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, who was the last living member of the Order of 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 .
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Refs. |
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1967 | The White Bus | Brechtian | Short film | [1] |
1968 | The Lion in Winter | Richard | [2] | |
1969 | Hamlet | Claudius | [3] | |
1970 | The Looking Glass War | Avery | [4] | |
1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Philip Calvert | [5] | |
1972 | Young Winston | David Lloyd George | [6] | |
1973 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | [7] | |
1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Kostya | [8] | |
1974 | Juggernaut | Supt. John McCleod | [9] | |
1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lieutenant Colonel Frost | [10] | |
1977 | Audrey Rose | Elliot Hoover | [11] | |
1978 | Magic | Corky / Voice of Fats | [12] | |
1978 | International Velvet | Captain Johnson | [13] | |
1980 | The Elephant Man | Frederick Treves | [14] | |
1980 | A Change of Seasons | Adam Evans | [15] | |
1984 | The Bounty | Lt. William Bligh | [16] | |
1985 | The Good Father | Bill Hooper | [17] | |
1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank Doel | [18] | |
1988 | The Dawning | Maj. Angus "Cassuis" Barry | [19] | |
1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Dafydd Ap Llewellyn | [20] | |
1990 | Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell | [21] | |
1990 | Dylan Thomas: Return Journey | Introducer | Also director | [22] |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | [23] | |
1992 | Freejack | Ian McCandless | ||
1992 | Spotswood | Errol Wallace | ||
1992 | Howards End | Henry J. Wilcox | ||
1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing | ||
1992 | Chaplin | George Hayden | ||
1993 | The Trial | The Priest | ||
1993 | The Innocent | Bob Glass | ||
1993 | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | ||
1993 | Shadowlands | C. S. "Jack" Lewis | ||
1994 | The Road to Wellville | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg | ||
1994 | Legends of the Fall | Col. William Ludlow | ||
1995 | Nixon | Richard Nixon | ||
1996 | August | Ieuan Davies | Also director | |
1996 | Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | ||
1997 | The Edge | Charles Morse | ||
1997 | Amistad | John Quincy Adams | ||
1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro | ||
1998 | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | ||
1999 | Instinct | Dr. Ethan Powell | ||
1999 | Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator | ||
1999 | Titus | Titus Andronicus | ||
2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Commander Swanbeck | Uncredited cameo | |
2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | The Narrator | ||
2001 | Hannibal | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | [23] | |
2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan | ||
2002 | Bad Company | Officer Gaylord Oakes | ||
2002 | Red Dragon | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | [24] | |
2003 | The Human Stain | Coleman Silk | ||
2004 | Alexander | Ptolemy I Soter | ||
2005 | Proof | Robert | ||
2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro | ||
2006 | Bobby | John | Also executive producer | |
2006 | All the King's Men | Judge Irwin | ||
2007 | Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster | ||
2007 | Slipstream | Felix Bonhoeffer | Also director and writer | |
2007 | Fracture | Theodore "Ted" Crawford | ||
2007 | Beowulf | Hrothgar | Motion capture | |
2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story | Narrator | Documentary | |
2008 | Immutable Dream of Snow Lion | N/A | Short film | |
2009 | The City of Your Final Destination | Adam Gund | ||
2010 | The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot | ||
2010 | The Third Rule | Fabian Hogarth | Short film | |
2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie Shepridge | ||
2011 | The Rite | Father Lucas | ||
2011 | Thor | Odin | ||
2011 | 360 | John | ||
2012 | Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
2013 | Red 2 | Edward Bailey | ||
2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Odin | ||
2014 | Noah | Methuselah | ||
2015 | Kidnapping Freddy Heineken | Freddy Heineken | [25] | |
2015 | Solace | John Clancy | Also executive producer | [26] |
2015 | Blackway | Lester | Also producer | [27] |
2016 | Misconduct | Arthur Denning | [28] | |
2016 | Collide | Hagen Kahl | [29] | |
2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton | [30] | |
2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Odin | [31] | |
2019 | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI | [32] | |
2019 | Where Are You | Thomas Yorke | [33] [34] | |
2020 | The Father | Anthony Evans | [35] | |
2020 | Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis | Also producer and composer | [36] [37] |
2021 | The Virtuoso | The Mentor | [38] | |
2021 | Zero Contact | Finley Hart | [39] | |
2022 | Armageddon Time | Aaron Rabinowitz | [40] | |
2022 | The Son | Anthony Miller | [41] | |
2023 | One Life | Nicholas Winton | [42] | |
2023 | Freud's Last Session | Sigmund Freud | [43] | |
2023 | Rebel Moon | Jimmy (voice) | [44] | |
2024 | Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver | Post-production |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
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" | |
1969 | ITV Sunday Night Drama | Arnold | Episode: "A Walk Through the Forest" | |
1970 | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | Charles Dickens | Television film | |
1970 | Danton | Georges Danton | Television film | |
1970 | 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" | |
1973 | Black and Blue | Hi | Episode: "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family" | |
1974 | QB VII | Dr. Adam Kelno | 3 episodes | |
1974 | Possessions | Dando | Television film | |
1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | Television film | |
1976 | Dark Victory | Dr. Michael Grant | Television film | |
1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Hauptmann | Television film | |
1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | Television film | |
1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | Captain Christopher Jones | Television film | |
1981 | The Bunker | Adolf Hitler | Television film | |
1981 | Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | Television film | |
1981 | Othello | Othello | Television film | |
1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | Television film | |
1983 | A Married Man | John Strickland | 4 episodes | |
1984 | Strangers and Brothers | Roger Quaife | 2 episodes | |
1984 | Arch of Triumph | Dr. Ravic | Television film | |
1985 | Hollywood Wives | Neil Gray | 3 episodes | |
1985 | Guilty Conscience | Arthur Jamison | Television film | |
1985 | Mussolini and I | Count Galeazzo Ciano | Television film | |
1987, 1993 | Screen Two | Guy Burgess / Unnamed role | 2 episodes | |
1988 | Across the Lake | Donald Campbell | Television film | |
1988 | The Tenth Man | Jean Louis Chavel | Television film | |
1989 | Heartland | Jack | The Play on One BBC series episode | |
1989 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 4 episodes | |
1991 | One Man's War | Joel Filártiga | Television film | |
1991 | To Be the Best | Jack Figg | Television film | |
1993 | Selected Exits | Gwyn Thomas | Television film | |
2007 | American Masters | Narrator | Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" | |
2015 | The Dresser | Sir | Television film | |
2016–2018 | Westworld | Dr. Robert Ford | 17 episodes | [45] |
2018 | King Lear | Lear | Television film | [3] |
2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator | Episode: "Everlight" | |
2024 | Those About to Die † | Vespasian | Upcoming series | [46] [47] |
† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Artist | Refs. |
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2016 | "I Forgive It All" | Mudcrutch | [49] |
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor. One of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2008. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 1993.
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The film also features performances from Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, and Kasi Lemmons.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character created by the American novelist Thomas Harris. Lecter is a serial killer who eats his victims. Before his capture, he was a respected forensic psychiatrist; after his incarceration, he is consulted by FBI agents Will Graham and Clarice Starling to help them find other serial killers.
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Red Dragon is a 2002 psychological thriller film based on the 1981 novel by Thomas Harris. It was directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally. It is the third film of the Dino De Laurentiis Company production, last produced by Universal Pictures, and last starred by actor Anthony Hopkins. It follows The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001) as a prequel, being followed by Hannibal Rising (2007). The film sees FBI agent Will Graham enlisting the help of serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch another killer, Francis Dolarhyde. Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker, and Philip Seymour Hoffman also star.
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