Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins Slipstream Press Conference August 2007
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AKA:
Philip Anthony Hopkins , Sir , Anthony Hopkins
Nationality:
Welsh
Birthdate:
12/31/1937
Birthplace:
Port Talbot, Wales
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biography
Like his fellow Welshman Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins left England and a celebrated stage career to enjoy the life of an A-list Hollywood actor. The restless thespian made an auspicious film debut in "The Lion in Winter" (1968), as the scheming Richard the Lionheart, and won Emmys for his TV-movie performances in "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" (NBC, 1976), as accused kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann, and "The Bunker" (CBS, 1981), as Adolph Hitler. But it was his Oscar-winning turn as Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) that brought the years of struggle and Continued
Credits
Sir John Talbot
2009
King Hrothgar
2007
Ted Crawford
2007
Executive Producer
2006
John Casey
2006
Judge Irwin
2006
Burt Monro
2005
Robert
2005
Old Ptolemy
2004
Dr Coleman Silk
2003
Dr Hannibal Lecter
2002
Gaylord Oakes
2002
Ted Brautigan
2001
Hannibal Lecter
2001
Titus Andronicus
1999
Ethan Powell
1999
William Parrish
1998
Zorro--Don Diego De La Vega
1998
Prince Richard
1998
John Quincy Adams
1997
Charles Morse
1997
Pablo Picasso
1996
Director
1996
Ieuan Davies
1996
Richard M Nixon
1995
Bob Glass
1995
Jack Lewis
1993
Stevens
1993
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
1992
George Hayden
1992
Dr Hannibal Lecter
1991
Frank Doel
1987
Frederick Treves
1980
Lieutenant Colonel John Frost
McCleod
Screenplay
Captain Johnny Johnson
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
The Priest
Tim Cornell
Elliot Hoover
Colonel William Ludlow
Adam Evans
Lieutenant William Bligh
McCandless
Torvald Helmer
Claudius
Guy Burgess
Director
Major Angus Barry--
Dr John Harvey Kellogg
Bill Hooper
Corky Withers
Henry Wilcox
Wallace
Daniel Webster
Felix Bonhoffer/Lloyd
Philip Calvert
milestones
Year
Milestone
1958 
Served in the Royal Artillery
1960 
Stage debut in "The Quare Fellow" at the Library Theatre in Manchester, England
 
Acted in repertory in Leicester, Liverpool and Hornchurch, England
1964 
London stage debut, "Julius Caesar" at the Royal Court Theater
 
Invited to join The National Theater at the Old Vic where he played King Lear, Macbeth and Antony; first major role was when he understudied Laurence Olivier and eventually went on in "Dance of Death" (1966)
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