Anthony Higgins (actor)
| Anthony Higgins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Anthony Corlan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Heide Lausen |
Anthony Higgins (born 9 May 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor.
Higgins started acting in school and Cosmopolitan Club theatre plays, taking the lead in 'Treasure Island', Sweeney Todd', and 'The Beggar's Uproar' (sic). After graduation he studied at the school of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company. In 1967 he became a professional stage actor. He received positive reviews for his performance as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at Birmingham Repertory. He worked onstage in Coventry and at the Chichester Festival in Chichester. One of his first television appearances was a pivotal role in a 1968 episode of the TV series Journey to the Unknown with Janice Rule. Another television appearance was in Strange Report (1969) with Anthony Quayle. Higgins' first successes in cinema were: A Walk with Love and Death by John Huston with Anjelica Huston (1969), Something for Everyone (1970) with Michael York and Angela Lansbury, Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), with Christopher Lee, and a cult film Vampire Circus (1972), which was banned in the UK for a time due to purported hints of bestiality.
In all the films of his early career until 1975, Higgins was credited as 'Anthony Corlan' due to the similarity of his real name to that of another actor.
There followed a period of television and plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and other British theatre productions. In 1970 he played Boris in the BBC TV series The Roads to Freedom based on the Jean-Paul Sartre trilogy. In 1976 he played a supporting role in a popular British television series, Hadleigh. In 1977 he played the lead role in a BBC series The Eagle of the Ninth, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 book. In 1981 he played the supporting part of Gobler in the feature film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg. Higgins won Best Actor of 1979 from Time Out magazine for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company that year.
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