Andrew Sachs
Acting1930Berlin, Germany
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.
Known For
Acting History
2016
Breaking the Bank
as Jenkins
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Mantel Clock (voice)
2012
Quartet
as Bobby Swanson
Run For Your Wife
as Clumsy Waiter
2010
Going Postal
TVas Groat
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self / Manuel
2008
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Self
2006
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
as Mr. Loveday
Ant Attack
as Narrator
Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
Fawlty Towers Revisited
as Himself
Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World
as Self - Narrator
Egypt
TVas Narrator
2004
2003
2001
Nowhere in Africa
as Mr. Rubens
2000
1999
The Amazing Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
as Narrator (voice)
Jack of Hearts
TVas Peter Pryce
1998
Dead Clean
as Kostas Malmatakis
The Legend of the Lost Keys
TVas George Gardener
Star Hill Ponies
TVas Various Characters (voice)
1997
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years
as Presenter
Einstein Revealed
as Albert Einstein
Eyewitness: Monster
as Narrator (voice)
The Forgotten Toys
TVas Additional Voices (voice)
1996
Taxandria
as André / Superintendent
Albert Speer: The Nazi Who Said Sorry
as Narrator (voice)
Under the Sun
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)• 2 eps
1995
Character Building
as Narrator (voice)
The Forgotten Toys
as Chef / Old Man (voice)
Eyewitness
TVas Narrator
1994
1992
The Gingerbread Man
TVas The Gingerbread Man / Mr Salt / Herr Von Cuckoo / Sleek the Mouse
1991
The Dream Machine
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
Cluedo
TVas Himself
1988
Consuming Passions
as Jason
This Morning
TVas Self
1987
Spirits of the Forest
as Narrator
1986
Casualty
TVas Father Morgan / Mendel Lan
Architecture at the Crossroads
TVas Narrator - (Voice)
1985
The Galactic Garden
as Vector
Natural World
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)• 13 eps
The Galactic Garden
Writer
1984
Big Deal
TVas MC
1983
An Audience with...
TVas Self• 2 eps
1982
1981
History of the World: Part I
as Gerard - The French Revolution
1980
The Tempest
as Trinculo
1979
Monkey
TVas Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung• 26 eps
1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Hospital Inmate
Crown Court
TVas Jeremy Nisbett• 3 eps
Strangers
TVas Conron
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
Robin Hood Junior
as Friar
Fawlty Towers
TVas Manuel• 12 eps
1974
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Walter Wagner
1971
Quest for Love
as TV Announcer (uncredited)
1968
1963
We Joined the Navy
as Short-Changed US Seaman
1961
Nothing Barred
as Convict
1960
Coronation Street
TVas Ramsay Clegg
1959
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
as A.C. 2 Briggs
1947
Hue and Cry
as Schoolboy (uncredited)