Anthony Calf


Anthony Calf is an English actor. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He had recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as DAC Robert Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of The Madness of George III with the National Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The false servant at the National Theatre and Rock'n Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre. He was nominated as best actor in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008 for his work in Uncle Vanya at the Gate Theatre. He was featured in King Charles III on Broadway in 2015.

Career

He made his television debut in the 1982 Doctor Who episode The Visitation, he returned to the series 35 years later in the 2017 episode "Empress of Mars". Also in 1982, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of Beau Geste. His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in My Family and Other Animals, Pip in Great Expectations and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as well as Tom Faggus in the BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone. He has also appeared in episodes of Doc Martin, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Poirot.
In 2010, Calf played the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the BBC's revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, reprising his stage role as Eden in Howard Brenton's Never So Good. In 2019 he played William Wickham, founder of the British foreign secret service, in some episodes of Poldark, series 5.

Personal life

He is married to the actress Caroline Harker, with whom he has three daughters.

Selected filmography

Television

  • Partygate as Sir Mark Sedwill
  • Death in Paradise:Christmas Special as Phillip Carlton
  • Poldark as William Wickham
  • King Lear as Duke of Albany
  • Midsomer Murders "The Village That Rose From The Dead" as Julian Lennard
  • Dracula as Dr William Murray
  • New Tricks as DAC Robert Strickland
  • Restless as Gerald Laird
  • Call the Midwife as Mr. Tracey
  • Upstairs Downstairs as Anthony Eden
  • Identity as Max
  • Lewis as Malcom Finneston
  • Material Girl as Anthony Chatsworth
  • Trinity as Lord Ravensby
  • Doc Martin as Richard Wenn
  • Mistresses as John
  • Dalziel and Pascoe as Joe Furst
  • The Good Samaritan as Michael Ambley
  • Holby City as Michael Beauchamp
  • Tom's Christmas Tree as Officer
  • The Impressionists as Émile Zola
  • Beau Brummell: This Charming Man as Frederick, Duke of York
  • The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Bryan Charles Walker
  • The Robinsons as Peter
  • Amnesia as John Deen
  • The Murder Room as Lord Martlesham
  • Indian Dream as David
  • The Brides in the Bath as Howard Munday
  • Judge John Deed, 2 episodes as James Brooklands
  • Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie as Tim Bowden
  • Lucky Jim as Cecil Goldsmith
  • Sirens as Anthony Soames
  • Foyle's War, 1 episode as Wing Commander Martin Keller
  • The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance as Simon St James
  • Lorna Doone as Tom Faggus
  • Midsomer Murders "Dead Man's Eleven" as Stephen Cavendish
  • Our Mutual Friend as Alfred Lammle
  • Kavanagh QC, Mute of Malice as Miles Beddoes
  • A Touch of Frost, True Confessions as James Barr
  • Pride and Prejudice TV miniseries as Colonel Fitzwilliam
  • Bramwell as Andrew Armstrong
  • Riders as Billy Lloyd-Foxe
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot – The Mysterious Affair at Styles as Lawrence Cavendish
  • Great Expectations TV miniseries as Pip
  • Tanamera - Lion of Singapore as Tim Dexter
  • My Family and Other Animals as Lawrence Durrell
  • Fortunes of War as Cpl. Arnold
  • Beau Geste as Digby Geste
  • Doctor Who, The Visitation as Charles

    Film

  • The Children Act as Mark Berner
  • The Man Who knew Infinity as Howard
  • Straightheads as Heffer
  • Dead Cool as Mark
  • Fairy Tale: a True Story as Hodson
  • A Woman of the North as Hugo
  • Anna Karenina as Serpuliovskoy
  • My Night With Reg as John
  • The Madness of King George as Fitzroy
  • Great Expectations as Pip
  • Oxford Blues as Gareth Rycroft

    Theatre

  • Twelfth Night as Malvolio at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
  • The Hard Problem
  • Stephen Ward the Musical
  • Private Lives
  • My Fair Lady
  • Private Lives
  • Death and the Maiden
  • The Deep Blue Sea
  • Les Parents Terribles
  • The White Guard
  • The Power of Yes
  • Wallenstein
  • Gethsemane
  • Never So Good
  • Uncle Vanya
  • Rock'n Roll
  • The False Servant
  • The Hotel in Amsterdam
  • A Buyer's Market
  • Cressida
  • Dolly West's Kitchen
  • Betrayal
  • Neverland
  • Cracked
  • My Night with Reg
  • The Madness of George III
  • Green Fingers
  • Another Country
  • Filumena
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • The Boy Friend
  • ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''