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Anthony 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 Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in The King's Speech (2010) and eccentric alcoholic aristocrat Lord Sebastian Flyte in ITV's 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (which won him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA). He has also played villains including Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in the 1990 film Hands of a Murderer and Robert Louis Stevenson's classic double character Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde in the 1989 Nightmare Classics adaptation of the novel.

Some of his other film and TV roles include Wilfred of Ivanhoe in a 1982 adaption of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Hugh Firmin in Under the Volcano (1984), Robert Marriell in Haunted (1995), and bomb disposal expert Brian Ash in ITV's 1979 series Danger: UXB. He is also a stage actor.


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