Robert Urquhart
Born: 1921-10-16 in Ullapool, Scotland, UK
Died: 1995-03-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career. He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947. He starred in many shows of the detective/special-agent type, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the 1965 episode of Danger Man titled "English Lady Takes Lodgers". He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion His first film role was in 1952 in You're Only Young Twice. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Urquhart (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor as Dadda Whalby
1993
- The Long Roads as Peter McVurrich
1988
- The Kitchen Toto as D.C. McKinnon
- Testimony as Journalist
1987
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Paul Krempe (archive footage)
- Playing Away as Godfrey
- The Shutter Falls as Minister
1985
- Bleak House as Laurence Boythorn
- Restless Natives as Baird
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Albrecht Hoffman
1984
- Puccini as Doria's Father
- Sharma and Beyond as Evan Gorley-Peters
1983
- Number 10 as Alexander Grant
- The Old Men at the Zoo as Sir Robert Falcon
1982
- P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang as Headmaster
1981
- The Dollar Bottom as Headmaster
1980
- Yes Minister
- Hammer House of Horror as Harry
- The Dogs of War as Capt. Lockhart
- A Tale of Two Cities as Attorney General
- Fox as Jerry
- A Gift from Nessus as Sid Morton
- Children of the Full Moon as Harry
- An Enemy of the People as Tom Stockman
1979
- Quest of Eagles
- Father's Day as Martin Rice-Davies
1977
- The Professionals as Thomas Darby
- The Sunday Drama as Peter Hurley
1976
- Gator as 3rd Agent
- England, Summer, Sunday as Morris
- The Button Man as Emrys
1974
- Playhouse as Emrys
- The Aweful Mr Goodall as Jack Goodall
- The Inheritors as Lord James Gethin
1972
- The Frighteners as Rutherford
- Country Matters as Barty Bartholomew
- Pathfinders
- The Reporters as Vic
1970
- Play for Today as Vic
- Doomwatch as Jim Ainslie
- The Looking Glass War as Johnson
- Brotherly Love as Auctioneer
1969
- Department S as Anthony James Harvey / Andrew Heywood
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Julian Gort
1968
- The Champions as Hemmings
- The Syndicate as George Brant
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Duncan Doubleday
- Callan
- Man in a Suitcase
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Mr McLeod
1965
- The Vital Spark as Dougie
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Capt. Hanley
- Murder at the Gallop as George Crossfield
- The Break as Pearson
1962
- The Saint as Brian Quell
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
- Suspense as Sam Blair
1961
- The Avengers as Maxwell
- Jango as Jango Smith
1960
- The Bulldog Breed as Commander Clayton
- Foxhole in Cairo as Major Wilson
- Danger Tomorrow as Bob
- Trouble with Eve
1958
- Dunkirk as Mike
1957
- The Curse of Frankenstein as Paul Krempe
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Anthony Coldstream
- You Can't Escape as Peter Darwin
- The Tamer Tamed as Petruchio
1955
- The Dark Avenger as Sir Philip
1954
- Happy Ever After as Dr. Michael Flynn
- Golden Ivory as Jim Dobson
1953
- Knights of the Round Table as Gawaine
- Isn't Life Wonderful! as Frank, Charles' brother
- The House of the Arrow as Jim Frobisher
1952
- Tread Softly as Clifford Brett
- Paul Temple Returns as Slater
- You're Only Young Twice! as Sheltie