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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry.
After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the …
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Anthony Hopkins's Filmography
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No Poster
Wife & Dog
Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Locked
as William
Mary
as King Herod
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
as Self
Freud's Last Session
as Sigmund Freud
One Life
as Nicholas Winton
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
as Jimmy (voice)
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
The Son
as Anthony
Armageddon Time
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Where Are You
as Thomas
Zero Contact
as Finley Hart
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
The Virtuoso
as The Mentor
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
The Father
as Anthony
Elyse
as Dr. Philip Lewis
The Two Popes
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Love, Antosha
as Self (voice)
King Lear
as Lear
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
as Self
Thor: Ragnarok
as Odin
Spielberg
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Sir Edmund Burton
Collide
as Hagen Kahl
Misconduct
as Arthur Denning
The Dresser
as Sir
Blackway
as Lester
Solace
as John Clancy
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Freddy Heineken
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
Noah
as Methuselah
Thor: The Dark World
as Odin
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Ieuan Davies
RED 2
as Bailey
Hitchcock
as Alfred Hitchcock
360
as John
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
Thor
as Odin
The Rite
as Father Lucas Trevant
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Alfie
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
as Self
The Third Rule
as Fabian Hogarth
The Wolfman
as Sir John Talbot
Bare Knuckles
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
as Self
The City of Your Final Destination
as Adam Gund
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
as Self
Beowulf
as Hrothgar (Voice)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
as Self
Shortcut to Happiness
as Daniel Webster
Fracture
as Ted Crawford
Slipstream
as Felix Bonhoeffer
All the King's Men
as Judge Irwin
Bobby
as John Casey
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
The World's Fastest Indian
as Burt Munro
Proof
as Robert Llewellyn
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
Alexander
as Old Ptolemy
The Human Stain
as Coleman Silk
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
Red Dragon
as Hannibal Lecter
Bad Company
as Oakes
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
as Self
Hearts in Atlantis
as Ted Brautigan
Unmasking Zorro
as Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
No Poster
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
Hannibal
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
as Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
Mission: Impossible II
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Titus
as Titus Andronicus
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
as Narrator
No Poster
Little Secret
as Narrator
Instinct
as Dr. Ethan Powell
Meet Joe Black
as William Parrish
Junket Whore
as Self
The Mask of Zorro
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Amistad
as John Quincy Adams
The Edge
as Charles Morse
The Lost Children of Berlin
as Narrator
Surviving Picasso
as Pablo Picasso
August
as Ieuan Davies
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
Nixon
as Richard Nixon
Legends of the Fall
as Col. William Ludlow
The Road to Wellville
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
Shadowlands
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Remains of the Day
as James Stevens
The Innocent
as Glass
The Trial
as The Priest
Chaplin
as George Hayden
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
as Self
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Howards End
as Henry J. Wilcox
Spotswood
as Errol Wallace
Freejack
as Ian McCandless
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
One Man’s War
as Joel
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Desperate Hours
as Tim Cornell
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Heartland
as Jack
Faroe Islands
as (voice)
The Tenth Man
as Jean Louis Cheval
Across the Lake
as Donald Campbell
The Dawning
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank P. Doel
Blunt
as Guy Burgess
The Good Father
as Bill Hooper
Guilty Conscience
as Arthur Jamison
Arch of Triumph
as Dr. Ravic
The Bounty
as Lieutenant William Bligh
Little Eyolf
as Alfred Allmers
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Quasimodo
Othello
as Othello
The Bunker
as Adolf Hitler
A Change of Seasons
as Adam Evans
The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as Captain Jones
Magic
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
International Velvet
as Captain Johnson
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Audrey Rose
as Elliot Hoover
Victory at Entebbe
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dark Victory
as Dr. Michael Grant
All Creatures Great and Small
as Siegfried Farnon
The Girl from Petrovka
as Kostya
Juggernaut
as Supt. John McCleod
The Arcata Promise
as Theo Gunge
The Childhood Friend
as Alexander Tashkov
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
as Hi
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
Young Winston
as David Llyod George
Poet Game
as Hugh Saunders
When Eight Bells Toll
as Philip Calvert
Hearts and Flowers
as Bob
No Poster
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Charles Dickens
The Three Sisters
as Andrey
The Looking Glass War
as John Avery
Hamlet
as Claudius
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Wat Tyler
The Lion in Winter
as Richard
Red, White, and Zero
as Brechtian
The White Bus
as Brechtian
No Poster
The Housekeeper
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
The Species
as Charles Darwin
No Poster
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
No Poster
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
as Self
No Poster
A Visit to Grandpa’s
as Grandpa
No Poster
The King of Covent Garden
as Georg Friedrich Händel
No Poster
Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
No Poster
Cus & Mike
as Cus D’Amato
No Poster
2048
as Bryant
No Poster
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Hrothgar