Anthony Higgins is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actor.

Career

Higgins started to play in school theatre in England. After graduation, he studied at the school of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company. In 1967 he became a professional stage actor. He received positive reviews for his Romeo in William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

 at the Birmingham Repertory. He also worked onstage at the Coventry Theatre and the Chichester Festival in England. One of his first television appearances was a pivotal role in a 1968 episode of the TV series Journey to the Unknown

Journey to the Unknown

Journey To The Unknown was a British TV anthology series made in 1968, by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. It has a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme. It featured both British and American actors...

 with Janice Rule

Janice Rule

-Early life and career:Born in Norwood, Ohio, her career included stage, screen and television work. Rule studied ballet and began dancing in Chicago nightclubs in her teens. She soon attracted attention in Hollywood and made her film debut in 1951...

. Another television appearance was in The Strange Report (1969), with Anthony Quayle

Anthony Quayle

Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE was an English actor and director.-Early life:Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, in Lancashire to a Manx family....

.

Higgins' first successes in cinema were: A Walk with Love and Death

A Walk with Love and Death

A Walk with Love and Death is a 1969 romantic/drama film directed by John Huston.The story is based the novel by Hans Koningsberger. The film marked the screen debut of Huston's daughter Anjelica Huston...

 by John Huston

John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...

 with Angelica Huston (1969), Something for Everyone

Something for Everyone (1970 film)

Something for Everyone is a black comedy starring Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, and Jane Carr. The film was based on the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing, with the screenplay written by Hugh Wheeler...

 (1970) with Michael York

Michael York (actor)

Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...

 and Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...

, Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula is a British horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions and released in 1970. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, and was directed by Peter Sasdy...

 (1970), with Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

, and a cult movie Vampire Circus

Vampire Circus

Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins . The story concerns a travelling carnival whose vampiric artistes prey on the children of a 19th-century Austrian village...

 (1972), which was banned in Britain for a time for its hint of bestiality. In all movies and TV films of his early career, until 1975, Higgins was credited as Anthony Corlan, due to a union conflict of his name with another actor with a similar name.
Higgins showed himself to be a serious actor in Flavia, la Monaca Musulmana (1974). This was followed by a period of television and plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

, the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 and other British theatre productions. In 1976, he played a supporting role in a popular British television series, Hadleigh

Hadleigh (TV series)

Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a sequel to the writer's earlier Gazette for the same company...

. In 1977 he played the lead role in a BBC series The Eagle of the Ninth

The Eagle of the Ninth

The Eagle of the Ninth is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1954. The story is set in Roman Britain in the 2nd century AD, after the building of Hadrian's Wall....

, based on Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff CBE was a British novelist, and writer for children, best known as a writer of historical fiction and children's literature. Although she was primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults; Sutcliff herself once commented that she wrote...

's 1954 book. In 1979, he played the supporting part of Gobler in the feature film, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...

, starring Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...

 and directed by Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

. Higgins won Best Actor of 1979 from Time Out magazine for his work with The Royal Shakespeare Company that year.

Higgins played the role of Stephan in the American film production of Quartet

Quartet (1981 film)

Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins and Alan Bates, set in 1924 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Selection Officielle...

 opposite French actress Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...

 in 1981. In the same year the British director Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular...

 chose Higgins for the leading role in his breakthrough film The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film . Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694...

. In 1985 Higgins appeared as the cuckolded husband in Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope in 1959....

's Max, Mon Amour

Max, Mon Amour

Max mon amour aka Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Oshima and starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic...

 with Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

. In 1985, he acted opposite Sting in The Bride

The Bride (film)

The Bride is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, released in 1985 and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster....

, a version of Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror film, the first sequel to Frankenstein...

. In the 1980s, Higgins appeared in supporting roles in many television series such as Lace, Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story with Armand Assante

Armand Assante

-Personal life:Assante was born in New York City and raised in Cornwall, New York, the son of Katherine , a music teacher and poet, and Armand Anthony Assante, Sr., a painter and artist. His father was Italian and his mother was Irish, and was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic family...

, and Reilly, Ace of Spies

Reilly, Ace of Spies

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of...

 with Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....

