Robert Bathurst

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Bathurst
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1957(1957-02-22)
Age	67
Birthplace	Accra
Country	Ghana
Birth City	Greater Accra Region
Horoscope	Aquarius

Robert Bathurst Biography

Robert Bathurst is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on February 22, 1957 in Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Robert Guy Bathurst was born on 22 February 1957 in Accra (modern-day Ghana) to Philip Charles Metcalfe Bathurst. He is a descendant from politician Charles Bathurst, kinsman of the Earls Bathurst (and Viscounts Bledisloe), and his wife Gillian (nee Debenham). His father, a Major in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War, was working as a management consultant in West Africa. His mother was a physiotherapist. Their two children were Nicholas and Charlotte. They lived in Ghana from 1959 to their move to Ballybrack, Dublin. Bathurst and his brother attended the Holy Child School, Killiney, and a school at Ballsbridge in Dublin before they were sent to Kells County Meath preparatory school. He said that he and his brother were Catholics who spent time at the Anglican Boarding School. “We were held in a large, stinking Georgian house where we were treated very brutally.”

He made minor television appearances throughout the 1980s. In 1987, he auditioned to play the role of Dave Lister on the BBC North science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf. Craig Charles was eventually given the part, but Bathurst was cast as Frank Todhunter (second officer on board the ship), in the pilot episode of the series’ first series. Bathurst is then killed in the first ten minute. Bathurst was invited back to the role ten years later when a storyline allowed for former characters to return. However, filming commitments prevented him. He played Dennis Medlam in Malcolm Bradbury’s Anything More Would be Greedy for Anglia Television in 1989. It was broadcast on BSB in 1990 with little fanfare. He appeared on Up Yer News in 1990, a live, topical program broadcast on BSB.

He made his professional stage debut in 1983, playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, which ran for a year at the Savoy Theatre. To broaden his knowledge of working on stage, he joined the National Theatre. He supplemented his stage roles in the 1980s with television roles, appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of Blackadder, Chelmsford 123, The Lenny Henry Show and the first episode of Red Dwarf. In 1991, he won his first major television role playing Mark Taylor in the semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Joking Apart, written by Steven Moffat. Although only thirteen episodes were made (between 1991 and 1995), the role remains Bathurst’s favourite of his whole career. After Joking Apart concluded, he was cast as pompous management consultant David Marsden in the ITV comedy drama Cold Feet, which ran for five series from 1998 to 2003 and again for four further series from 2016 to 2020.

Bathurst’s professional stage debut came the next year when he joined the second cast of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at the Savoy Theatre. He replaced Roger Lloyd-Pack as Tim Allgood and stayed at the Savoy for a year. Between roles, he worked as a television presenter for BBC East. After declining an offer to be a presenter of That’s Life! he joined the National Theatre in 1984, where he appeared as a background actor in Saint Joan. He regards it as “the most demoralising” job he has ever had but was grateful for the theatre experience it gave him. The following year, he appeared at The Man In The Moon, a pub theatre in Chelsea, in Judgement, a two-hour monologue on cannibalism. The opening night audience was made up of three people but after good reviews in the national press the audience grew to an average of fifteen.

Bathurst, then 18, left Worth to study law at Pembroke College in Cambridge. He spent a lot of his time performing with the Cambridge Footlights, along with Hugh Laurie and Rory McGrath. He was the group’s secretary from 1977 to 1978 and president from 1978 to 1979. He was a part of Footlights Revues such as Stage Fright (1978), which he co-wrote, and Nightcap (1979). He was also the director and actor in the Footlights pantomime Aladdin, as Widow Twankey, during the 1978-1979 season. He completed the University of Law Bar Vocational Course in London. This allowed him to continue his career as a practicing barrister but he preferred acting.

