Robert Bathurst
Known for Acting · 71 credits
- Born
- 1957-02-22 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (38)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Perry Darnley
Doctor Who
2005
as Farquhar
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Gilbert Entwhistle
Casualty
1986
as Russell Whitelaw
The One Show
2006
as Self
Downton Abbey
2010
as Sir Anthony Strallan
RI:SE
2002
Red Dwarf
1988
as Todhunter
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
Cold Feet
1998
as David Marsden
My Family
2000
Dracula
2013
as Lord Thomas Davenport
Man vs Baby
2025
as Lionel
The Pillars of the Earth
2010
as Percy Hamleigh
Hornblower
1998
as Lieutenant Ecclestone
The House of Eliott
1991
as Hector Furneux
Blandings
2013
as Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
The Hack
2025
as Max Clifford
The Detectives
1993
as Thomas
Kingdom
2007
as Philip Collins
Emma
2009
as Mr. Weston
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Garwood
Toast of London
2013
as Ed Howzer-Black
The Larkins
2021
as Johnny Delamere
Chelmsford 123
1988
as Gaius
Toast of Tinseltown
2022
as Ed Howzer-Black
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
The Queen
2009
My Dad's the Prime Minister
2003
as Prime Minister
Joking Apart
1993
as Mark Taylor
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025
as Narrator
No Job for a Lady
1990
as Tony
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
as Dennis Bedlam
About Face
1989
Get Well Soon
1997
as Squadron Leader Fielding
Lazarus and Dingwall
1991
as Justin De Jong
The Stepfather
2005
as Christopher Veazey
The Secret
2002
as Alex Faraday
Movies (33)
Savage House
2026
as The Narrator (voice)
Absolutely Anything
2015
as James Cleverill
Scoop
2006
as Strombel's Co-Worker
The Thief Lord
2006
as Dottor Massimo
Munich - The Edge of War
2021
as Sir Neville Henderson / Sir Nevile Henderson
Small Hours
2026
as Jackson (voice)
Twenty-One
1991
as Mr. Metcalfe
Heidi
2005
as Mr. Sessemann
Coup!
2006
as Mark Thatcher
The Wind in the Willows
1996
as St John Weasel
Narcopolis
2015
as Nolan
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
2014
as Maydo Archer
Bloodsport
2025
Snow White: The Sequel
2007
as Additional voices (voice)
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
as Lieutenant Eccleston
White Teeth
2002
as Marcus Malfen
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Damien
Teams from Hell
1989
Hattie
2011
as John Le Mesurier
A Breed of Heroes
1994
as Maj. Edward Lumley
A Family Portrait
2009
as Robert (voice)
Just Ask for Diamond
1988
as Vicar
The Secret
2002
as Alex Faraday
Sex Actually
2005
as Charles
Three Sisters
2003
as Vershinin
The Safe House
2002
as Dr. Adam Daley
Dave Allen at Peace
2018
as Charles Curran
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
2008
as Narrator (voice)
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
as Garwood
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023
as Prince Henry
Raising Sancho
2008
as Narrator
The Fall
2021
as Michael Hamilton
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2024
as Narrator
About 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 gra… With 71 credits spanning from 1971 to 2026, Robert Bathurst has appeared in 33 films and 38 TV shows.
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- Absolutely Anything (2015) — as James Cleverill
- Scoop (2006) — as Strombel's Co-Worker
- The Thief Lord (2006) — as Dottor Massimo
- Munich - The Edge of War (2021) — as Sir Neville Henderson / Sir Nevile Henderson
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