Actor
Robert Bathurst
February 22, 1957 · Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
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.
Notable work
7.6Doctor Who (2005)
as Farquhar
6.6Scoop (2006)
as Strombel's Co-Worker
5.9Absolutely Anything (2015)
as James Cleverill
8.1Downton Abbey (2010)
as Sir Anthony Strallan
6.9Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Neville Henderson and as Sir Nevile Henderson
8.2Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
as Gilbert Entwhistle
8.1Red Dwarf (1988)
as Todhunter
7.7The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
as Percy Hamleigh
7.1Dracula (2013)
as Lord Thomas Davenport
7.5Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Perry Darnley
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