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3Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948 in Finchley, London) is an English actor who has starred in a wide range of roles such as heroic fop [[AgentPeacock Sir Percy Blakeney]] in ''Film/TheScarletPimpernel1982'', the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' (2010) and eccentric [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] aristocrat Lord Sebastian Flyte in Creator/{{ITV}}'s 1981 adaptation of ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' (which won him a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe and a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}). He has also played villains including Literature/SherlockHolmes's [[EvilCounterpart nemesis]] Professor Moriarty in the 1990 film ''Hands of a Murderer'' and Robert Louis Stevenson's classic double character [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde]] in the 1989 Nightmare Classics adaptation of the novel.
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5Some of his other film and TV roles include Wilfred of Ivanhoe in a 1982 adaption of Sir Walter Scott's ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'', Hugh Firmin in ''Literature/UnderTheVolcano'' (1984), Robert Marriell in ''Haunted'' (1995), and bomb disposal expert Brian Ash in ITV's 1979 series ''Series/DangerUXB''. He is also a stage actor.

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