Robin Ellis
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK — Jan 08 1942
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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 Rememb…
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John
Heartbeat
Joe Henderson
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Robert Norberton
Poldark
Reverend Halse
Churchill's People
Major White
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Dallas
Fawlty Towers
Danny Brown
The Main Chance
Donald Gordon Hopwood
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wallander
Tom Lyell
Between the Lines
Poldark
Ross Poldark
Cluedo
Colonel Mike Mustard
Elizabeth R
Robert Devereaux
The Guardians
Sense and Sensibility
Edward Ferrars
Shadows of Fear
Roger
Armchair Theatre
Dr. Jim Beverly
The Moonstone
Franklin Blake
Love and Marriage
Adrian Carter
A Dark Adapted Eye
John
End of Empire
Narrator
Capstick's Law
Henry Capstick
Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
She Loves Me
Georg Nowack
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Howard Carter
The Europeans
Robert Acton
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Danny Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Death of Yugoslavia
Narrator
Wallander: The Photographer
Tom Lyell
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Narrator (voice)
The Comedy of Errors
Dr. Pinch
Arthur? Arthur!
Ames
The Moonstone
Franklin Blake
Blue Remembered Hills
John
Knots
The Trial of Lord Lucan
Sir Charles Moore
Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
Bright Eyes
Sam Howard
The Fall of Milosevic
Narrator
The Good Soldier
John Dowell
Tres mujeres de hoy
Alejandro
The Death of Yugoslavia
Narrator
Wednesday's Child
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Narrator
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Narrator
Children of the Open Road
(voice)