Robert Bathurst
Robert Guy Bathurst ( born February 22, 1957, the Gold Coast, British West Africa ) is a British actor.
Life and achievements
Bathurst was (now Ghana) was born in 1957 in the former colony of the Gold Coast, the son of Philip and Gillian Bathurst, where his father worked as a management consultant. He has two other siblings. 1959 the family moved to Dublin, Ireland, where Bathurst and his brother went to a church boarding school. 1966 the family moved to England, where Bathurst attended Worth School in West Sussex and there gained his first acting experiences. At the age of 18 he studied at the University of Cambridge and also became a member of the theater group Footlights, which also included other well-known personalities acting like Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson.
After graduating from the university he was working full-time as an actor and went with the Footlights for a year in Australia on tour. His first performance outside the group, he had in a speaker role in BBC Radio 4 he had his first television role in 1982 in the pilot episode of Blackadder as Prince Harry. His debut as a real theater actor he had in 1983 in the play Noises Off by Michael Frayn, which was performed at the Savoy Theatre. After that, he was a year an active performer of the theater and was next also active at BBC East as moderator. In 1984, he appeared in the play Saint Joan in the National Theatre.
Bathurst was in 1986 by Roger Moore, a candidate for the role of the new James Bond in The Living Daylights, but could not prevail against Timothy Dalton, who last won the role. Therefore, he continued his work as a television actor and has performed in accordance with 1987 in the series Red Dwarf. In 1996, he starred in the series Cold Feet one of the major roles and could 2002 Prime in the BBC's My Dad 's the Prime Minister, take over the lead role of Minister Michael Phillips. He then played again until some time in the theater and was for example seen in Three Sisters at the side of Kristin Scott Thomas.
Since 2005, Bathurst was then amplified to see in movies and starred in a television adaptation of Heidi the Lord Sesseman and 2006 in The Thief Lord the role of the strict father of the title character. In 2006 he had also in the TV movie coup! and the play Whipping It Up each held one of the main roles. This was followed by the 2009 film adaptation Emma, in which he played the role of Mr. Weston and 2010, the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, where he was seen as a schemer Percy Hamleigh.
Bathurst has been married since 1985 and has four children.
Filmography
- 2004: Three Sisters
- 2004: New Tricks - The crime specialists ( New Tricks, TV series)
- 2003-2004: My Dad 's the Prime Minister
- 2005: The Stepfather
- 2005: Heidi
- 2005: The Comic Strip Presents ...
- 2006: The Thief Lord ( The Thief Lord )
- 2006: Agatha Christie's Poirot ( TV series)
- 2006: Coup! ( TV movie )
- 2006: Scoop - Get the Scoop ( Scoop )
- 2006: Talk
- 2006: My Family
- 2007: Life: XP
- 2007: Kingdom
- 2009: Emma
- 2009: A Family Portrait
- 2009: The Queen
- 2010: The Pillars of the Earth ( The Pillars of the Earth, TV film )
- 2010-2012: Downton Abbey ( TV series)
- 2011: Hattie ( TV movie )
- 2011: The Maestro (Short Film )
- 2012-2013: Toast of London ( TV series)
- 2013: Blandings ( TV series)
- Since 2013: Dracula ( TV series)