
Robert Bathurst
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.
69 acting credits
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Midsomer Murders
1997

Doctor Who
2005

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

Casualty
1986

The One Show
2006

Downton Abbey
2010

Red Dwarf
1988

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

My Family
2000

Cold Feet
1998

The House of Eliott
1991

Man vs Baby
2025

Hornblower
1998

Kingdom
2007

The Pillars of the Earth
2010

The Hack
2025

A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971

Toast of London
2013

The Detectives
1993
RI:SE
2002

Dracula
2013

Emma
2009

Blandings
2013

The Larkins
2021

Toast of Tinseltown
2022

The Queen
2009

Scoop
2006

Absolutely Anything
2015

Chelmsford 123
1988
About Face
1989

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

Joking Apart
1993

Munich - The Edge of War
2021

No Job for a Lady
1990

Narcopolis
2015

Heidi
2005
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989

The Wind in the Willows
1996

My Dad's the Prime Minister
2003

Whoops Apocalypse
1986

Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2025

The Stepfather
2005

Lazarus and Dingwall
1991

The Thief Lord
2006

Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998

The Secret
2002

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021

Get Well Soon
1997

Small Hours
2026

Snow White: The Sequel
2007

A Breed of Heroes
1994

Coup!
2006

Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
2014

White Teeth
2002

Three Sisters
2003

Hattie
2011

The Safe House
2002

Just Ask for Diamond
1988

Sex Actually
2005

Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
2008

Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023

Christmas at the Four Seasons: Park Lane
2024

Twenty-One
1991

Dave Allen at Peace
2018

A Family Portrait
2009

Bloodsport
2025

The Fall
2021

Teams from Hell
1989

Raising Sancho
2008