Andrew Sachs
Born: 1930-04-07 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 2016-11-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2016
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as Mantel Clock (voice)
- Breaking the Bank as Jenkins
2012
- Quartet as Bobby Swanson
- Run For Your Wife as Clumsy Waiter
2010
- Going Postal as Groat
2009
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self / Manuel
2008
- All Star Mr & Mrs
- We Are Most Amused as Self
2007
- What the Pythons Did Next... as Self
2006
- Ant Attack as Narrator
- Mr. Loveday's Little Outing as Mr. Loveday
- Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2005
- Egypt as Narrator
- Benjamin's Struggle
- Fawlty Towers Revisited as Himself
- Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World as Self - Narrator
2004
2003
- Cheeky as TV Announcer
- Doctor Who: Shada as Skagra (voice)
2001
- Nowhere in Africa as Mr. Rubens
2000
- Attachments as Murray Plaskow
- That Peter Kay Thing
1999
- Jack of Hearts as Peter Pryce
- The Amazing World of Wallace & Gromit as Narrator (voice)
1998
- Dead Clean as Kostas Malmatakis
- The Legend of the Lost Keys as George Gardener
- Star Hill Ponies as Various Characters (voice)
1997
- Einstein Revealed as Albert Einstein
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years as Presenter
- The Forgotten Toys as Additional Voices (voice)
- Eyewitness: Monster as Narrator (voice)
- Incredible Journeys
1996
- Silent Witness as Josef Horowitz
- Taxandria as André / Superintendent
1995
- Character Building as Narrator (voice)
- The Forgotten Toys as Chef / Old Man (voice)
1994
- Eyewitness as Narrator
- Pirates
- William's Wish Wellingtons as Narrator
1993
1992
- The Gingerbread Man as The Gingerbread Man / Mr Salt / Herr Von Cuckoo / Sleek the Mouse
1991
- The Dream Machine as Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
- Cluedo as Himself
1989
- Under the Sun as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
- Consuming Passions as Jason
- This Morning as Self
1987
- Spirits of the Forest as Narrator
1986
- Casualty as Father Morgan
- Architecture at the Crossroads as Narrator - (Voice)
1985
- The Galactic Garden as Vector
- There Comes A Time...
1984
- Big Deal as MC
- Tom O'Connor
1983
- Natural World as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
- Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
- It's Your Move as Roadsweeper
- Countdown
- Dead Ernest
1980
- The Tempest as Trinculo
1979
- Minder as Sidney
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- Monkey as Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung
- Revenge of the Pink Panther as Hospital Inmate
1977
- Are You Being Served? The Movie as Carlos
- What's Up Nurse as Guido
1976
- House of Mortal Sin as Man in Church
- James and the Giant Peach as Interviewer / 1st Naval Officer / Security Chief
1975
- Fawlty Towers as Manuel
- Robin Hood Junior as Friar
1974
- Rising Damp as Snell
- Romance with a Double Bass as Musician Zhuchkov
- Gorilla as Narrator
1973
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Walter Wagner
1971
- Quest for Love as TV Announcer (uncredited)
1970
- Codename as Stein
1968
- Number Ten as Nigel Fenn
- Nearest and Dearest as Doctor
- If Only the Trains Came as Sergei Sergeich
1967
- Callan as German Captain
1963
- We Joined the Navy as Short-Changed US Seaman
1961
- Nothing Barred as Convict
- Survival
1960
- Coronation Street as Ramsay Clegg
1959
- The Night We Dropped a Clanger as A.C. 2 Briggs
1947
- Hue and Cry as Schoolboy (uncredited)