Andrew Sachs was a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated and also as Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.

Filmography

• 2025The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
• 2016Alice Through the Looking Glass — Mantel Clock (voice)
• 2016Breaking the Bank — Jenkins
• 2012Quartet — Bobby Swanson
• 2012Run For Your Wife — Clumsy Waiter
• 2011Going Postal 2in1 — Groat
• Going Postal — Groat
• All Star Mr & Mrs
• 2006Ant Attack — Narrator
• 2006Mr. Loveday's Little Outing — Mr. Loveday
• 2005Benjamin's Struggle
• Egypt — Narrator
• 2003Cheeky — TV Announcer
• 2003Doctor Who: Shada — Skagra (voice)
• Looking for Victoria — Benjamin Disraeli
• Walking with Cavemen — Narrator
• 2001Nowhere in Africa — Mr. Rubens
• Attachments — Murray Plaskow
• Little Grey Rabbit
• That Peter Kay Thing
• Jack of Hearts — Peter Pryce
• 1999The Amazing World of Wallace & Gromit — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Dead Clean — Kostas Malmatakis
• Star Hill Ponies — Various Characters (voice)
• The Legend of the Lost Keys — George Gardener
• 1997Einstein Revealed — Albert Einstein
• 1997Eyewitness: Monster — Narrator (voice)
• Incredible Journeys
• 1997Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years — Presenter
• The Forgotten Toys — Additional Voices (voice)
• 1996Albert Speer: The Nazi Who Said Sorry — Narrator (voice)
• Silent Witness — Josef Horowitz
• 1996Taxandria — André / Superintendent
• 1995Character Building — Narrator (voice)
• Eyewitness — Narrator
• 1995The Forgotten Toys — Chef / Old Man (voice)
• Pirates
• William's Wish Wellingtons — Narrator
• Every Silver Lining
• The Mushroom Picker — Tadeus
• 1993The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Durdles
• The Gingerbread Man — The Gingerbread Man / Mr Salt / Herr Von Cuckoo / Sleek the Mouse
• 1989Interviewers From Hell
• 1988Consuming Passions — Jason
• Supersense — Narrator
• 1987Spirits of the Forest — Narrator
• Architecture at the Crossroads — Narrator - (Voice)
• Artists and Models — Delécluze (voice)
• Casualty — Father Morgan, Mendel Lan
• 1985The Galactic Garden — Vector, Writer
• There Comes A Time...
• Big Deal — MC
• Tom O'Connor
• Countdown
• Dead Ernest
• 1982It's Your Move — Roadsweeper
• 1981History of the World: Part I — Gerard - The French Revolution
• 1980The Tempest — Trinculo
• Minder — Sidney
• Monkey — Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung
• 1978Revenge of the Pink Panther — Hospital Inmate
• Send in the Girls — Paul
• Strangers — Conron
• 1977Are You Being Served? The Movie — Carlos
• The Sound of Laughter — Brian Jones
• 1977What's Up Nurse — Guido
• 1976House of Mortal Sin — Man in Church
• 1976James and the Giant Peach — Interviewer / 1st Naval Officer / Security Chief
• Fawlty Towers — Manuel
• 1975Robin Hood Junior — Friar
• 1974Gorilla — Narrator
• Rising Damp — Snell
• 1974Romance with a Double Bass — Musician Zhuchkov
• 1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days — Walter Wagner
• Crown Court — Jeremy Nisbett
• 1971Quest for Love — TV Announcer (uncredited)
• Codename — Stein
• 1968If Only the Trains Came — Sergei Sergeich
• Nearest and Dearest — Doctor
• 1968Number Ten — Nigel Fenn
• Callan — German Captain
• ITV Playhouse — Nigel Fenn, Sergei Sergeich, Morris Harper
• Legend of Death — Dr. Zemouron
• Espionage — German Sergeant
• 1963We Joined the Navy — Short-Changed US Seaman
• Dial RIX — Harry Daisy, Thin Furniture Man
• The Saint — Jacques
• 1961Nothing Barred — Convict
• Survival
• Coronation Street — Ramsay Clegg
• 1959The Night We Dropped a Clanger — A.C. 2 Briggs
• 1947Hue and Cry — Schoolboy (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2009Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened — Self / Manuel
• 2008We Are Most Amused — Self
• 2007What the Pythons Did Next... — Self
• 2005Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World — Self - Narrator
• 2005Fawlty Towers Revisited — Himself
• 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy — Self
• The Dream Machine — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Cluedo — Himself
• Under the Sun — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1988Supersense — Self - Narrator
• This Morning — Self
• Natural World — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Timewatch — Self - Narrator (voice)
• An Audience with... — Self