Robert Bathurst
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.
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- 2023 · Blackadder: The Lost Pilot as Prince Henry
- 2022 · Munich: The Edge of War as Sir Neville Henderson
- 2022 · Munich: The Edge of War as Sir Nevile Henderson
- 2022 · Toast of Tinseltown as Ed Howzer-Black
- 2021 · A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint as Garwood
- 2021 · The Larkins as Johnny Delamere
- 2021 · The Fall as Michael Hamilton
- 2019 · Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes as Sgt Wilson
- 2018 · Dave Allen at Peace as Charles Curran
- 2016 · Agatha Raisin as Andy Cummings-Browne
- 2015 · Narcopolis as Nolan
- 2015 · Absolutely Anything as James Cleverill
- 2014 · Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie as Maydo Archer
- 2013 · Dracula as Lord Thomas Davenport
- 2013 · Toast of London as Ed Howzer-Black
- 2013 · Blandings as Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · Hattie as John Le Mesurier
- 2011 · Mrs Brown's Boys as William Hunt
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Sir Anthony Strallan
- 2010 · The Pillars of the Earth as Percy Hamleigh
- 2009 · The Queen as
- 2009 · Emma as Mr. Weston
- 2009 · A Family Portrait as Robert (voice)
- 2008 · Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Raising Sancho as Narrator
- 2007 · Kingdom as Philip Collins
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as Additional voices (voice)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Scoop as Strombel's Co-Worker
- 2006 · Coup! as Mark Thatcher
- 2006 · The Thief Lord as Dottor Massimo
- 2005 · Sex Actually as Charles
- 2005 · Heidi as Mr. Sessemann
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Farquhar
- 2005 · The Stepfather as Christopher Veazey
- 2003 · My Dad's the Prime Minister as Prime Minister
- 2003 · Three Sisters as Vershinin
- 2002 · The Safe House as Dr. Adam Daley
- 2002 · White Teeth as Marcus Malfen
- 2002 · White Teeth as Marcus Malfen
- 2002 · RI:SE as
- 2002 · The Secret as Alex Faraday
- 2000 · My Family as
- 1998 · Cold Feet as David Marsden
- 1998 · Hornblower as Lieutenant Ecclestone
- 1998 · Hornblower: The Even Chance as Lieutenant Eccleston
- 1997 · Get Well Soon as Squadron Leader Fielding
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Perry Darnley
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as St John Weasel
- 1994 · A Breed of Heroes as Maj. Edward Lumley
- 1993 · The Detectives as Thomas
- 1993 · Joking Apart as
- 1991 · Twenty-one as Mr. Metcalfe
- 1991 · The House of Eliott as Hector Furneux
- 1991 · Lazarus and Dingwall as
- 1990 · No Job for a Lady as
- 1989 · About Face as
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Gilbert Entwhistle
- 1988 · Just Ask for Diamond as Vicar
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as Todhunter
- 1986 · Whoops Apocalypse as Damien
- 1983 · Blackadder as
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Charles