Anthony Higginson

The handsome British actor with a slightly aloof air has worked steadily in film and television since finding success on the British stage in the 1960s. Born in East Northamptonshire, England, Higgins was still in his teens when he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theater Company, acting in many Shakespearean roles including Romeo opposite Anna Calder-Marshall's Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." In 1969 John Huston was the first to use Higgins's talent on film, casting him in "A Walk with Love and Death," Huston's daughter Angelica's screen debut. The following year legendary stage director Harold Prince cast him in his own first film, "Something For Everyone," in which Higgins appeared with Angela Lansbury and Michael York. Higgins's sophisticated air made him a natural for period pieces; he was in two early seventies horror films from Hammer Studios, 1970's "Taste the Blood of Dracula" and the 1972 cult favorite "Vampire Circus." American audiences most likely best remember Higgins as a Nazi bedeviling Indiana Jones in Spielberg's 1981 blockbuster, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and two years later Higgins received one of his biggest showcases as the lead Mr. Neville in Peter Greenaway's breakthrough art house film, "The Draughtsman's Contract." Higgins has done character work since, occasionally in Hollywood films like the Frankenstein tale "The Bride" with rock star Sting, and in the Spielberg-produced "Young Sherlock Holmes," but has spent most of his career since acting in films and series made for British television. Until 1975, Higgins acted under the name "Anthony Corlan."