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Andrew Sachs

Andreas Siegfried Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016), known professionally as Andrew Sachs, was a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and found his greatest fame for his portrayal of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Sachs had a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. He was successful well into his eighties, with roles in numerous films such as Quartet, and as Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.

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Born
Andreas Siegfried Sachs(1930-04-07)7 April 1930Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany
Died
23 November 2016(2016-11-23) (aged 86)Denville Hall, London, England
Occupations
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Years active
1959–2016
Spouse
mw- Melody Lang (m. 1960)
Children
3, including John Sachs

Tables

· Selected filmography
1947
Role(s)
Schoolboy
Notes
Uncredited
1959
Role(s)
A.C.2 Briggs
1961
Role(s)
Convict
1962
Role(s)
Short-changed U.S. seaman
Notes
Uncredited
Role(s)
Jacques (hotel concierge)
Notes
The Loaded Tourist, season 1, ep. 5
1973
Role(s)
Walter Wagner
1974
Role(s)
Barry Nichols
Role(s)
Musician Zhuchkov
1975
Robin Hood Junior
Role(s)
Friar
1975–1979
Role(s)
Fawlty Towers
Notes
Manuel
1977
Role(s)
Don Carlos Bernardo
1978
Role(s)
Guido the waiter
Role(s)
Hercule Poirot
1981
Role(s)
Gerard
Notes
Segment: "The French Revolution"
1988
Role(s)
Jason
1989
Role(s)
Ardeco
Notes
English version, voice
1992
Role(s)
The Gingerbread Man
1993
Role(s)
Durdles
1994
Role(s)
André / Superintendent
Notes
English version, voice
1998
Role(s)
George Gardener
2001
Role(s)
Mr. Rubens
2003
Cheeky
Role(s)
TV announcer
2009
Role(s)
Ramsay Clegg
2010
Role(s)
Tolliver Groat
2012
Role(s)
Clumsy waiter
Role(s)
Bobby Swanson
2014
Breaking the Bank
Role(s)
Jenkins
2015
Role(s)
Cyril Bishop
2016
Role(s)
Mantel Clock
Notes
Uncredited, final film role
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1947
Hue and Cry
Schoolboy
Uncredited
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1959
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
Briggs
1961
Nothing Barred
Convict
1962
We Joined the Navy
Short-changed U.S. seaman
Uncredited
1962
The Saint
Jacques (hotel concierge)
The Loaded Tourist, season 1, ep. 5
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Walter Wagner
1974
Frightmare
Barry Nichols
Romance with a Double Bass
Musician Zhuchkov
1975
Robin Hood Junior
Friar
1975–1979
Fawlty Towers
Manuel
1976
House of Mortal Sin
Man in Church
1977
Are You Being Served?
Don Carlos Bernardo
1978
What's Up Nurse!
Guido the waiter
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Hercule Poirot
1981
History of the World, Part I
Gerard
Segment: "The French Revolution"
1988
Consuming Passions
Jason
1989
Asterix and the Big Fight
Ardeco
English version, voice
1992
The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man
1993
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Durdles
1994
Taxandria
André / Superintendent
Faust
English version, voice
1998
The Legend of the Lost Keys
George Gardener
2001
Nowhere in Africa
Mr. Rubens
2003
Cheeky
TV announcer
2009
Coronation Street
Ramsay Clegg
2010
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
Tolliver Groat
2012
Run For Your Wife
Clumsy waiter
Quartet
Bobby Swanson
2014
Breaking the Bank
Jenkins
2015
EastEnders
Cyril Bishop
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Mantel Clock
Uncredited, final film role

