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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• The One Show — Self