![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: May 9, 1947 in Northampton, England Biography:"Anthony Higgins" was born on May 9, 1947, in Northampton, England, and began his professional acting career 22 years later. Early on, he had a penchant for rigor mortis and ghoulery, performing in such films as "Walk With Love and Death" (1969), "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970), and "Vampire Circus" (1972). Higgins climbed out of the crypt in 1981 when he played a German villain, Gobler, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Higgins appears off and on throughout the film, but audiences may remember him best as the driver of the Nazi staff car attempting to block Indiana Jones from escaping in a careening truck carrying the Ark of the Covenant. The film made Higgins a household face, if not a household name, throughout the world. A year later, the world noticed that he could act, too -- in a serious, artistic way -- in "The Draughtsman's Contract". Higgins then appeared in the hit British TV... Full Biography
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