Robert Bathurst Net Worth

Robert Bathurst is one of the richest Actor from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Bathurst 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Guy Bathurst, born 22 February 1957, is an English actor. Bathurst was born on the Gold Coast in 1957. His father was a management consultant. His family moved to Ballybrack in Dublin, Ireland in 1959. Bathurst attended Killiney school and then enrolled at Anglican boarding schools. The family moved to England in 1966. Bathurst was transferred to Worth School, Sussex, and he began amateur drama. He was 18 when he studied law at Pembroke College in Cambridge. Then he joined the Cambridge Footlights. He then took up full- time acting after he graduated.

The family moved to England in 1966 and Bathurst was assigned to Worth School, Sussex. He began acting at the age 13 in minor revues and skits. He also read Plays and Players magazine and “studied floor plans of theatres and was informed about new theatres being constructed”. His family had seen a pantomime at Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. He was fascinated by acting and watched as actors waited in the wings for their cues.

After leaving Cambridge, Bathurst spent a year touring Australia in the Footlights Revue Botham, The Musical, which he described as “a bunch of callow youths flying round doing press conferences and chat shows”. Although he enjoyed his work with Footlights, he did not continue performing with the group, worrying that he would be “washed up at 35 having coat-tailed on their success through the early part of [his] career”. After leaving, he found that he was considered a dilettante, which resulted in it taking him longer than expected to be accepted as a serious actor. His first professional role out of university was in the BBC Radio 4 series Injury Time, alongside fellow Footlights performers Rory McGrath and Emma Thompson. His first role for television came in 1982, when he appeared as Prince Henry in the unaired pilot episode of Blackadder. He had already appeared in a training video by director Geoff Posner and got the role of Henry by way of thanks. The character was recast and downgraded when the series was commissioned as The Black Adder.

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Between 1998 and 2003, he made television appearances in Goodbye, Mr Steadman (2001), starring opposite Caroline Quentin as a shy and unassuming teacher who has been declared dead after one of his pupils erases all computer records relating to him and in the adaptation of White Teeth (2002). On stage, in 1998 he appeared in Michael Frayn’s Alarms and Excursions and in 1999 in Hedda Gabler, which was his last theatre role for several years. In the Daily Telegraph, Charles Spencer described his role as Tesman as a “weird casting choice” but called his acting “a brave stab”. In 2001, Bathurst appeared in the music video for Westlife’s Comic Relief single “Uptown Girl”.

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In 2002, straight after finishing Cold Feet, Bathurst went straight into filming My Dad’s the Prime Minister, a series in which he portrays fictional British prime minister Michael Philips. The first series was broadcast in a Sunday afternoon CBBC slot in 2003. He watched debates in the House of Commons to prepare for the role but did not base his portrayal on Tony Blair. In 2003, he returned to theatre for the first time in four years to play Vershinin in The Three Sisters, opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and Eric Sykes. He had not seen The Three Sisters before starring in it. Director Michael Blakemore advised him to turn this to his advantage, as he would not feel he had to live up to previous portrayals. After its run concluded, a special edition of The Three Sisters was filmed with the same cast for television broadcast on BBC Four. In 2005, the second series of My Dad’s the Prime Minister was broadcast, now moved to a Friday night time slot to take advantage of the adult humour. The same year, he starred in the ITV thriller The Stepfather playing Christopher Veazey, a man whose daughter goes missing. Bathurst was pleased that this white-collar worker had an emotional side, in comparison to David Marsden, whom he used as a yardstick when accepting those sorts of roles. Also in 2005, he played Mr Sesseman in an adaptation of Heidi and Dottore Massimo in The Thief Lord.

What was Robert Bathurst in?

From his first professional stage role playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayn’s Noises Off (1983), Bathurst has starred in Judgement (1987), Getting Married (1993), The Nose (1995), The Rover (1996), Alarms and Excursions (1998–1999), The Three Sisters (2003), Whipping it Up (2006, 2007), Present Laughter (2010), and …

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Is Robert Bathurst in Doctor Who?

Fast forward nearly nine years, and Robert appears in series 13 of Doctor Who, entitled Flux. He played General Farquhar in ‘Survivors of the Flux’, an officer who built UNIT-UK and unfortunately comes to nasty end when he realises his colleague is actually an alien in disguise.

Is Robert Bathurst related to Bathurst?

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