Birthday
1949/06/14
Day of death
2021/12/03 (72 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cape Town, South Africa
Also know as
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Sir Antony Sher, KBE (born 14 June 1949) was an English actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. He died of cancer on 3rd December 2021.
(2008) God on Trial
as Akiba
(1999) Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as Colonel Moncoutant
(2008) Three and Out
as Maurice
(1996) The Wind in the Willows
as Chief Weasel
(1997) Mrs Brown
as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
(2007) Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2012) Dickens in London
as Older Dickens(Voice)
(2003) Home
as Gerald Ballantyne
(2001) Macbeth
as Macbeth
(2005) Primo
as Primo Levi
(1996) The Moonstone
as Sergeant Cuff
(1996) Alive and Kicking
as Jack
(1985) Shadey
as Oliver Shadey
(1993) Genghis Cohn
as Genghis Cohn
(1989) Erik the Viking
as Loki
(2015) War Book
as David
(1992) The Crying Game
as Scum Editor
(1999) The Winter's Tale
as Leontes
(2004) Churchill: The Hollywood Years
as Hitler
(2015) Antony Sher and Greg Doran in Conversation with Sue MacGregor
as Himself
(1978) Cold Harbour
as Morris
(1979) One Fine Day
as Mr. Alpert
(1990) The Land of Dreams
as David Samuels
(2015) Shylock's Ghost
as Self
(1979) Yanks
as GI at Cinema
(2016) Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self
(1980) Superman II
as Bell Boy
(2015) RSC Live: Henry IV Part 1
as Sir John Falstaff
(2015) RSC Live: Henry IV Part 2
as Sir John Falstaff
(1982) Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self
(2000) The Miracle Maker
as Ben Azra (voice)
(1995) The Young Poisoner's Handbook
as Dr. Ernest Zeigler
(1983) Tartuffe, or The Imposter
as Tartuffe
(2017) Queer as Art
as Self
(2010) The Wolfman
as Dr. Hoenneger
(1998) Shakespeare in Love
as Dr. Moth
(2012) Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
(2012) National Theatre Live: Travelling Light
as Jacob Bindel
(2016) RSC Live: King Lear
as King Lear
(2017) Joe Orton Laid Bare
as Ensemble Cast
(1979) The Out of Town Boys
as Nathan
(1990) Changing Step
as Capt. Edmund Lambert
(1993) Camp Christmas
as ---
(2007) The Company
as Ezra ben Ezra, the Rabbi
(2001) Murphy's Law
as ---
(1998) Hornblower
as Marquis de Moncoutant
(2011) The Shadow Line
as Peter Glickman
(2003) In Search of Shakespeare
as Self
(1987) The Dame Edna Experience
as Self
(2002) The Jury
as Gerald Lewis QC
(1990) One Foot In the Grave
as ---
(1981) The History Man
as Howard Kirk
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Richard (voice)
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Rafiel
(1988) The Play on One
as Captain Edmund Lambert
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Scum Editor