ahead of the Class
as Graham Ranger
Movie - Released: 8/5/2005
River Queen
River Queen
as Baine
Movie - Released: 9/12/2005
Class of '76
Class of '76
as Martin Gibson
TV - Released: 10/3/2005

2004

New Tricks
New Tricks
TV - Released: 1/1/2004
TV
London
as Charles Dickens
TV - Released: 5/7/2004

2003

Otherworld
Otherworld
as Teyrnon (voice)
Movie - Released: 6/26/2003
Eroica
Eroica
as Sukowaty
Movie - Released: 10/4/2003
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
as Batten
Movie - Released: 4/14/2003

2002

Movie
The Project
as Stanley Hall
Movie - Released: 11/10/2002
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)
Movie - Released: 8/14/2002
Spooks
Spooks
as Nicholas Ashworth
TV - Released: 5/13/2002
Foyle's War
Foyle's War
as Austin Carmichael
TV - Released: 10/27/2002
Dickens
Dickens
as Charles Dickens
TV - Released: 5/11/2002

2001

Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray
as Renech
Movie - Released: 12/28/2001
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone
as Counsellor Doone
Movie - Released: 3/11/2001
Uprising
Uprising
as Nathan Lensky
Movie - Released: 11/4/2001
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead
as Professor Ray Levin
TV - Released: 6/18/2001
Messiah
Messiah
as Samuel Waite
TV - Released: 5/26/2001
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
as Milburn
TV - Released: 9/4/2001
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers
as Stephen
TV - Released: 5/10/2001
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Vidas Merlinis
TV - Released: 12/2/2001
Uprising
Uprising
as Nathan Lensky
TV - Released: 11/4/2001

2000

The Miracle Maker
The Miracle Maker
as Herod (voice)
Movie - Released: 3/31/2000
Esther Kahn
Esther Kahn
as Sean
Movie - Released: 10/4/2000
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone
as Counsellor Doone
TV - Released: 12/24/2000

1999

The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Antoine Picard
TV - Released: 1/24/1999

1998

The Echo
The Echo
as Billy Blake
TV - Released: 12/29/1998
Invasion: Earth
Invasion: Earth
as Lt. Charles Terrell
TV - Released: 5/8/1998
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
as Mr Pitt Crawley
TV - Released: 11/1/1998

1997

Into the Blue
Into the Blue
as Dr. John Ockleton
Movie - Released: 6/30/1997
FairyTale: A True Story
FairyTale: A True Story
as Wounded Corporal
Movie - Released: 10/24/1997
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
as Eddie Darwin
TV - Released: 3/23/1997
Bodyguards
Bodyguards
as Dusan Mesic
TV - Released: 5/1/1997
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
as Rev. Wallace Stone
TV - Released: 3/23/1997

1996

The Moonstone
The Moonstone
as Ezra Jennings
Movie - Released: 12/29/1996
Silent Witness
Silent Witness
as Marcus Gwilym
TV - Released: 2/21/1996
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Joseph (voice)
TV - Released: 10/16/1996
Moses
Moses
as Eliav
TV - Released: 4/7/1996

1995

Sharman
Sharman
as Galilee
TV - Released: 4/5/1995
Bugs
Bugs
as Patrick Marcel
TV - Released: 4/1/1995
The Politician's Wife
The Politician's Wife
as Mark Hollister
TV - Released: 5/16/1995

1994

Guinevere
Guinevere
as Envoy
Movie - Released: 5/7/1994

1992

A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost
as Dennis Prior
TV - Released: 12/6/1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Leontes (voice)
TV - Released: 11/9/1992

1991

The Strauss Dynasty
The Strauss Dynasty
as Levi
TV - Released: 12/16/1991

1990

Traitors
Traitors
as Robert Cecil
Movie - Released: 11/5/1990

1989

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Karl/Stein
Movie - Released: 4/22/1989

1988

Stanley
Stanley
as Stanley Spencer
Movie - Released: 1/31/1988
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Feste
Movie - Released: 12/30/1988
Airbase
Airbase
as Vincenzo
Movie - Released: 3/1/1988

1985

Monsignor Quixote
Monsignor Quixote
as Robber
Movie - Released: 1/1/1985
The Assam Garden
The Assam Garden
as Mr. Sutton
Movie - Released: 6/4/1985
Anna of the Five Towns
Anna of the Five Towns
as Willie Price
TV - Released: 1/9/1985

1984

Sakharov
Sakharov
as Valery Chalidze
Movie - Released: 6/20/1984
Freud
Freud
as Wilhelm Fliess
TV - Released: 9/14/1984

1983

Movie
Good and Bad at Games
Movie - Released: 12/18/1983

1982

The Missionary
The Missionary
as Young Man at Shoot
Movie - Released: 11/2/1982
King Lear
King Lear
as Edgar
Movie - Released: 9/19/1982

1981

Troilus & Cressida
Troilus & Cressida
as Troilus
Movie - Released: 11/7/1981
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
as Trofimov
Movie - Released: 10/13/1981

1979

The Serpent Son
The Serpent Son
as Orestes
TV - Released: 3/7/1979

1978

The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss
as Philip Wakem
Movie - Released: 1/1/1978
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss
as Philip Wakem
TV - Released: 12/31/1978

1974

NOVA
NOVA
as Voltaire
TV - Released: 3/3/1974

Unknown

Tick Tick Tick
Tick Tick Tick
as Narrator
Movie
Movie
Santo Subito!
as Father Mattew
Movie
Movie
A Blue Butterfly
Movie