Anthony Calf

Acting

Born May 4, 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Anthony Calf (born 4 May 1959) is an English actor with an extensive career across theatre, television, and film. Born in 1950s London, he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) before making his professional screen debut in the early 1980s. Calf is widely recognized for his roles in prominent period dramas and feature films, including Great Expectations (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), Anna Karenina (1997), and The Children Act (2017). On television, his notable credits include Pride and Prejudice (1995) and New Tricks. In addition to his screen work, Calf has maintained a distinguished career in British theatre, performing regularly with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Filmography

• 2026De Gaulle: Liberté — Spears
• 2026De Gaulle: Résistance — Spears
• 2025A Teacher's Gift — Charles
• One Day — Sid
• 2023Partygate — Sir Mark Sidwell
• 2023Sisi & I — Earl Spencer
• The Buccaneers — Lord Brightlingsea
• The Gold — Michael Corkery QC
• Anne — Bishop James Jones KBE
• 2022I Came By — Superintendent William Roy
• SAS Rogue Heroes — Stirling's Father
• Suspicion — Professor Dean
• 2018King Lear — Duke of Albany
• 2018The Children Act — Mark Berner
• Power Monkeys — Tony
• The Crown — Royal Photographer
• 2016The Man Who Knew Infinity — Howard
• 2015National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem — Jerry
• Poldark — William Wickham
• Dracula — Dr William Murray
• 2013Private Lives — Victor Prynne
• Call the Midwife — Aubrey Tracey
• Restless — Gerald Laird
• Identity
• Upstairs Downstairs — Anthony Eden
• Trinity — Lord Ravensby
• Mistresses — John Grey
• Lewis — Malcolm Finniston
• 2007Straightheads — Heffer
• 2006Beau Brummell: This Charming Man — Duke of York
• 2006Perfect Day: The Millennium — Michael
• The Impressionists — Emile Zola
• 2005Dead Cool — Mark
• Doctor Who — Godsacre
• The Robinsons — Peter
• 2005The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle — Bryan Charles Walker
• Amnesia — John Dean
• New Tricks — Robert Strickland
• 2004The Hotel In Amsterdam — Gus
• 2003Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie — Tim Bowden
• 2003Lucky Jim — Cecil Goldsmith
• 2003The Brides in the Bath — Howard Munday
• Trust — Mark Hanrahan
• Foyle's War — Martin Keller
• Sirens — Anthony Soames
• The Cry — Simon Bartlett
• 2002The Falklands Play — Robin Fearn (Head of Falkland Islands Department, Foreign Office)
• Judge John Deed — James Brooklands
• 2001Lorna Doone — Tom Faggus
• Lorna Doone — Tom Faggus
• 1999A Woman of the North — Hugo Aylva
• Our Mutual Friend — Alfred Lammle
• 1997Anna Karenina — Serpuliovskoy
• 1997FairyTale: A True Story — Geoffrey Hodson
• Midsomer Murders — Stephen Cavendish, Julian Lennard
• 1997My Night with Reg — John
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Joe Furst
• Bramwell — Andrew Armstrong
• Kavanagh Q.C. — Miles Beddoes
• Pride and Prejudice — Colonel Fitzwilliam
• 1994The Madness of King George — Fitzroy
• 1993Riders — Billy Lloyd-Foxe
• A Touch of Frost — James Barr
• 1991Absolute Hell — Douglas Eden
• I Misteri Della Giungla Nera — Richard
• Performance — John
• 4 Play — Jonathan Knight
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Lawrence Cavendish
• Great Expectations — Pip
• Fortunes of War — Corporal Arnold
• 1987Mary Rose — Simon
• My Family and Other Animals — Larry Durrell
• 1986The Fools on the Hill — Leslie Mitchell
• Drummonds — Charles Drummond
• Love and Marriage — Richard
• 1984Oxford Blues — Gareth Rycroft
• 1984To Catch a King — Butterfly Man
• Chessgame — Dan Maclachlan
• Beau Geste — Digby Geste, Bugler
• 1982Doctor Who: The Visitation — Charles
• Doctor Who — Charles