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