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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 22, 1957
Place of Birth
Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
Robert Bathurst
1.2 Popularity
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
6.8
Lionel
Man vs Baby
2025
7.3
Max Clifford
The Hack
2025
7.2
Narrator
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025
0.0
Bloodsport
2025
6.0
Narrator
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2024
6.9
Prince Henry
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023
7.2
Ed Howzer-Black
Toast of Tinseltown
2022
6.9
Sir Neville Henderson
Munich – The Edge of War
2021
6.9
Sir Nevile Henderson
Munich – The Edge of War
2021
6.9
Garwood
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
Credits
Man vs Baby
as Lionel
2025
6.8
The Hack
as Max Clifford
2025
7.3
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
as Narrator
2025
7.2
Bloodsport
2025
0.0
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
as Narrator
2024
6.0
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
as Prince Henry
2023
6.9
Toast of Tinseltown
as Ed Howzer-Black
2022
7.2
Munich – The Edge of War
as Sir Neville Henderson
2021
6.9
Munich – The Edge of War
as Sir Nevile Henderson
2021
6.9
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
as Garwood
2021
6.9
The Larkins
as Johnny Delamere
2021
6.4
The Fall
as Michael Hamilton
2021
0.0
Dave Allen at Peace
as Charles Curran
2018
4.4
Narcopolis
as Nolan
2015
4.6
Absolutely Anything
as James Cleverill
2015
5.9
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
as Maydo Archer
2014
5.3
Dracula
as Lord Thomas Davenport
2013
7.1
Toast of London
as Ed Howzer-Black
2013
7.4
Blandings
as Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
2013
7.2
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Hattie
as John Le Mesurier
2011
5.7
Downton Abbey
as Sir Anthony Strallan
2010
8.1
The Pillars of the Earth
as Percy Hamleigh
2010
7.6
The Queen
2009
7.0
Emma
as Mr. Weston
2009
7.6
A Family Portrait
as Robert (voice)
2009
6.0
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
as Narrator (voice)
2008
7.8
Raising Sancho
as Narrator
2008
0.0
Kingdom
as Philip Collins
2007
7.1
Snow White: The Sequel
as Additional voices (voice)
2007
4.5
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Scoop
as Strombel's Co-Worker
2006
6.6
🎬
Coup!
as Mark Thatcher
2006
0.0
The Thief Lord
as Dottor Massimo
2006
5.9
Sex Actually
as Charles
2005
6.5
Heidi
as Mr. Sessemann
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
as Farquhar
2005
7.6
The Stepfather
as Christopher Veazey
2005
5.0
My Dad's the Prime Minister
as Prime Minister
2003
5.5
Three Sisters
as Vershinin
2003
0.0
The Safe House
as Dr. Adam Daley
2002
7.0
White Teeth
as Marcus Malfen
2002
5.9
🎬
RI:SE
2002
2.0
The Secret
as Alex Faraday
2002
5.1
My Family
2000
7.0
Cold Feet
as David Marsden
1998
7.6
Hornblower
as Lieutenant Ecclestone
1998
7.7
Hornblower: The Even Chance
as Lieutenant Eccleston
1998
7.5
Get Well Soon
as Squadron Leader Fielding
1997
6.0
Midsomer Murders
as Perry Darnley
1997
7.5
The Wind in the Willows
as St John Weasel
1996
5.7
A Breed of Heroes
as Maj. Edward Lumley
1994
1.0
The Detectives
as Thomas
1993
6.7
Joking Apart
1993
6.7
Twenty-one
as Mr. Metcalfe
1991
4.5
The House of Eliott
as Hector Furneux
1991
6.4
Lazarus and Dingwall
1991
8.0
No Job for a Lady
as Tony
1990
5.7
🎬
About Face
1989
6.0
🎬
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
5.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Gilbert Entwhistle
1989
8.2
Just Ask for Diamond
as Vicar
1988
4.3
Chelmsford 123
as Gaius
1988
7.0
Red Dwarf
as Todhunter
1988
8.1
Casualty
as Russell Whitelaw
1986
6.1
Whoops Apocalypse
as Damien
1986
5.6
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Garwood
1971
7.4
Small Hours
as Jackson (voice)
N/A
0.0