Robert Bathurst
Born
February 22, 1957 (68 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
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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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2014
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2010
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2010
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(5 episodes)
2009
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2009
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2009
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Narrator (voice)
2008
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2007
Snow White: The Sequel
Additional voices (voice)
2007
The One Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2006
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2006
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2006
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2005
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Mr. Sessemann
2005
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2005
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2005
My Dad's the Prime Minister
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2003
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The Safe House
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2002
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2002
RI:SE
(1 episode)
2002
The Secret
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2002
My Family
(1 episode)
2000
Cold Feet
David Marsden · (61 episodes)
1998
Hornblower: The Even Chance
Lieutenant Eccleston
1998
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Lieutenant Ecclestone · (1 episode)
1998
Get Well Soon
Squadron Leader Fielding · (6 episodes)
1997
Midsomer Murders
Perry Darnley · (1 episode)
1997
The Wind in the Willows
St John Weasel
1996
A Breed of Heroes
Maj. Edward Lumley
1994
The Detectives
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1993
Joking Apart
(12 episodes)
1993
Twenty-one
Mr. Metcalfe
1991
The House of Eliott
Hector Furneux · (1 episode)
1991
Lazarus and Dingwall
(1 episode)
1991
No Job for a Lady
(1 episode)
1990
About Face
(1 episode)
1989
Anything More Would Be Greedy
(6 episodes)
1989
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Gilbert Entwhistle · (1 episode)
1989
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Vicar
1988
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1988
Red Dwarf
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1988
Casualty
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1986
Whoops Apocalypse
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1986
The Comic Strip Presents...
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1982