Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs earns my deepest affection. A German-born actor who fled the Nazi era and rebuilt his life in Britain, he poured a lifetime of craft into stage, screen, radio, and voice work. Yet it was Manuel, the hapless Spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers, that made him immortal. I love how a single, perfectly judged comic character can outlast everything else and earn an actor a place in cultural memory forever. There is something both humbling and triumphant about that. Sachs left us in 2016 at 86, but Manuel keeps making people laugh, which feels like the finest legacy an actor could ask for.

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Name (English)

Andrew Sachs

Name (Japanese)

アンドリュー・サックス

Reading

あんどりゅー・さっくす

Born

April 7, 1930 – November 23, 2016

Origin

Berlin, Germany

Occupation

comedian / voice actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Sachs
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76963

Tags

• comedian
• voice actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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