References

  1. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/29/andrew-sachs-profile
  2. filmreference.com
    http://www.filmreference.com/film/29/Andrew-Sachs.html
  3. Andrew Sachs I Know Nothing! The Autobiography, Robson, London, 2014, p. 2.
  4. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86
  5. The Independent
    https://web.archive.org/web/20081205164425/http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-andrew-sachs-actor-and-writer-525357.html
  6. AJR Journal
    http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Sep02/article.474
  7. Camden New Journal
    http://www.thecnj.com/camden/2008/103008/news103008_08.html?headline=Make_a_meal_of_it%21_Fawlty_Towers_actor_in_BBC_Radio_2_row_opens_brand_new_hospital_restaurant
  8. Historical Dictionary of British Radio
  9. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/dec/02/andrew-sachs-obituary
  10. Variety
    https://variety.com/2016/tv/obituaries-people-news/andrew-sachs-dead-fawlty-towers-1201931702/
  11. The Daily Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/01/andrew-sachs-much-loved-fawlty-towers-actor-manuel-role-dies/
  12. BAFTA
    http://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/andrew-sachs
  13. BAFTA
    http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Fawlty%20Towers
  14. Sachs quoted in Fred Morony, "13 Fawlty Weeks changed Andrew Sachs's life", Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 1981, p. 41
  15. Fawlty Towers: fully booked
  16. 45cat
    http://www.45cat.com/record/7p150
  17. The Age
    http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/whats-a-matter-you-hey/2005/07/23/1121539192279.html
  18. The Independent
    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-to-hell-with-basil-1619527.html
  19. The Daily Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8762883/Andrew-Sachs-suffered-burns-on-set-of-Fawlty-Towers.html
  20. Speak Out
    http://www.tmcentertainment.co.uk/speaker-index.html?speakerid=520&parentcat=5
  21. "Audiobooks narrated By Andrew Sachs"
    http://www.audible.com.au/search/ref=a_search_c8_1_srchPg?searchNarrator=Andrew+Sachs&searchRank=main_titlerank
  22. Thomas and the Tiger (Thomas the Tank Engine)
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1860211976
  23. Contemporary Documentary
  24. The Devil on Screen: Feature Films Worldwide, 1913 through 2000
  25. "William's Wish Wellingtons"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03jw5q3
  26. "Starhill Ponies"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20161202172950/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/675816b8046045a893452579ff7f38bc
  27. Bowker's Directory of Videocassettes for Children
  28. "Little Grey Rabbit"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20161202172616/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b84081fa2
  29. "The Forgotten Toys"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20161202233113/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b80fb05fb
  30. BBC Radio
    https://web.archive.org/web/20090412094650/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f0qwl
  31. "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rrljy
  32. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36714323
  33. BBC Radio
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmcz7
  34. BBC Radio
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r527b
  35. Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to The Office
  36. "The History of Mr. Polly Part One"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20161202171747/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b727503e4
  37. "#10.3 All Things Brighton Beautiful"
    https://www.minder.org/episodeguide/S10E03_AllThingsBrightonBeautiful.htm
  38. NOVA
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2311eins.html
  39. "Dead Clean"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20161202172656/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b80d65041
  40. Mandy Actors
    https://actors.mandy.com/uk/company/20904/anglo-american-pictures/
  41. "Nearly Who"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/interviews/sachs/page7.shtml
  42. Bbc.co.uk
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/07_july/13/dirk.shtml
  43. Bromley News Shopper
    http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/leisure/latest/9772442.Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_radio_show_comes_to_The_Churchill_Theatre__Bromley/
  44. Digital Spy
    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a135789/sachs-to-join-coronation-street.html
  45. "DigitalSPy.com"
    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a138392/sachs-im-taking-street-challenge.html
  46. BFI
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160308053350/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee25467
  47. "LyndaRonan Personal Management"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20130126105751/http://www.lyndaronan.com/andrew-sachs/
  48. "Thornbury Arts Festival 2001"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20101017013640/http://www.thornburyartsfestival.com/TFpage3.htm
  49. "Quartet"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160513005233/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/50c30bc1a5894
  50. "Andrew Sachs radio plays – DIVERSITY WEBSITE"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20110115035533/http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/asachs.html
  51. 'Husband Defined in BBC Comedy' Melbourne Age, 8 April 1965 p. 25.
  52. "The Revenge, a radio play without words, written and performed by Andrew Sachs in 1978"
    http://www.savoyhill.co.uk/technique/revenge.html
  53. Chichester Festival Theatre archive 'Made in Heaven', accessed 3 October 2025
    https://passiton.cft.org.uk/archive/cast-list-made-in-heaven-1975/
  54. Otto Dekom, 'Celibacy helped Macnee gain TV popularity', Wilmington Morning News, 1 October 1975, p. 28.
  55. BBC News
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7692911.stm
  56. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/30/russell-brand-ross-baillie-sachs
  57. BBC News
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7696714.stm
  58. BBC News
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7697988.stm
  59. "BBC News – Andrew Sachs: Brand and Ross radio stunt 'disgusting'"
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-26254034
  60. Fantasticfiction.com
    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/melody-sachs/
  61. Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  62. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38178353
  63. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/arts/television/andrew-sachs-hapless-waiter-on-the-bbc-sitcom-fawlty-towers-dies-at-86.html
  64. The Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/01/andrew-sachs-much-loved-fawlty-towers-actor-manuel-role-dies/
  65. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86
  66. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/01/andrew-sachs-dies-after-alzheimers-aged-86
  67. Dhhliteraryagency.com
    http://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/melody-sachs.html
  68. Bbc.co.uk
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09lw5xc
  69. Shoutfactorytv.com
    http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/the-saint/the-loaded-tourist/574dc1a3eabece0d1301d77b
  70. I Know Nothing! The Autobiography
    https://web.archive.org/web/20200928043907/https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/i-know-nothing
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