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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 8, 1942
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Also Known As
- Anthony Robin Ellis
Robin Ellis
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.8
Reverend Halse
Poldark
2015
5.3
Tom Lyell
Wallander: The Photographer
2006
7.0
Tom Lyell
Wallander
2005
🎬
0.0
Narrator
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
1996
0.0
Narrator
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
1996
7.1
Narrator
The Death of Yugoslavia
1995
6.0
Sir Charles Moore
The Trial of Lord Lucan
1994
6.0
John
A Dark Adapted Eye
1994
5.6
Between the Lines
1992
7.0
Joe Henderson
Heartbeat
1992
Credits
Poldark
as Reverend Halse
2015
7.8
Wallander: The Photographer
as Tom Lyell
2006
5.3
Wallander
as Tom Lyell
2005
7.0
🎬
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
as Narrator
1996
0.0
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
as Narrator
1996
0.0
The Death of Yugoslavia
as Narrator
1995
7.1
The Trial of Lord Lucan
as Sir Charles Moore
1994
6.0
A Dark Adapted Eye
as John
1994
6.0
Between the Lines
1992
5.6
Heartbeat
as Joe Henderson
1992
7.0
Heartbeat
as Sir Richard Lonsdale
1992
7.0
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as Narrator (voice)
1990
6.5
Cluedo
as Colonel Mike Mustard
1990
6.4
Children of the Open Road
as (voice)
1988
0.0
End of Empire
as Narrator
1985
0.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Robert Norberton
1984
8.1
Timewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
6.9
Bright Eyes
as Sam Howard
1982
0.0
The Good Soldier
as John Dowell
1981
4.3
Tres mujeres de hoy
as Alejandro
1980
0.0
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as Howard Carter
1980
4.3
The Europeans
as Robert Acton
1979
5.4
She Loves Me
as Georg Nowack
1979
8.7
Blue Remembered Hills
as John
1979
6.5
The Comedy of Errors
as Dr. Pinch
1978
8.8
Poldark
as Ross Poldark
1975
6.6
Fawlty Towers
as Danny Brown
1975
8.3
🎬
Knots
1975
2.0
The Moonstone
as Franklin Blake
1972
8.0
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Charles Dallas
1971
7.3
The Guardians
1971
5.5
🎬
Bel Ami
as Georges Duroy
1971
0.0
Elizabeth R
as Robert Devereaux
1971
7.4
Sense and Sensibility
as Edward Ferrars
1971
5.5
Play for Today
as John
1970
6.3
Shadows of Fear
as Roger
1970
6.0
Arthur? Arthur!
as Ames
1969
3.0
The Main Chance
as Donald Gordon Hopwood
1969
7.7
The Fall of Milosevic
as Narrator
N/A
7.0