. He went to Australia to play the lead as Sir Laurence Olivier in an Australian made-for-television film, Darlings of the Gods, about the time spent in Australia by Sir Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...

.

In 1991, he carried the lead role as Johann Strauss I

Johann Strauss I

Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...

, in the Austrian produced, made-for-television series, The Strauss Dynasty, which was filmed in Austria with many well-known actors and aired internationally.

Higgins has played both Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

 and Holmes' enemy Professor Moriarty

Professor Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was...

, in two different decades of his career. He was the villain in Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes is a 1985 mystery/adventure film directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus, based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

 (1985) and the consulting detective himself in Sherlock Holmes Returns

Sherlock Holmes Returns

Sherlock Holmes Returns is a 1993 American television movie about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, that stars Anthony Higgins as Holmes. It was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson.-Plot:...

 (1993). In 1993, the film Sweet Killing, a dark comedy murder story set in North America released with Higgins in the lead part.

At the end of the decade and the beginning of the new millennium, he appeared in some British television series, and in 2000, he wrote and directed his own film, "Blood Count". He commissioned distinguished jazz trumpeter, Guy Barker

Guy Barker

Guy Barker is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra...

, to compose its soundtrack.

In 2005, Higgins acted in the film Chromophobia with Ralph Fiennes and Penélope Cruz.

He played General Jacques Francois Dugommier, in 2007, in the British television series, Heroes and Villains: Napoleon. In 2009, he acted in a British-produced television episode of Lewis, Law and Order: UK, and in Marple: The Secret of Chimneys

Marple (TV series)

Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Agatha Christie's Marple. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. She was replaced...

 (scheduled to air in 2010).

Higgins is also a musician; he plays the flugelhorn

Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

.

Films

• Malice in Wonderland
  Malice in Wonderland (2009 film)
  Malice In Wonderland is a 2009 British fantasy adventure film directed by Simon Fellows and written by Jayson Rothwell. It is roughly based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The film was released on DVD in the UK on February 8, 2010....
  
   (2009) .... Rex
• Chromophobia (2005) .... Geoffrey Wharton
• The Last Minute
  The Last Minute
  The Last Minute, is a British urban gothic film, written and directed by Stephen Norrington, darkly lampooning success, failure, and the show business....
  
   (2001) .... Walsh
• Deeply
  Deeply
  Deeply is a 2000 movie directed by Sheri Elwood, starring Julia Brendler, Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst.-Synopsis:Claire McKay —having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally...
  
   (2000) .... Adm. Griggs
• Bandyta (1997)
• The Fifth Province (1997) .... Marcel
• Indian Summer
  Indian Summer (1996 film)
  Indian Summer, also known as Alive & Kicking, is a 1996 British drama film directed by Nancy Meckler, written by Martin Sherman and starring Jason Flemyng, Antony Sher and Bill Nighy. A young dancer becomes seriously ill, and finds comfort with an older man. The title comes from Indian...
  
   (1996) .... Ramon
• Nostradamus
  Nostradamus
  Michel de Nostredame , usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties , the first edition of which appeared in 1555...
  
   (1994/I) .... King Henry II
• For Love or Money (1993) .... Christian Hanover
• Sweet Killing (1993) .... Adam Crosse
• La règle du je (1992) .... Alexander
• The Bridge
  The Bridge (1992 film)
  The Bridge is a 1992 independent film based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Directed by Sydney Macartney, it stars Saskia Reeves, David O'Hara, Joss Ackland, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Higgins, and Geraldine James...
  
   (1992) .... Reginald Hetherington
• Max, Mon Amour
  Max, Mon Amour
  Max mon amour aka Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Oshima and starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic...
  
   (1986) .... Peter Jones
• Young Sherlock Holmes
  Young Sherlock Holmes
  Young Sherlock Holmes is a 1985 mystery/adventure film directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus, based on characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
  
   (1985) .... Professor Rathe (also known as Eh Tar)
• The Bride
  The Bride (film)
  The Bride is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, released in 1985 and directed by Franc Roddam. The film stars Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster....
  
