Robin Ellis
Born: 1942-01-08 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor and cookery book writer best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in the 29 episodes of the 1975 BBC classic series Poldark, adapted from a series of books by the British author Winston Graham. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers, Cluedo, The Good Soldier (an adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel), Elizabeth R (playing Essex), The Moonstone, Bel Ami, Sense and Sensibility (which also featured Clive Francis), The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, She Loves Me (in which he sings) and Blue Remembered Hills (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015–17 and 2019 he appeared in the Poldark series remake as Reverend Halse.
Filmography
2015
- Poldark as Reverend Halse
2006
- Wallander: The Photographer as Tom Lyell
2005
- Wallander as Tom Lyell
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Danny Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
- The Fall of Milosevic as Narrator
1996
- The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies as Narrator
- Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies as Narrator
1995
- The Death of Yugoslavia as Narrator
- The Death of Yugoslavia as Narrator
1994
- A Dark Adapted Eye as John
- The Trial of Lord Lucan as Sir Charles Moore
1992
- Heartbeat as Joe Henderson
- Between the Lines
1990
- Cluedo as Colonel Mike Mustard
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Narrator (voice)
1989
- Capstick's Law as Henry Capstick
1988
- Children of the Open Road as (voice)
1985
- End of Empire as Narrator
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Sir Robert Norberton
- Love and Marriage as Adrian Carter
1982
- Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Bright Eyes as Sam Howard
1981
- The Good Soldier as John Dowell
1980
- The Curse of King Tut's Tomb as Howard Carter
- Tres mujeres de hoy as Alejandro
1979
- The Europeans as Robert Acton
- Blue Remembered Hills as John
- She Loves Me as Georg Nowack
1978
- The Comedy of Errors as Dr. Pinch
1975
- Fawlty Towers as Danny Brown
- Poldark as Ross Poldark
- Knots
1974
- Churchill's People as Major White
1972
- New Scotland Yard as Steve Thomas
- The Frighteners as Mike
- The Moonstone as Franklin Blake
- The Moonstone as Franklin Blake
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Charles Dallas
- Elizabeth R as Robert Devereaux
- The Guardians
- Sense and Sensibility as Edward Ferrars
- Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
- Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
1970
- Play for Today as John
- Shadows of Fear as Roger
- Wednesday's Child
1969
- The Main Chance as Donald Gordon Hopwood
- Arthur? Arthur! as Ames
- The Inside Man as Michael Barnett
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Dr. Jim Beverly