15 Facts About Anton Rodgers

Anthony Rodgers was an English actor and occasional director.

Anton Rodgers performed on stage, in film, in television dramas and sitcoms.

Anton Rodgers appeared in films, including Scrooge The Day of the Jackal, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Anton Rodgers was born on 10 January 1933 in Paddington, London, the son of William Robert Anton Rodgers and Leonore Victoria.

The family were evacuated to Wisbech, Isle of Ely during the war, where his father worked for Balding and Mansell, printers of ration books, permits and passes; Anton Rodgers is sometimes erroneously reported as having been born in Wisbech.

Anton Rodgers appeared on stage from the age of 14.

Anton Rodgers was known for his television performances, specifically his long-running roles in the television sitcoms Fresh Fields in the 1980s and May to December from 1989 to 1994.

Anton Rodgers had a long career both on stage and in film.

Anton Rodgers appeared in films such as The Man Who Haunted Himself, Scrooge, The Day of the Jackal, and The Fourth Protocol.

Anton Rodgers narrated three programmes for the railway video production company Video 125.

Anton Rodgers married Morna Watson, a ballet dancer, in Kensington in 1959, having a son and a daughter and later divorcing.

Anton Rodgers was a patron of the Angles Theatre, Wisbech.

Anton Rodgers died in Reading, Berkshire on 1 December 2007, aged 74.

Anton Rodgers made his first West End appearance in 1947, aged 14, in Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Anton Rodgers followed this in same year with a tour of an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations playing Pip, and the title role in a revival of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy which toured the UK in 1948.