Person Details

Birthday: 1957-02-22 18:22:28

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana

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Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is an English actor. Bathurst was born in the Gold Coast in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. His family moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 1959 and Bathurst was enrolled at an Anglican boarding school. In 1966, the family moved to England, and Bathurst transferred to another boarding school, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at the University of Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full time. He made his professional stage debut in 1983, playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayn's Noises Off, which ran for a year at the Savoy Theatre. To broaden his knowledge of working on stage, he joined the National Theatre. He supplemented his stage roles in the 1980s with television roles, appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of Blackadder, The Lenny Henry Show, and the first episode of Red Dwarf. In 1991, he won his first major television role playing Mark Taylor in Steven Moffat's semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Joking Apart. Although only thirteen episodes were made between 1991 and 1995, the role remains Bathurst's favourite of his whole career. After Joking Apart concluded, he was cast as pompous management consultant David Marsden in the ITV comedy drama Cold Feet, which ran for five series from 1998 to 2003. Since 2003, Bathurst has played a fictional prime minister in the BBC sitcom My Dad's the Prime Minister, Mark Thatcher in the fact-based drama Coup!, and a man whose daughter goes missing in the ITV thriller The Stepfather. He also made a return to theatre roles, playing Vershinin in The Three Sisters (2003), Adrien in the two-hander Members Only (2006), government whip Alistair in Whipping it Up (2006–2007), and Alex in Alex (2007, 2008). In 2010 he starred in the The Pillars of the Earth and had a recurring role in Downton Abbey. Bathurst appeared in in his first Noël Coward play, Present Laughter, in 2010 and followed it with a role in Blithe Spirit in 2010 and 2011. He is married and has four children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Bathurst, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(2005) Farquhar
Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Perry Darnley
Agatha Christie's Poirot
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8

Agatha Christie's Poirot

(1989) Gilbert Entwhistle
Downton Abbey
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8

Downton Abbey

(2010) Sir Anthony Strallan
The House of Eliott
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5

The House of Eliott

(1991) Hector Furneux
The Pillars of the Earth
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8

The Pillars of the Earth

(2010) Percy Hamleigh
Kingdom
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7

Kingdom

(2007) Philip Collins
Dracula
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7

Dracula

(2013) Lord Thomas Davenport

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Prince Henry
2022 Sir Neville Henderson
Sir Nevile Henderson
Ed Howzer-Black
2021 Garwood
Johnny Delamere
Michael Hamilton
2019 Sgt Wilson
2018 Charles Curran
2016 Andy Cummings-Browne
2015 Nolan
James Cleverill
2014 N/A
2013 Lord Thomas Davenport
Ed Howzer-Black
Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
2011 John Le Mesurier
William Hunt
2010 Sir Anthony Strallan
Percy Hamleigh
2009 N/A
Mr. Weston
Robert (voice)
2008 Narrator (voice)
Narrator
2007 Philip Collins
Additional voices (voice)
2006 Self - Guest
Strombel's Co-Worker
Mark Thatcher
Dottor Massimo
2005 Charles
Mr. Sessemann
Farquhar
Christopher Veazey
2003 Prime Minister
Vershinin
2002 Dr. Adam Daley
Marcus Malfen
N/A
Alex Faraday
2000 N/A
1998 David Marsden
Lieutenant Eccleston
Lieutenant Ecclestone
1997 Squadron Leader Fielding
Perry Darnley
1996 St John Weasel
1994 Maj. Edward Lumley
1993 Thomas
N/A
1991 Mr. Metcalfe
Hector Furneux
N/A
1990 N/A
1989 N/A
N/A
Gilbert Entwhistle
1988 Vicar
Todhunter
1986 Damien
1983 N/A
1982 Charles
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2021 Co-Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2021 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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