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Acting

Antony Sher

Career: Active from 1978 to 2016, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 18
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 24 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Antony Sher Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Adrenaline
3.8, average 4.8
Family Dynamics
4.2, average 4.8
Tech & Humanity
0.9, average 1.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 3
Political Intrigue 3
Melancholy 3
British Comedy 2
Character Study 2
Moral Dilemmas 2
Psychological Drama 2
Historical Setting 2
Character-Driven 2
Historical Drama 2
Adaptation 2
Stage Play 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

52

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

9 titles · average score 63

Joe Orton Laid Bare

as Ensemble Cast

RSC Live: King Lear

as King Lear

RSC Live: Henry IV Part 1

as Sir John Falstaff

RSC Live: Henry IV Part 2

as Sir John Falstaff

War Book

69

as David

Dickens in London

as Older Dickens(Voice)

National Theatre Live: Travelling Light

as Jacob Bindel

The Shadow Line

76

TV show · as Peter Glickman

The Wolfman

45

as Dr. Hoenneger

2000s

12 titles · average score 66

Three and Out

34

as Maurice

God on Trial

76

as Akiba

The Company

71

TV show · as Ezra ben Ezra, the Rabbi

Hitler: The Comedy Years

as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)

Primo

71

as Primo Levi

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

42

as Hitler

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Rafiel

Home

as Gerald Ballantyne

The Jury

73

TV show · as Gerald Lewis QC

Macbeth

as Macbeth

Murphy's Law

76

TV show · as Frank Jeremy

The Miracle Maker

73

as Ben Azra (voice)

1990s

17 titles · average score 70

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

81

as Colonel Moncoutant

The Winter's Tale

as Leontes

Shakespeare in Love

80

as Dr. Moth

Mrs Brown

77

as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli

Alive and Kicking

74

as Jack

The Wind in the Willows

60

as Chief Weasel

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

80

as Dr. Ernest Zeigler

King Richard III

as Richard (voice)

Genghis Cohn

56

as Genghis Cohn

The Crying Game

as Scum Editor

One Foot in the Grave

52

TV show · as Businessman

The Land of Dreams

as David Samuels

1980s

8 titles · average score 61

Erik the Viking

55

as Loki

The Play on One

TV show · as Capt Edmund Lambert

ScreenPlay

TV show · as David Samuels

Shadey

45

as Oliver Shadey

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Genghis Cohn

Tartuffe, or The Imposter

as Tartuffe

The History Man

TV show · as Professor Howard Kirk

Superman II

77

as Bell Boy

1970s

5 titles · average score 52

Yanks

52

as GI at Cinema

The Out of Town Boys

as Nathan

One Fine Day

as Mr. Alpert

Pickersgill People

TV show · as Piers Hatch / Sheikh Fahmi Al-Daoud Al-Tufah

as Morris

1960s

1 title

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Morris