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
- Testimony as Journalist
- The Kitchen Toto as D.C. McKinnon
1987
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Paul Krempe (archive footage)
- The Shutter Falls as Minister
- Playing Away as Godfrey
1985
- Restless Natives as Baird
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Albrecht Hoffman
- Bleak House as Laurence Boythorn
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
- Hammer House of Horror as Harry
- The Dogs of War as Capt. Lockhart
- Fox as Jerry
- A Tale of Two Cities as Attorney General
- Children of the Full Moon as Harry
- A Gift from Nessus as Sid Morton
- An Enemy of the People as Tom Stockman
1979
- Father's Day as Martin Rice-Davies
- Quest of Eagles
1977
- The Professionals as Thomas Darby
1976
- Gator as 3rd Agent
- The Button Man as Emrys
- England, Summer, Sunday as Morris
1974
- Playhouse as Emrys
- The Inheritors as Lord James Gethin
- The Aweful Mr. Goodall
1972
- The Reporters as Vic
- The Frighteners as Rutherford
- Pathfinders
1970
- Play for Today as Vic
- Doomwatch as Jim Ainslie
- Brotherly Love as Auctioneer
- The Looking Glass War as Johnson
1969
- Department S as Anthony James Harvey / Andrew Heywood
1968
- The Champions as Hemmings
- The Syndicate as George Brant
1967
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Mr. McLeod
1963
- The Break as Pearson
- 55 Days at Peking as Capt. Hanley
- Murder at the Gallop as George Crossfield
1962
- The Saint as Brian Quell
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1961
- The Avengers as Maxwell
- Jango
1960
- Danger Tomorrow as Bob
- Foxhole in Cairo as Major Wilson
- Trouble with Eve
- The Bulldog Breed as Commander Clayton
1958
- Dunkirk as Mike
1957
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
- The Curse of Frankenstein as Paul Krempe
1956
- You Can't Escape as Peter Darwin
- The Tamer Tamed as Petruchio
1955
- The Dark Avenger as Sir Philip
1954
- Golden Ivory as Jim Dobson
- Happy Ever After as Dr. Michael Flynn
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