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Robert Bathurst
Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is an English actor. Bathurst was born in The Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. In 1959 his family moved to Ballybrack, Dublin, Ireland and Bathurst attended school in Killiney and later was enrolled at Headfort, an Irish boarding school. In 1966, the family moved back to England and Bathurst transferred to Worth School in Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and joined the Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full-time and 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'', ''Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bathurst Filmography
The filmography of English actor Robert Bathurst comprises both film and television roles spanning almost 30 years. Bathurst made his acting debut for television in 1982 in the never-broadcast pilot episode for the BBC sitcom ''Blackadder'', though his character Prince Henry was recast when the '' Black Adder'' series was commissioned. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, Bathurst appeared in episodes of '' The Lenny Henry Show'', ''Who Dares Wins'', '' The District Nurse'', ''Red Dwarf'', and ''Chelmsford 123'', before starring alongside his Cambridge Footlights colleague Stephen Fry in the short-run series ''Anything More Would Be Greedy''. He also appeared in the films ''Whoops Apocalypse'' (1986) and ''Just Ask for Diamond'' (1988). Into the 1990s, Bathurst gained wider recognition from television audiences, first as writer Mark Taylor in ''Joking Apart'' from 1991 to 1995, then as David Marsden in ''Cold Feet'' from 1997 to 2003 and again from 2016.Smurthwaite, Nick (11 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
