Robert Bathurst
Acting
Born: February 22, 1957 (age 69) · Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
Highest Rated
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
Doctor Who
2005
Scoop
2006
Absolutely Anything
2015
Downton Abbey
2010
Munich - The Edge of War
2021
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Red Dwarf
1988
The Pillars of the Earth
2010
Dracula
2013
Midsomer Murders
1997
Man vs Baby
2025
The Thief Lord
2006
Photos (2)
Movies (34)
Savage House
The Narrator (voice)
Munich - The Edge of War
Sir Neville Henderson
Munich - The Edge of War
Sir Nevile Henderson
Absolutely Anything
James Cleverill
Scoop
Strombel's Co-Worker
Small Hours
Jackson (voice)
Narcopolis
Nolan
The Wind in the Willows
St John Weasel
The Thief Lord
Dottor Massimo
Whoops Apocalypse
Damien
Heidi
Mr. Sessemann
Snow White: The Sequel
Additional voices (voice)
Twenty-One
Mr. Metcalfe
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Lieutenant Eccleston
Just Ask for Diamond
Vicar
White Teeth
Marcus Malfen
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Narrator (voice)
Sex Actually
Charles
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Garwood
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
Maydo Archer
Coup!
Mark Thatcher
Dave Allen at Peace
Charles Curran
Three Sisters
Vershinin
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
Prince Henry
The Secret
Alex Faraday
The Safe House
Dr. Adam Daley
A Family Portrait
Robert (voice)
A Breed of Heroes
Maj. Edward Lumley
Teams from Hell
1989
Bloodsport
2025
Hattie
John Le Mesurier
Raising Sancho
Narrator
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
Narrator
The Fall
Michael Hamilton
TV Shows (33)
Midsomer Murders
Perry Darnley · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Farquhar · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Gilbert Entwhistle · 1 eps
Casualty
Russell Whitelaw · 10 eps
Downton Abbey
Sir Anthony Strallan · 6 eps
Red Dwarf
Todhunter · 1 eps
Hornblower
Lieutenant Ecclestone · 1 eps
The House of Eliott
Hector Furneux · 1 eps
My Family
1 eps
The Pillars of the Earth
Percy Hamleigh · 8 eps
The Hack
Max Clifford · 1 eps
Kingdom
Philip Collins · 1 eps
Toast of London
Ed Howzer-Black · 18 eps
Cold Feet
David Marsden · 61 eps
Dracula
Lord Thomas Davenport · 10 eps
Man vs Baby
Lionel · 2 eps
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Garwood · 1 eps
The Detectives
Thomas · 1 eps
Emma
Mr. Weston · 4 eps
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1 eps
The Larkins
Johnny Delamere · 3 eps
Blandings
Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe · 4 eps
Toast of Tinseltown
Ed Howzer-Black · 4 eps
The Queen
5 eps
Chelmsford 123
Gaius · 1 eps
Joking Apart
Mark Taylor · 12 eps
My Dad's the Prime Minister
Prime Minister · 13 eps
The Secret
Alex Faraday · 2 eps
No Job for a Lady
Tony · 1 eps
Lazarus and Dingwall
Justin De Jong · 1 eps
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
Narrator · 5 eps
Get Well Soon
Squadron Leader Fielding · 6 eps
The Stepfather
Christopher Veazey · 2 eps
