Anton Lesser Filmography

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Miss Potter

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: The true story of the woman who created some of the most beloved characters in children's literature comes to the screen in this drama leavened with elements of comedy and romance. Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) is a imaginative but gently eccentric woman living in the socially and Read More

12/29/06
River Queen

Actors: Samantha Morton, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's Read More

2005
The Girl in the Café

Actors: Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald, Corin Redgrave, Anton Lesser, Meneka Das, Penny Downie

Synopsis: Produced for HBO, the Capraesque romantic comedy The Girl in the Café stars Bill Nighy as Lawrence, a mild and unprepossessing British civil servant assigned to his country's delegation at the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Although he'd resigned himself to a life of lonely bachelorhood Read More

2005
Imagining Argentina

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rubén Blades, Maria Canals, Leticia Dolera

Synopsis: Accomplished British screenwriter Christopher Hampton directs the political drama Imagining Argentina, based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton. Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas Read More

6/11/04
Eroica

Actors: Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Frank Finlay, Claire Skinner, Jack Davenport

Synopsis: British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV movie concerns the first performance of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 3" on June 9, 1804, in Vienna. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited all his Read More

2003
A Christmas Carol

2003
Charlotte Gray

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks, this drama, set in Europe during World War II, stars Cate Blanchett as Charlotte, a Scottish woman living in London. Charlotte falls in love with Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones), a handsome RAF pilot, and the two are soon caught up in a torrid Read More

12/28/01
Lorna Doone

Actors: Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Filmed in London and Wales, this two-part adaptation of the oft-dramatized R.D. Blackmore novel Lorna Doone was praised for its realism, though one or two nitpickers pointed out that the costumes were not all "in period" for 17th century Scotland. This time around, Amelia Warner starred as the Read More

2001
Esther Kahn

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: The English-language debut of French director Arnaud Desplechin, Esther Kahn charts the ascension of a lower-class Jewish girl from a turn-of-the-century London ghetto to one of the stage's leading actresses. Esther (Summer Phoenix) feels set apart from her large, raucous family, who are all Read More

2000
Trial by Fire

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Jim Carter, Paul Broughton, Kate Fitzgerald, Kevin Knapman

Synopsis: Originally telecast by the BBC in 1999, Trial by Fire served as the unofficial pilot film for the Helen West mystery series, based on the novels by Frances Fyfield. Moving from London to the supposed tranquility of the suburbs, prosecutor Helen West (Juliet Stevenson) and her police-chief Read More

1999
Moses

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The life of the reluctant Old Testament prophet is told in this made-for-television biblical drama. When the Pharaoh Ramses calls for the death of all Hebrew children, a mother puts her son Moses in a basket and sends him down the Nile to save his life. The baby is found by a princess and raised Read More

1996
Monsignor Quixote

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene, Alec Guinness stars as the title character, a descendent of Don Quixote. After he is appointed monsignor, he sets off with a leftist politician (played by Leo McKern) on an adventure reminiscent of the Cervantes novel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Twelfth Night

Actors: Frances Barber, Tim Barker, Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe, Julian Gartside, Christopher Hollis

Synopsis: Part of the Thames Shakespeare Collection, this production of Twelfth Night was adapted for television by renowned actor and director Kenneth Branagh in 1988. Performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company, this classic comic tale of romance and confused identities features performances by acclaimed Read More

1987
Airbase

Actors: Anton Lesser, Clive Mantle, Catherine Russell, David Lansbury, Norman Beaton

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1960s British TV series of the same title, the BBC one-off drama Airbase nonetheless shares the same WWII trappings. The scene is an underground hangar in England, where a USAF bomber crew is billeted for the duration. Their movements severely limited by the exigencies Read More

1987
The Assam Garden

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alec McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Anton Lesser

Synopsis: An embittered, lonely old widow reluctantly tends her late husband's garden and discovers that more than flowers can bloom there when she encounters her East Indian neighbor, a woman with an ailing husband. This touching drama chronicles their friendship. The story opens as the widow returns from Read More

1985
Sakharov

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay, Marion Bailey

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Sakharov stars Jason Robards as famed Soviet nuclear physicist D. Andrei Sakharov. Lauded by his government for his scientific achievements, Sakharov nonetheless becomes an outspoken critic of Russia's human rights violations. He is reclassified as a "non-person" and exiled to the Read More

1984
King Lear

Actors: Michael Hordern, Anton Lesser

1983
Good and Bad at Games

Actors: Anton Lesser, Dominic Jephcott

Synopsis: The misbehavior of a group of young men away at school seems to be indicative of what is waiting for them when they "grow up," in this slightly far-fetched account of then and now in the British upper classes. In 1973, the young men barely associate with Quentin (Martyn Stanbridge) because his Read More

1983
The Missionary

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission Read More

1982
Troilus & Cressida

Actors: Anton Lesser, Suzanne Burden

Synopsis: The Greeks laid siege to the city of Troy after Paris (David Firth) of Troy abducted the beautiful Helen (Ann Pennington) from Sparta. In the city, Troilus (Anton Lesser), brother of Paris, is courting the lovely Cressida (Suzanne Burden), who is playing hard to get so that his interest will be Read More

1982