Anthony Sharp

Anthony Sharp (16 June 1915 – 23 July 1984) was an English actor cast for roles on television and film principally from the 1950s onwards. A former insurance policy draughtsman, and a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sharp performed on stage before his war service in the Royal Artillery (1940–46). Concentrating on aristocratic, professional or middle class types, Sharp was cast in several of Stanley Kubrick's films (A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon). A regular in sitcoms, Sharp played a vicar in two episodes of Galton and Simpson's Steptoe & Son (1972, 1974), Colonel DeVere-Brown in the Rising Damp episode "Stand Up And Be Counted" and Brigadier Lemington in To the Manor Born. Towards the end of his...