Person

Anton Lesser

Acting · 1952-02-14 · Birmingham, England, UK

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 (29)

Year	Film	As
2026	Faraway Home	Mr. Senesh
2025	The World Will Tremble	Robbi Schulman
2025	The Yellow Tie	Martin Steinke
2023	Morse and the Last Endeavour	Self
2022	Making 1899	Self
2021	Benediction	Stephen Tennant (Older)
2021	A Cold Supper Behind Harrods	Leo
2020	The Courier	Bertrand
2018	Disobedience	Rav Krushka
2018	On Chesil Beach	Reverend Woollett
2017	The Exception	General Falkenberg
2017	Catherine the Great: Husbands, Lovers and Sons	Peter III
2016	Allied	Emmanuel Lombard
2016	A United Kingdom	Prime Minister Attlee
2015	Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience	Qyburn
2014	Closer to the Moon	Holban
2012	The Scapegoat	Father McReady
2011	The Man Who Crossed Hitler	Rudolf Olden
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Lord John Carteret
2011	The Lady	Professor Finnis
2008	Einstein and Eddington	Fritz Haber
2006	Miss Potter	Harold Warne
2005	Class of '76	Martin Gibson
2003	Imagining Argentina	General Guzmán
2002	The Project	Stanley Hall
2001	Uprising	Nathan Lensky
2000	The Miracle Maker	Herod (voice)
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Wounded Corporal
1984	Freud	Wilhelm Fliess