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.
Filmography · 121
Game of Thrones
2011 · Qyburn
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Eddie Darwin
NOVA
1974 · Voltaire
The Crown
2016 · Harold Macmillan
Father Brown
2013 · Father Ignatius
Silent Witness
1996 · Marcus Gwilym
Andor
2022 · Lio Partagaz
Foyle's War
2002 · Austin Carmichael
A Touch of Frost
1992 · Dennis Prior
Endeavour
2013 · CS Reginald Bright
Waking the Dead
2001 · Professor Ray Levin
Killing Eve
2018 · Robert
Spooks
2002 · Nicholas Ashworth
New Tricks
2004
Screen Two
1985 · Stanley Spencer
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · Lord John Carteret
The Musketeers
2014
A Discovery of Witches
2018 · Rabbi Loew
Ripper Street
2012 · Dr. Karl Crabbe
The Hour
2011 · Clarence Fendley
Dalgliesh
2021 · Father John
Wolf Hall
2015 · Thomas More
The Hollow Crown
2012 · Exeter
1899
2022 · Mr. Franklin
Atlantis
2013 · Kyros
Bugs
1995 · Patrick Marcel
The Play on One
1988 · Vincenzo
Allied
2016 · Emmanuel Lombard
Perfect Strangers
2001 · Stephen
Little Dorrit
2008 · Mr. Merdle
Dickensian
2015 · Fagin
The Courier
2020 · Bertrand
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Leontes (voice)
The Game
2014 · C
The Escape Artist
2013 · Richard Mayfield QC
Garrow's Law
2009 · John Farmer
Disobedience
2018 · Rav Krushka
The Strauss Dynasty
1991 · Levi
Vanity Fair
1998 · Mr Pitt Crawley
Messiah
2001 · Samuel Waite
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · Vidas Merlinis
Hooten & The Lady
2016
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001 · Milburn
The Yellow Tie
2025 · Martin Steinke
Miss Potter
2006 · Harold Warne
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · Joseph (voice)
The Lady
2011 · Professor Finnis
The Trial of Christine Keeler
2019 · Michael Eddowes
Better
2023 · Vernon Marley
Vital Signs
2006 · Dr Lindsay
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999 · Antoine Picard
Lorna Doone
2000 · Counsellor Doone
Secret State
2012 · Sir Michael Rix
The World Will Tremble
2025 · Robbi Schulman
The Exception
2017 · General Falkenberg
Uprising
2001 · Nathan Lensky
ViQueens
2026 · Lars (voice)
Uprising
2001 · Nathan Lensky
A United Kingdom
2016 · Prime Minister Attlee
Moses
1996 · Eliav
Spies of Warsaw
2013 · Doctor Lapp
Five Daughters
2010 · Dr Nat Cary
Einstein and Eddington
2008 · Fritz Haber
Art That Made Us
2022 · Self - Actor (Endeavou...
The Miracle Maker
2000 · Herod (voice)
Sharman
1995 · Galilee
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Wounded Corporal
The Mill on the Floss
1978 · Philip Wakem
Life In Squares
2015 · Dr. Hyslop
Charlotte Gray
2001 · Renech
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015 · Qyburn
Freud
1984 · Wilhelm Fliess
On Chesil Beach
2018 · Reverend Woollett
Invasion: Earth
1998 · Lt. Charles Terrell
Bodyguards
1997 · Dusan Mesic
Monsignor Quixote
1985 · Robber
Guinevere
1994 · Envoy
Beshert
2025 · Mr Pinsky
The Missionary
1982 · Young Man at Shoot
The History of the World Backwards
2007
The Politician's Wife
1995 · Mark Hollister
Dickens
2002 · Charles Dickens
Dirty Filthy Love
2005 · Charles
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 · Feste
Einstein's Big Idea
2005 · Voltaire
Anna of the Five Towns
1985 · Willie Price
The Girl in the Café
2005 · George
Ahead of the Class
2005 · Graham Ranger
Gatecrash
2020 · Sid
Benediction
2021 · Stephen Tennant (Older...
The Serpent Son
1979 · Orestes
River Queen
2005 · Baine
Class of '76
2005 · Martin Gibson
Kindred
2020 · Dr. Richards
Lorna Doone
2001 · Counsellor Doone
The Echo
1998 · Billy Blake
Eroica
2003 · Sukowaty
The Cherry Orchard
1981 · Trofimov
The Scapegoat
2012 · Father McReady
The Assam Garden
1985 · Mr. Sutton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2002 · Bertilak / Green Knigh...
Airbase
1988 · Vincenzo
Making 1899
2022 · Self
Sakharov
1984 · Valery Chalidze
Tick Tick Tick
— · Narrator
Closer to the Moon
2014 · Holban
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness
2003 · Batten
The Moonstone
1996 · Ezra Jennings
The Man who Crossed Hitler
2011 · Rudolf Olden
Esther Kahn
2000 · Sean
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Karl/Stein
Otherworld
2003 · Teyrnon (voice)
King Lear
1982 · Edgar
Class of '76
2005 · Martin Gibson
From A Strange Land
2021 · Professor Dr Wolfgang...
Into the Blue
1997 · Dr. John Ockleton
Flutter
2011 · Bruno
Troilus & Cressida
1981 · Troilus
Stanley
1988 · Stanley Spencer
The Mill on the Floss
1978 · Philip Wakem
Traitors
1990 · Robert Cecil