Anthony Calf (born 4 May 1959) is an English actor. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He had recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as DAC Robert Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of The Madness of George III with the National Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The false servant at the National Theatre and Rock'n Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre. He was nominated as best actor in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008 for his work in Uncle Vanya at the Gate Theatre. He was featured in King Charles III on Broadway in 2015.
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Career
He made his television debut in the 1982 Doctor Who episode The Visitation, he returned to the series 35 years later in the 2017 episode "Empress of Mars". Also in 1982, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of Beau Geste. His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in My Family and Other Animals (1987), Pip in Great Expectations and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as well as Tom Faggus in the BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone. He has also appeared in episodes of Doc Martin, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Poirot.
In 2010, Calf played the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the BBC's revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, reprising his stage role as Eden (twenty years older as Prime Minister at the time of Suez) in Howard Brenton's Never So Good (2008). In 2019 he played William Wickham, founder of the British foreign secret service, in some episodes of Poldark, series 5.
Personal life
He is married to the actress Caroline Harker, with whom he has three daughters.
Selected filmography
Television
Partygate (2023) as Sir Mark Sedwill
Death in Paradise (2021) as Phillip Carlton
Poldark (2019) as William Wickham
King Lear (2018) as Duke of Albany
Midsomer Murders "The Village That Rose From The Dead" (2016) as Julian Lennard
Dracula (2013) as Dr William Murray
New Tricks (2005–15) as DAC Robert Strickland
Restless (2012) as Gerald Laird
Call the Midwife (2012) as Mr. Tracey
Upstairs Downstairs (2011) as Anthony Eden
Identity (2010) as Max
Lewis (2010) as Malcom Finneston
Material Girl (2010) as Anthony Chatsworth
Trinity (2009) as Lord Ravensby
Doc Martin (2009) as Richard Wenn
Mistresses (2008) as John
Dalziel and Pascoe (2007) as Joe Furst
The Good Samaritan (2007) as Michael Ambley
Holby City (2005–06) as Michael Beauchamp
Tom's Christmas Tree (2006) as Officer
The Impressionists (2006) as Émile Zola
Film
De Gaulle : Tilting Iron (2026) as Edward Spears
The Children Act (2017) as Mark Berner
The Man Who knew Infinity (2015) as Howard
Straightheads (2007) as Heffer
Dead Cool (2004) as Mark
Fairy Tale: a True Story (1997) as Hodson
A Woman of the North (1997) as Hugo
Anna Karenina (1997) as Serpuliovskoy
My Night With Reg (1996) as John
The Madness of King George (1994) as Fitzroy
Great Expectations (1989) as Pip
Oxford Blues (1984) as Gareth Rycroft
Theatre
Twelfth Night (2017) as Malvolio at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Hard Problem (2015)
Stephen Ward the Musical (2013–2014)
Private Lives (2013)
My Fair Lady (2012–13)
Private Lives (2012)
Death and the Maiden (2011)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Les Parents Terribles (2011)
The White Guard (2010)
The Power of Yes (2009–10)
Wallenstein (play) (2009)
Gethsemane (play) (2008–09)
Never So Good (play) (2008)
Uncle Vanya (2007)
Rock'n Roll (2006)
The False Servant (2005)
The Hotel in Amsterdam (2003)
A Buyer's Market (2002)
Cressida (2000)
Dolly West's Kitchen (2000)
Betrayal (1998)
Neverland
Cracked
My Night with Reg