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Antony Sher

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cape Town, South Africa, 1949-06-14

Died: 2021-12-03

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	Cold Harbour	Morris	0
2	1979	The Out of Town Boys	Nathan	0
3	1979	One Fine Day	Mr. Alpert	20
4	1979	Yanks	GI at Cinema	59
5	1980	Superman II	Bell Boy	67
6	1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self	80
7	1983	Tartuffe, or The Imposter	Tartuffe	0
8	1985	Shadey	Oliver Shadey	44
9	1989	Erik the Viking	Loki	59
10	1990	Changing Step	Capt. Edmund Lambert	0
11	1990	The Land of Dreams	David Samuels	0
12	1992	The Crying Game	Scum Editor	0
13	1993	Genghis Cohn	Genghis Cohn	45
14	1993	Camp Christmas		35
15	1995	The Young Poisoner's Handbook	Dr. Ernest Zeigler	66
16	1996	The Wind in the Willows	Chief Weasel	56
17	1996	Alive and Kicking	Jack	49
18	1996	The Moonstone	Sergeant Cuff	70
19	1997	Mrs Brown	Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli	68
20	1998	Shakespeare in Love	Dr. Moth	69
21	1999	Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters	Colonel Moncoutant	72
22	1999	The Winter's Tale	Leontes	70
23	2000	The Miracle Maker	Ben Azra (voice)	59
24	2001	Macbeth	Macbeth	66
25	2003	Home	Gerald Ballantyne	69
26	2004	Churchill: The Hollywood Years	Hitler	52
27	2005	Primo	Primo Levi	68
28	2007	Hitler: The Comedy Years	Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
29	2008	Three and Out	Maurice	56
30	2008	God on Trial	Akiba	68
31	2010	The Wolfman	Dr. Hoenneger	59
32	2012	Dickens in London	Older Dickens(Voice)	80
33	2012	National Theatre Live: Travelling Light	Jacob Bindel	0
34	2012	Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard	Self	0
35	2015	RSC Live: Henry IV Part 2	Sir John Falstaff	0
36	2015	RSC Live: Henry IV Part 1	Sir John Falstaff	0
37	2015	War Book	David	51
38	2015	Shylock's Ghost	Self	0
39	2015	Antony Sher and Greg Doran in Conversation with Sue MacGregor	Himself	0
40	2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Self	75
41	2016	RSC Live: King Lear	King Lear	80
42	2017	Queer as Art	Self	40
43	2017	Joe Orton Laid Bare	Ensemble Cast	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	The History Man	Howard Kirk	41
2	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Scum Editor	74
3	1987	The Dame Edna Experience	Self	50
4	1988	The Play on One	Captain Edmund Lambert	60
5	1990	One Foot in the Grave		76
6	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Richard (voice)	64
7	1998	Hornblower	Marquis de Moncoutant	78
8	2001	Murphy's Law		77
9	2002	The Jury	Gerald Lewis QC	64
10	2003	In Search of Shakespeare	Self	80
11	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Rafiel	77
12	2007	The Company	Ezra ben Ezra, the Rabbi	71
13	2011	The Shadow Line	Peter Glickman	77