Robert Bathurst
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
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.
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Filmography
Small Hours
Movie · as Jackson (voice)
Savage House
Movie · as The Narrator (voice)
Bloodsport
Movie
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps
The Hack
TV · as Max Clifford · 1 ep
Man vs Baby
TV · as Lionel · 2 eps
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
Movie · as Narrator
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Movie · as Prince Henry
Toast of Tinseltown
TV · as Ed Howzer-Black · 4 eps
The Fall
Movie · as Michael Hamilton
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Movie · as Garwood
Munich - The Edge of War
Movie · as Sir Neville Henderson, Sir Nevile Henderson
The Larkins
TV · as Johnny Delamere · 3 eps
Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes
TV · as Sgt. Arthur Wilson · 3 eps
Dave Allen at Peace
Movie · as Charles Curran
Absolutely Anything
Movie · as James Cleverill
Narcopolis
Movie · as Nolan
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
Movie · as Maydo Archer
Dracula
Movie · as Lord Thomas Davenport
Toast of London
TV · as Ed Howzer-Black · 18 eps
Dracula
TV · as Lord Thomas Davenport · 10 eps
Blandings
TV · as Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe · 4 eps
Hattie
Movie · as John Le Mesurier
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV · as Self - Participant · 1 ep
Downton Abbey
TV · as Sir Anthony Strallan · 6 eps
The Pillars of the Earth
TV · as Percy Hamleigh · 8 eps
A Family Portrait
Movie · as Robert (voice)
Emma
TV · as Mr. Weston · 4 eps
The Queen
TV · 5 eps
Raising Sancho
Movie · as Narrator
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Snow White: The Sequel
Movie · as Additional voices (voice)
Kingdom
TV · as Philip Collins · 1 ep
Coup!
Movie · as Mark Thatcher
Scoop
Movie · as Strombel's Co-Worker
The Thief Lord
Movie · as Dottor Massimo
Agatha Christie Poirot After the Funeral
Movie · as Gilbert Entwhistle
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sex Actually
Movie · as Charles
Heidi
Movie · as Mr. Sessemann
The Stepfather
TV · as Christopher Veazey · 2 eps
Doctor Who
TV · as Farquhar · 1 ep
Three Sisters
Movie · as Vershinin
My Dad's the Prime Minister
TV · as Prime Minister · 13 eps
The Safe House
Movie · as Dr. Adam Daley
The Secret
Movie · as Alex Faraday
White Teeth
Movie · as Marcus Malfen
RI:SE
TV · 1 ep
The Secret
TV · as Alex Faraday · 2 eps
My Family
TV · 1 ep
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Movie · as Lieutenant Eccleston
Cold Feet
TV · as David Marsden · 61 eps
Hornblower
TV · as Lieutenant Ecclestone · 1 ep
Get Well Soon
TV · as Squadron Leader Fielding · 6 eps
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Perry Darnley · 1 ep
The Wind in the Willows
Movie · as St John Weasel
A Breed of Heroes
Movie · as Maj. Edward Lumley
The Detectives
TV · as Thomas · 1 ep
Joking Apart
TV · as Mark Taylor · 12 eps
Twenty-One
Movie · as Mr. Metcalfe
The House of Eliott
TV · as Hector Furneux · 1 ep
Lazarus and Dingwall
TV · as Justin De Jong · 1 ep
No Job for a Lady
TV · as Tony · 1 ep
Teams from Hell
Movie
About Face
TV · as Dave
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Gilbert Entwhistle · 1 ep
Anything More Would Be Greedy
TV · as Dennis Bedlam · 6 eps
Just Ask for Diamond
Movie · as Vicar
Red Dwarf
TV · as Todhunter · 1 ep
Chelmsford 123
TV · as Gaius · 1 ep
Comic Relief
TV · 1 ep
Whoops Apocalypse
Movie · as Damien
Casualty
TV · as Russell Whitelaw · 10 eps
All in Good Faith
TV · as Father Cary · 1 ep
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
TV · 1 ep
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV · as Garwood · 1 ep