   (1985/I) .... Clerval
• She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984) .... Tom
• The Draughtsman's Contract
  The Draughtsman's Contract
  The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film . Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694...
  
   (1982) .... Mr. Neville
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
  
   (1981) .... Gobler
• Quartet
  Quartet (1981 film)
  Quartet is a 1981 Merchant Ivory Film, starring Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Anthony Higgins and Alan Bates, set in 1924 Paris. It premiered at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and was an entry for the Selection Officielle...
  
   (1981) .... Stephan Zelli
• Voyage of the Damned
  Voyage of the Damned
  Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1974 book written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts, which was the basis of a 1976 drama film with the same title.The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St...
  
   (1976) .... Seaman Berg
• Flavia, la Monaca Musulmana (1974) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Ahmed
• Vampire Circus
  Vampire Circus
  Vampire Circus is a 1972 British horror film directed by Robert Young for Hammer Film Productions. It stars Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters and Anthony Higgins . The story concerns a travelling carnival whose vampiric artistes prey on the children of a 19th-century Austrian village...
  
   (1972) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Emil
• Something for Everyone
  Something for Everyone (1970 film)
  Something for Everyone is a black comedy starring Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, and Jane Carr. The film was based on the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing, with the screenplay written by Hugh Wheeler...
  
   (1970) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Helmuth Von Ornstein
• Taste the Blood of Dracula
  Taste the Blood of Dracula
  Taste the Blood of Dracula is a British horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions and released in 1970. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, and was directed by Peter Sasdy...
  
   (1970) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Paul Paxton
• A Walk with Love and Death
  A Walk with Love and Death
  A Walk with Love and Death is a 1969 romantic/drama film directed by John Huston.The story is based the novel by Hans Koningsberger. The film marked the screen debut of Huston's daughter Anjelica Huston...
  
   (1969) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Robert of Loris

Television

• Marple: The Secret of Chimneys
  Marple (TV series)
  Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Agatha Christie's Marple. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. She was replaced...
  
   (2010) (TV) .... Count Ludwig
• Law and Order: UK (2009) (TV) .... Ed Connor
• Lewis (2009) (TV) .... Franco
• Heroes and Villains: Napoleon (2007) (TV) .... General Dugommier
• The Commander: Blackdog (2005) (TV) .... David Sperry
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Traitor to Memory (2004) (TV) .... James Pitchley
• Trial & Retribution III (1999) (TV) .... Karl Wilding
• Close Relations (1998) (mini) TV Series .... Robert
• Supply & Demand (1997) (TV) .... Lloyd St John
• Moses (1996) (TV) .... Korah
• The Governor (1995) TV Series .... Norman Jones
• 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993) (TV) .... Sherlock Holmes
• One Against the Wind aka "Mary Lindell" (1991) (TV) .... SS Capt. Herman Gruber
• The Strauss Dynasty (1991) (mini) TV Series .... Johann Strauss
• Darlings of the Gods (1989) (TV) .... Laurence Olivier
• Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987) (mini) TV Series .... Joseph
• The Last Seance (1986) (TV) .... Raoul
• The Shutter Falls (1986) (TV) .... Photographer
• Lace II (1985) (TV) .... King Abdullah of Sydon
• The Cold Room
  The Cold Room
  The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden. Based on an eponymous 1978 science fiction novel by Jeffrey Caine, the film stars George Segal, Amanda Pays , Anthony Higgins, Renée Soutendijk, and Warren Clarke. The original film score is by Michael Nyman...
  
   (1984) (TV) .... Erich
• Lace (1984) (TV) .... Prince Abdullah
• Reilly: The Ace of Spies (1983) (mini) TV Series .... Trilisser
• Love in a Cold Climate (1980) (mini) TV Series
• The Eagle of the Ninth (1977) (mini) TV Series .... Marcus Flavius Aquila
• Hadleigh
  Hadleigh (TV series)
  Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a sequel to the writer's earlier Gazette for the same company...
  
   (1976) TV Series .... Gregory Baker (1976)
• Blood of the Lamb (1969) (TV) (as Anthony Corlan) .... Alec

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