Robert Bathurst

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1957-02-22 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana

Robert Bathurst

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.

Known For

Actor

2023
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
The Fall

as Michael Hamilton

2021
The Larkins

as Johnny Delamere

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
2013
Dracula

as Lord Thomas Davenport

2013
Toast of London

as Ed Howzer-Black

2013
Blandings

as Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe

2011
Hattie

as John Le Mesurier

2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

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
A Family Portrait

as Robert (voice)

2009
Emma

as Mr. Weston

2008
Raising Sancho

as Narrator

2007
Snow White: The Sequel

as Additional voices (voice)

2007
Kingdom

as Philip Collins

2006
Scoop

as Strombel's Co-Worker

2006
Coup!

as Mark Thatcher

2006
The Thief Lord

as Dottor Massimo

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2005
Sex Actually

as Charles

2005
Heidi

as Mr. Sessemann

2005
Doctor Who

as Farquhar

2005
The Stepfather

as Christopher Veazey

2003
Three Sisters

as Vershinin

2003
My Dad's the Prime Minister

as Prime Minister

2002
The Safe House

as Dr. Adam Daley

2002
White Teeth

as Marcus Malfen

2002
The Secret

as Alex Faraday

2002
White Teeth

as Marcus Malfen

2002
1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance

as Lieutenant Eccleston

1998
Cold Feet

as David Marsden

1998
Hornblower

as Lieutenant Ecclestone

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

1991
Twenty-one

as Mr. Metcalfe

1991
The House of Eliott

as Hector Furneux

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Gilbert Entwhistle

1988
Red Dwarf

as Todhunter

1986

Director

2021
The Fall

as Co-Director

Writer

2021
The Fall

as Writer