Robin Ellis
Actor
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
Wallander: The Photographer
as Tom Lyell 2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Howard Carter 1980
The Good Soldier
as John Dowell 1981
The Comedy of Errors
as Dr. Pinch 1978
The Death of Yugoslavia
as Narrator 1995
Arthur? Arthur!
as Ames 1969
She Loves Me
as Georg Nowack 1979
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Narrator (voice) 1990
Blue Remembered Hills
as John 1979
Knots
1975
The Moonstone
as Franklin Blake 1972
The Trial of Lord Lucan
as Sir Charles Moore 1994
Bright Eyes
as Sam Howard 1982
Tres mujeres de hoy
as Alejandro 1980
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
as Narrator 1996
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
as Narrator 1996