Welsh actor, producer, director and writer Anthony Hopkins has been acting since 1960. Between then and the 1970s, he appeared in the films The Lion in Winter (1968), Hamlet (1969), Young Winston (1972), Audrey Rose (1977) and playing Col. Frost in A Bridge Too Far (1977). In the 1980s, he had a starring role in the 1980 film The Elephant Man as Dr. Frederick Treves, opposite John Hurt and in the 1987 film 84 Charing Cross Road with Anne Bancroft.
In 1991, he was cast in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs with Jodie Foster, a role he played again in Hannibal (2001) and the prequel Red Dragon (2002). For his role in The Silence of the Lambs, he won an Academy Award and BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor. Other notable roles he had during the 1990s were Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman (1992), Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. (1992), The Remains of the Day with Emma Thompson (1993), Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt (1994), The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas (1998), and Meet Joe Black again with Pitt (1998).
The 2000s saw him in the films The World's Fastest Indian (2005), Fracture (2007), The Wolfman (2010), and The Rite (2011). In 2011 he co-starred with Chris Hemsworth as the Norse God Odin in the Marvel Studios film Thor (2011), then again for its 2013 sequel and the third film in 2017. Also in 2017, Hopkins played the role of Sir Edmund Burton, the last living member of the Order of the Witwiccans, in Transformers: The Last Knight .
Hopkins has had numerous roles where he plays real life people including Richard Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), C. S. "Jack" Lewis in Shadowlands (1993), Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville (1994), Richard Nixon in Nixon (1995), Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso (1996), John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997), Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012), and Pope Benedict XVI in The Two Popes (2019). For his roles in Nixon and Amistad he was nominated for an Academy Award.
His television work includes appearances in QB VII (1974), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), Hollywood Wives (1985), and Great Expectations (1991). In 2015, he starred in the BBC television film The Dresser , and from 2016 to 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld .
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Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Refs. |
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1965 | The Man in Room 17 | Dr. Harding | Episode: "A Minor Operation" | |
1967 | A Flea in Her Ear | Etienne Plucheux | Television film | |
1969 | Department S | Greg Halliday | Episode: "A Small War of Nerves" | |
ITV Sunday Night Drama | Arnold | Episode: "A Walk Through the Forest" | ||
1970 | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | Charles Dickens | Television film | |
Danton | Georges Danton | |||
Play of the Month | Astrov | Episode: "Uncle Vanya" | ||
1970, 1974 | Play for Today | Bob / Alexander Tashkov | 2 episodes | |
1971 | Great Performances | Theo Gunge | Episode: "The Arcata Promise" | |
1972–1973 | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 17 episodes | |
1972 | Poet Game | Hugh Sanders | Television film | |
1973 | The Edwardians | David Lloyd George | Television miniseries; episode "Lloyd George" | |
Black and Blue | Hi | Episode: "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family" | ||
1974 | QB VII | Dr. Adam Kelno | 3 episodes | |
Possessions | Dando | Television film | ||
1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | ||
1976 | Dark Victory | Dr. Michael Grant | ||
1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Hauptmann | ||
1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | ||
1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | Captain Christopher Jones | ||
1981 | The Bunker | Adolf Hitler | ||
Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | |||
Othello | Othello | |||
1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | ||
1983 | A Married Man | John Strickland | 4 episodes | |
1984 | Strangers and Brothers | Roger Quaife | 2 episodes | |
Arch of Triumph | Dr. Ravic | Television film | ||
1985 | Hollywood Wives | Neil Gray | 3 episodes | |
Guilty Conscience | Arthur Jamison | Television film | ||
Mussolini and I | Count Galeazzo Ciano | |||
1987, 1993 | Screen Two | Guy Burgess / Unnamed role | 2 episodes | |
1988 | Across the Lake | Donald Campbell | Television film | |
The Tenth Man | Jean Louis Chavel | |||
1989 | Heartland | Jack | The Play on One BBC series episode | |
Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 4 episodes | ||
1991 | One Man's War | Joel Filártiga | Television film | |
To Be the Best | Jack Figg | |||
1993 | Selected Exits | Gwyn Thomas | ||
2007 | American Masters | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" | |
2015 | The Dresser | Sir | Television film | |
2016–2018 | Westworld | Dr. Robert Ford | 17 episodes | [52] |
2018 | King Lear | Lear | Television film | [3] |
2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Everlight" | |
2024 | Those About to Die | Vespasian | 7 episodes | [53] [54] |
† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Artist | Refs. |
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2016 | "I Forgive It All" | Mudcrutch | [56] |
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