Anthony Andrews

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Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews is an English actor who has starred in a wide range of roles such as heroic fop Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel 1982, the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010) and eccentric alcoholic aristocrat Lord Sebastian Flyte in ITV's 1981 adaption of Brideshead Revisited (which won him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA). He has also played villians including Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in the 1990 film Hands of a Murderer and Robert Louis Stevenson's classic double character Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde in the 1989 Nightmare Classics adapation of the novel.

Some of his other film and TV roles include Wilfred of Ivanhoe in a 1982 adaption of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Hugh Firmin in Under the Volcano (1984), Robert Marriell in Haunted (1995), and bomb disposal expert Brian Ash in ITV's 1979 series Danger UXB. He is also a stage actor.