Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is an English actor.
Background
Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School in Moseley, Birmingham and the University of Liverpool before going to RADA in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.
As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) he has played a considerable number of Shakespeare's great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter's Tale) and Richard III.
Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens, and his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. For two months in 2013, Lesser was heard as a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- The Great Poets released: 2008
The Great Poets
Released 2008- Introduction
- From The Prologue - In Middle English
- From The Prologue - A Knight There Was, And That Noble Man
- Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
- When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time
- When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
- When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
- Death Be Not Proud
- The Good Morrow
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- From Paradise Lost
- Methough I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
- The Final Chorus From Samson Agonistes
- To A Lady With The Temple Of Fame
- To T.M.S-E. In His Epistle To Mr. Pope
- The Tyger
- The Chimney Sweeper From Songs Of Innocence
- The Chimney Sweeper From Songs Of Experience
- London From Songs Of Experience
- Auld Lang Syne
- My Luv's Like A Red, Red Rose
- A Man's A Man For A' That
- Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
- From The Prelude: And In The Frosty Season
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Old Meg She Was A Gypsy
- To Sleep
- Wherein Lies Happiness?
- From The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
- From Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Because I Could Not Stop For Death
- A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree
- A Narrow Fellow In The Grass
- A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart
- I Dreaded That First Robin, So
- I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain
- The Caged Skylark
- The Windhover
- Pied Beauty
- The Sea And The Skylark
- The Self-Unseeing
- Weathers
- Great Things
- Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?
- Conclusion
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