Andrew Sachs
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.
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Acting History
2025
The Cancellation Of Fawlty Towers
2016Breaking the Bank as Jenkins
2016Alice Through the Looking Glass as Mantel Clock (voice)
2012Quartet as Bobby Swanson
2012Run For Your Wife as Clumsy Waiter
2010Going Postal as Groat
2009Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self / Manuel
2008We Are Most Amused as Self
2008All Star Mr & Mrs
2007What the Pythons Did Next... as Self
2006Ant Attack as Narrator
2006Mr. Loveday's Little Outing as Mr. Loveday
2006Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2005Fawlty Towers Revisited as Himself
2005Benjamin's Struggle
2005Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World as Self - Narrator
2005Egypt as Narrator
2004This World
2003Cheeky as TV Announcer
2003Doctor Who: Shada as Skagra (voice)
2001Nowhere in Africa as Mr. Rubens
2000Attachments as Murray Plaskow
2000That Peter Kay Thing
1999Jack of Hearts as Peter Pryce
1999The Amazing World of Wallace & Gromit as Narrator (voice)
1998Star Hill Ponies as Various Characters (voice)
1998Dead Clean as Kostas Malmatakis
1998The Legend of the Lost Keys as George Gardener
1997Eyewitness: Monster as Narrator (voice)
1997Einstein Revealed as Albert Einstein
1997Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The First 50 Years as Presenter
1997Incredible Journeys
1997The Forgotten Toys as Additional Voices (voice)
1996Silent Witness as Josef Horowitz
1996Taxandria as André / Superintendent
1995Eyewitness as Narrator
1995Character Building as Narrator (voice)
1995The Forgotten Toys as Chef / Old Man (voice)
1994William's Wish Wellingtons as Narrator
1994Pirates
1993Every Silver Lining
1993The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1993The Mushroom Picker as Tadeus
1992The Gingerbread Man as The Gingerbread Man / Mr Salt / Herr Von Cuckoo / Sleek the Mouse
1991The Dream Machine as Self - Narrator (voice)
1990Cluedo as Himself
1989Under the Sun as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988This Morning as Self
1988Consuming Passions as Jason
1987Spirits of the Forest as Narrator
1986Casualty as Father Morgan
1986Casualty as Mendel Lan
1986Architecture at the Crossroads as Narrator - (Voice)
1985There Comes A Time...
1985The Galactic Garden as Vector
1984Big Deal as MC
1984Tom O'Connor
1983Natural World as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982Countdown
1982It's Your Move as Roadsweeper
1982Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982Dead Ernest
1980The Tempest as Trinculo
1979Minder as Sidney
1978Monkey as Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung
1978An Audience with... as Self
1978Revenge of the Pink Panther as Hospital Inmate
1977Are You Being Served? The Movie as Carlos
1977What's Up Nurse as Guido
1976James and the Giant Peach as Interviewer / 1st Naval Officer / Security Chief
1976House of Mortal Sin as Man in Church
1975Fawlty Towers as Manuel
1975Robin Hood Junior as Friar
1974Gorilla as Narrator
1974Rising Damp as Snell
1974Romance with a Double Bass as Musician Zhuchkov
1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Walter Wagner
1971Quest for Love as TV Announcer (uncredited)
1970Codename as Stein
1968If Only the Trains Came as Sergei Sergeich
1968Number Ten as Nigel Fenn
1968Nearest and Dearest as Doctor
1967Callan as German Captain
1963We Joined the Navy as Short-Changed US Seaman
1962The Saint as Jacques
1962Dial RIX
1961Nothing Barred as Convict
1961Survival
1960Coronation Street as Ramsay Clegg
1959The Night We Dropped a Clanger as A.C. 2 Briggs
1947Hue and Cry as Schoolboy (uncredited)