Anthony Calf

Anthony Calf (born 4 May 1959 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actor. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He has recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of The Madness of George III with the National Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The false servant at the National Theatre and Rock’n Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre. He has been nominated as best actor in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008 for his work in Uncle Vanya at the Gate Theatre. He was featured in King Charles III on Broadway in 2015.

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• To a skylark by shelley read by anthony calf
• Selected film television and theatre roles
• References

He made his television debut in the 1982 Doctor Who episode "The Visitation". In the same year, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of Beau Geste. His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in My Family and Other Animals, Pip in Great Expectations and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. He has also appeared in episodes of Doc Martin, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Poirot.

In 2010 Calf played the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the BBC's revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, reprising his stage role as Eden (twenty years older as Prime Minister at the time of Suez) in Howard Brenton's Never So Good (2008).

He is married to the actress Caroline Harker, with whom he has three daughters: Louise Emma Calf (b. December 1983), Cecilia Ann L Calf (b. September 1995), and Anemone Georgiana Calf (b. October 2000).

Selected film television and theatre roles

Television credits include:

Midsomer Murders (2016) – as Julian Lennard

Dracula (2013) – as Dr William Murray

New Tricks (2005–2015) – as DAC Robert Strickland

Restless (2012) – as Gerald Laird

Call the Midwife (2012) – as Mr. Tracey

Upstairs Downstairs (2011) – as Anthony Eden

Identity (2010) – as Max

Lewis (2010) – as Malcom Finneston

Material Girl (2010) – as Anthony Chatsworth

Trinity (2009) – as Lord Ravensby

Doc Martin (2009) – as Richard Wenn

Mistresses (2008) – as John

Dalziel and Pascoe (2007) – as Joe Furst

The Good Samaritan (2007) – as Michael Ambley

Holby City (2005–2006) – as Michael Beauchamp

Tom’s Christmas Tree (2006) – Officer

The Impressionists (2006) – as Émile Zola

Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006) – as Frederick, Duke of York

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2006) – as Bryan Charles Walker

The Robinsons (2005) – as Peter

Amnesia (2004) – as John Deen

The Murder Room (2004) – as Lord Martlesham

Indian Dream (2003) – as David

The Brides in the Bath (2003) – as Howard Munday

Judge John Deed, 2 episodes (2003) – as James Brooklands

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie (2003) – as Tim Bowden

Lucky Jim (2003) – as Cecil Goldsmith

Sirens (2002) – as Anthony Soames

Foyle's War, 1 episode (2002) – as Wing Commander Martin Keller

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance – as Simon St James

Lorna Doone (2000) – as Tom Faggus

Midsomer Murders, Dead Man's 11 (1999) – as Stephen Cavendish

Our Mutual Friend (1998) – as Alfred Lammle

Kavanagh QC, Mute of Malice (1997) – as Miles Beddoes

A Touch of Frost, True Confessions (1997) – as James Barr

Pride and Prejudice (1995) – as Col. Fitzwilliam

Bramwell (1995) – as Andrew Armstrong

Riders (1993) - as Billy Lloyd-Foxe

"Agatha Christie's Poirot -The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990) – Lawrence Cavendish

Great Expectations (1989) – as Pip

Tanamera - Lion of Singapore (1989) – as Tim Dexter

My Family and Other Animals as Lawrence Durrell

Fortunes of War (1987) – as Cpl. Arnold

Beau Geste (1982) – as Digby Geste

Doctor Who, The Visitation (1982) – as Charles

Film credits include:

The Children Act (2017) - as Mark Berner

The Man Who knew Infinity (2015) - as Howard

Straightheads (2007) – as Heffer

Dead Cool (2004) – as Mark

Fairy Tale: a True Story (1997) – as Hodson

A woman of the North (1997) – as Hugo

Anna Karenina (1997) – as Serpuliovskoy

The Madness of King George (1994) – as Fitzroy

Great Expectations (1989) as Pip

Oxford Blues (1984) – as Gareth Rycroft

Theatre credits include:

Twelfth Night (2017) - as Malvolio at the Royal Exchange, Manchester

Stephen Ward the Musical (2013–2014)

Private Lives (2013)

My Fair Lady (2012–2013)

Private Lives (2012)

Death and the Maiden (2011)

The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

Les Parents Terribles (2011)

The White Guard (2010)

The Power of Yes (2009–2010)

Wallenstein (play) (2009)

Gethsemane (play) (2008–2009)

Never So Good (play) (2008)

Uncle Vanya (2007)

Rock’n Roll (2006)

The False Servant (2005)

The Hotel in Amsterdam (2003)

A Buyer’s Market (2002)

Cressida (2000)

Dolly West’s Kitchen (2000)

Betrayal (1998)

Neverland

Cracked

Rebecca

My Night with Reg

The Madness of George III

Green Fingers

Another Country

Filumena

She Stoops to Conquer

The Boy Friend

A Midsummer Night’s Dream