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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox". Template:Template other Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor . The Best Actor award was initially given as an "individual honour", without credit to a particular performance, until 1962, when Rupert Davies won for his performance in Maigret
Since 1970, nominees have been announced in addition to the winner. The Actor category was split into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor starting in 2010.
Michael Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins, followed by Robbie Coltrane with three, all of them also being consecutive. Additionally, Alan Badel , Peter Barkworth , Sean Bean , Alec Guinness , Mark Rylance , John Thaw , and Ben Whishaw , all have received the award twice. Benedict Cumberbatch has received the most nominations for this award with six, followed by Coltrane with five.
Winners and nominees File:Paul Rogers-Keith Baxter in Sleuth.jpg Paul Rogers (left) was the first recipient of the award.1950s 1960s File:Rupert Davies as Maigret in Murder on Monday.jpg Rupert Davies was the first actor to receive this award for a specific work, winning for Maigret 1970s File:Keith Michell colour Allan Warren.jpg Keith Michell won the award in 1971.File:AnthonyHopkins10TIFF.jpg Sir Anthony Hopkins won for War and Peace File:John Hurt at the London premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Sp (cropped).png John Hurt won for The Naked Civil Servant File:Sir Derek Jacobi.jpg Sir Derek Jacobi won the award for I, Claudius File:Edward Fox 2011.jpg Edward Fox won the award in 1979 for Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Year
Actors
Work
1970
Edward Woodward Callan
John Alderton
Please Sir!
Colin Blakely
Son of Man , The Way We Live Now
Arthur Lowe
Dad's Army
1971
Keith Michell The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Michael Bryant
The Roads to Freedom
Anthony Hopkins
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens Uncle Vanya , Hearts and Flowers , Danton
Michael Jayston
Charles Dickens , Mad Jack , Beethoven
Freddie Jones
Germinal/Omnibus: John Clare "I Am..."/Sweeney Todd/Uncle Vanya/Menace: The Straight And Narrow
1972
John Le Mesurier Traitor
Alfred Burke
Public Eye
Frank Finlay
Casanova
Kenneth Haigh
Search for the Nile , Man at the Top
1973
Anthony Hopkins War and Peace
Michael Bryant
The Duchess of Malfi , Colditz
Nicol Williamson
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1974
Frank Finlay The Adventures of Don Quixote ; Candide ; The Death of Adolf Hitler
Michael Crawford
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Bernard Hepton
The Adventures of Don Quixote , Colditz
Laurence Olivier
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1975
Peter Barkworth Crown Matrimonial
Michael Bryant
Mr Axelford's Angel
Gordon Jackson
Upstairs, Downstairs
Arthur Lowe
Microbes and Men , David Copperfield
1976
John Hurt The Naked Civil Servant
Alan Bates
Plaintiffs and Defendants , Two Sundays
Tony Britton
The Nearly Man
Timothy West
Edward the Seventh
1977
Derek Jacobi I, Claudius
James Bolam
When the Boat Comes In
Tom Conti
The Glittering Prizes
Jack Shepherd
Bill Brand , Ready When You Are Mr McGill
1978
Peter Barkworth Professional Foul
James Bolam
When the Boat Comes In
Derek Jacobi
Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Robert Powell
Jesus of Nazareth
1979
Edward Fox Edward and Mrs Simpson
Tom Bell
Out
Ian Holm
Night School , Flayed , Mirage , The Lost Boys
Bob Hoskins
Pennies From Heaven
1980s File:Sir Alec Guinness Allan Warren (2).jpg Alec Guinness has won twice, for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Smiley's People File:Anthony Andrews Allan Warren.jpg Anthony Andrews won the award for Brideshead Revisited File:Alan Bates.jpg Alan Bates won in 1984.File:Michael Gambon cropped.jpg Michael Gambon won in 1987. Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins.1990s File:Ian Richardson.jpg Ian Richardson won in 1991 for his role as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards File:Robbiecoltranecrop.jpg Robbie Coltrane won the award three consecutive times for his role as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker File:Simon Russell Beale.jpg Simon Russell Beale won in 1998 for A Dance to the Music of Time File:Tom Courtenay Berlin 2015.jpg Tom Courtenay won in 1999 for A Rather English Marriage 2000s File:Albert Finney 1966.jpg Albert Finney won for The Gathering Storm File:Bill Nighy-3007.jpg Bill Nighy won for State of Play File:Mark Rylance Cannes 2016.jpg Mark Rylance has won twice, for The Government Inspector Wolf Hall File:JimBroadbent07TIFF cropped.jpg Jim Broadbent won for Longford File:Andrew Garfield Comic-Con 3, 2011.jpg Andrew Garfield won for Boy A 2010s File:KennethBranaghApr2011.jpg Kenneth Branagh won for Wallander File:Dominic West (6577113511) (cropped).jpg Dominic West won for Appropriate Adult File:Ben whishaw 2018 5.jpg Ben Whishaw won twice for The Hollow Crown This Is Going to Hurt File:AV0A6306 Sean Bean.jpg Sean Bean won twice for Broken Time File:Benedict Cumberbatch 2016.jpg Benedict Cumberbatch won for Patrick Melrose File:Jared Harris 2014.jpg Jared Harris won for Chernobyl File:Paul Mescal, 2023 Dublin International Film Festival.jpg Paul Mescal won for Normal People File:Timothy Spall World Premiere The Party Berlinale 2017 02.jpg Timothy Spall won for The Sixth Commandment 2020s Actors with multiple wins and nominations Multiple wins The following people have been awarded the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
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Multiple nominations The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
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6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
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