Anthony Higgins
Biography
Anthony Higgins is an English actor of stage, screen and television who was born in Northampton, England and began acting in school and Cosmopolitan Club theater plays. He trained at the school run by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company and turned professional in 1967, playing Romeo for that company. Early film work included Something for Everyone (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) and the cult Vampire Circus (1972), all released while he was billed as Anthony Corlan, a name he used until 1975. Time Out magazine named him its Best Actor of 1979 for his Royal Shakespeare Company performances. He played Major Gobler in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), took the lead in Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), and portrayed Rathe in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) before playing Sherlock Holmes himself in Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993). On television he led the BBC series The Eagle of the Ninth (1977).
79years old
Turns 80 on May 9in 208 days
- Born Northampton
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 44 years1970 to 2014
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About the name
For his early film work through 1975, Higgins was billed as Anthony Corlan because his real name was too close to that of another actor.
A first
Higgins played both Sherlock Holmes and his enemy Professor Moriarty, appearing as the villain Rathe in Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 and as Holmes himself in Sherlock Holmes Returns in 1993.
First role
In 1967 Higgins turned professional as a stage actor, and he took the part of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at Birmingham Repertory.
Big break
In 1981, the British director Peter Greenaway picked Higgins to star in The Draughtsman's Contract, the film that became Greenaway's breakthrough. That same year, Higgins also appeared as Stephan in the American production Quartet.
Anthony Higgins movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Draughtsman's Contract1982 Comedy, Drama, Mysteryas R Neville / Mr Neville
IMDb rating 7.212K votes
Most often with
Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Anthony Higgins's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$583 million
8 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 8 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 6 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 6Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$390M66.9% of the total
- 2$104M17.8% of the total
- 3$64M10.9% of the total
- 4$11M1.9% of the total
- 5$8.3M1.4% of the total
- 6$3.6M0.6% of the total
- 7$2.3M0.4% of the total
- 8$169K0.0% of the total
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