Robert Bathurst
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 22, 1957 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
- Credits
- 72
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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
Doctor Who
2005TV
Farquhar
Scoop
2006Movie
Strombel's Co-Worker
Absolutely Anything
2015Movie
James Cleverill
Downton Abbey
2010TV
Sir Anthony Strallan
Munich - The Edge of War
2021Movie
Sir Neville Henderson, Sir Nevile Henderson
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Gilbert Entwhistle
Filmography
Savage House
2026Movie
The Narrator (voice)
Small Hours
2026Movie
Jackson (voice)
Man vs Baby
2025TV
Lionel
The Hack
2025TV
Max Clifford
Bloodsport
2025Movie
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025TV
Narrator
Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2024Movie
Narrator
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023Movie
Prince Henry
Toast of Tinseltown
2022TV
Ed Howzer-Black
Munich - The Edge of War
2021Movie
Sir Neville Henderson, Sir Nevile Henderson
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021Movie
Garwood
The Larkins
2021TV
Johnny Delamere
The Fall
2021Movie
Michael Hamilton
Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes
2019TV
Sgt. Arthur Wilson
Dave Allen at Peace
2018Movie
Charles Curran
Narcopolis
2015Movie
Nolan
Absolutely Anything
2015Movie
James Cleverill
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
2014Movie
Maydo Archer
Dracula
2013TV
Lord Thomas Davenport
Toast of London
2013TV
Ed Howzer-Black
Blandings
2013TV
Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011TV
Self - Participant
Hattie
2011Movie
John Le Mesurier
Downton Abbey
2010TV
Sir Anthony Strallan
The Pillars of the Earth
2010TV
Percy Hamleigh
The Queen
2009TV
Emma
2009TV
Mr. Weston
A Family Portrait
2009Movie
Robert (voice)
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
2008Movie
Narrator (voice)
Raising Sancho
2008Movie
Narrator
Kingdom
2007TV
Philip Collins
Snow White: The Sequel
2007Movie
Additional voices (voice)
The One Show
2006TV
Self
Scoop
2006Movie
Strombel's Co-Worker
Coup!
2006Movie
Mark Thatcher
The Thief Lord
2006Movie
Dottor Massimo
Sex Actually
2005Movie
Charles
Heidi
2005Movie
Mr. Sessemann
Doctor Who
2005TV
Farquhar
The Stepfather
2005TV
Christopher Veazey
My Dad's the Prime Minister
2003TV
Prime Minister
Three Sisters
2003Movie
Vershinin
The Safe House
2002Movie
Dr. Adam Daley
White Teeth
2002Movie
Marcus Malfen
RI:SE
2002TV
The Secret
2002Movie
Alex Faraday
The Secret
2002TV
Alex Faraday
My Family
2000TV
Cold Feet
1998TV
David Marsden
Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998Movie
Lieutenant Eccleston
Hornblower
1998TV
Lieutenant Ecclestone
Get Well Soon
1997TV
Squadron Leader Fielding
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Perry Darnley
The Wind in the Willows
1996Movie
St John Weasel
A Breed of Heroes
1994Movie
Maj. Edward Lumley
The Detectives
1993TV
Thomas
Joking Apart
1993TV
Mark Taylor
Twenty-One
1991Movie
Mr. Metcalfe
The House of Eliott
1991TV
Hector Furneux
Lazarus and Dingwall
1991TV
Justin De Jong
No Job for a Lady
1990TV
Tony
About Face
1989TV
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989TV
Dennis Bedlam
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Gilbert Entwhistle
Teams from Hell
1989Movie
Just Ask for Diamond
1988Movie
Vicar
Chelmsford 123
1988TV
Gaius
Red Dwarf
1988TV
Todhunter
Casualty
1986TV
Russell Whitelaw
Whoops Apocalypse
1986Movie
Damien
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979TV
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971TV
Garwood