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