Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser

1952-02-14 Birmingham, England, UK 57 Credits

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Making 1899

Making 1899

2022

as Self

6.8
Acting

Go behind the scenes and see how the creators of "Dark" used groundbreaking virtual technology "The Volume" to shoot their new mystery series.

Benediction

Benediction

2021

as Stephen Tennant (Older)

6.2
Acting

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the gov...

From A Strange Land

From A Strange Land

2021

as Professor Dr Wolfgang Engel

Acting

An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-steppi...

Doughnut

Doughnut

2021

Thanks

7.2

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. https://shortoftheweek.com/2021...

Kindred

Kindred

2020

as Dr. Richards

5.5
Acting

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a cr...

Gatecrash

Gatecrash

2020

as Sid

5.9
Acting

A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no acciden...

The Courier

The Courier

2020

as Bertrand

7.0
Acting

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Disobedience

Disobedience

2018

as Rav Krushka

6.9
Acting

New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish com...

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

2018

as Reverend Woollett

6.2
Acting

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and f...

The Exception

The Exception

2017

as General Falkenberg

6.9
Acting

Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion...

A United Kingdom

A United Kingdom

2016

as Prime Minister Attlee

6.7
Acting

The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 ...

Allied

Allied

2016

as Emmanuel Lombard

6.8
Acting

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reuni...

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

2015

as Qyburn

8.6
Acting

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...

Closer to the Moon

Closer to the Moon

2014

as Holban

6.7
Acting

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they ar...

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

2012

as Father McReady

6.4
Acting

In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

The Lady

The Lady

2011

as Professor Finnis

6.8
Acting

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Flutter

Flutter

2011

as Bruno

6.0
Acting

Chancer John lives for playing the odds - and he's always willing to take a calculated risk. But when he meets the mysterious and beautiful female boo...

The Man who Crossed Hitler

The Man who Crossed Hitler

2011

as Rudolf Olden

6.5
Acting

In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young pr...

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011

as Lord John Carteret

6.6
Acting

Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to f...

Einstein and Eddington

Einstein and Eddington

2008

as Fritz Haber

6.8
Acting

A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first ...

Miss Potter

Miss Potter

2006

as Harold Warne

6.6
Acting

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Einstein's Big Idea

Einstein's Big Idea

2005

as Voltaire

7.2
Acting

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusio...

Class of '76

Class of '76

2005

as Martin Gibson

5.4
Acting

Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates....

River Queen

River Queen

2005

as Baine

5.7
Acting

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B...

Ahead of the Class

Ahead of the Class

2005

as Graham Ranger

6.8
Acting

Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: t...

The Girl in the Café

The Girl in the Café

2005

as George

7.1
Acting

Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bon...

Dirty Filthy Love

Dirty Filthy Love

2005

as Charles

6.7
Acting

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

Eroica

Eroica

2003

as Sukowaty

7.0
Acting

British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depi...

Otherworld

2003

as Teyrnon (voice)

5.1
Acting

Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabin...

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

Danielle Cable: Eyewitness

2003

as Batten

Acting

Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery...

The Project

2002

as Stanley Hall

Acting

The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power. Thei...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2002

as Bertilak / Green Knight (voice)

6.0
Acting

A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.

Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

2001

as Renech

6.1
Acting

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working...

Uprising

Uprising

2001

as Nathan Lensky

6.6
Acting

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

2001

as Counsellor Doone

5.7
Acting

The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the thron...

Esther Kahn

Esther Kahn

2000

as Sean

6.0
Acting

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

The Miracle Maker

The Miracle Maker

2000

as Herod (voice)

5.9
Acting

A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...

FairyTale: A True Story

FairyTale: A True Story

1997

as Wounded Corporal

6.4
Acting

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the ...

Into the Blue

Into the Blue

1997

as Dr. John Ockleton

6.0
Acting

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, i...

The Moonstone

The Moonstone

1996

as Ezra Jennings

7.0
Acting

Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective...

Guinevere

Guinevere

1994

as Envoy

1.5
Acting

As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims th...

Traitors

Traitors

1990

as Robert Cecil

Acting

A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

as Karl/Stein

6.6
Acting

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation ...

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

1988

as Feste

6.9
Acting

The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disgui...

Airbase

Airbase

1988

as Vincenzo

Acting

Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The...

Stanley

Stanley

1988

as Stanley Spencer

Acting

The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham,...

The Assam Garden

The Assam Garden

1985

as Mr. Sutton

6.5
Acting

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote

1985

as Robber

8.5
Acting

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r...

Sakharov

Sakharov

1984

as Valery Chalidze

7.0
Acting

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Good and Bad at Games

1983

Acting

The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) w...

The Missionary

The Missionary

1982

as Young Man at Shoot

5.6
Acting

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...

King Lear

King Lear

1982

as Edgar

6.0
Acting

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Troilus & Cressida

Troilus & Cressida

1981

as Troilus

8.0
Acting

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal ...

The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

1981

as Trofimov

Acting

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay deb...

The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

1978

as Philip Wakem

Acting

Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.

Tick Tick Tick

Tick Tick Tick

N/A

as Narrator

Acting

When the company Justin works for is taken over, he must choose between standing up for what he thinks is right or being made redundant.

The Yellow Tie

The Yellow Tie

N/A

as Martin Steinke

Acting

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in...