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Robin Ellis

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: Acting

Born: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK, 1942-01-08

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	Arthur? Arthur!	Ames	30
2	1972	The Moonstone	Franklin Blake	80
3	1975	Knots		20
4	1978	The Comedy of Errors	Dr. Pinch	88
5	1979	Blue Remembered Hills	John	65
6	1979	She Loves Me	Georg Nowack	87
7	1979	The Europeans	Robert Acton	54
8	1980	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Howard Carter	43
9	1980	Tres mujeres de hoy	Alejandro	0
10	1981	The Good Soldier	John Dowell	43
11	1982	Bright Eyes	Sam Howard	0
12	1988	Children of the Open Road	(voice)	0
13	1990	The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story	Narrator (voice)	65
14	1994	The Trial of Lord Lucan	Sir Charles Moore	60
15	1996	Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies	Narrator	0
16	1996	The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies	Narrator	0
17	2006	Wallander: The Photographer	Tom Lyell	53

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	The Main Chance	Donald Gordon Hopwood	77
2	1970	Shadows of Fear	Roger	60
3	1970	Play for Today	John	63
4	1971	Sense and Sensibility	Edward Ferrars	55
5	1971	Elizabeth R	Robert Devereaux	74
6	1971	Bel Ami	Georges Duroy	0
7	1971	The Guardians		55
8	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Charles Dallas	73
9	1975	Fawlty Towers	Danny Brown	83
10	1975	Poldark	Ross Poldark	68
11	1982	Timewatch	Self - Narrator (voice)	69
12	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Sir Robert Norberton	81
13	1985	End of Empire	Narrator	0
14	1990	Cluedo	Colonel Mike Mustard	64
15	1992	Heartbeat	Joe Henderson	71
16	1992	Heartbeat	Sir Richard Lonsdale	71
17	1992	Between the Lines		56
18	1994	A Dark Adapted Eye	John	60
19	1995	The Death of Yugoslavia	Narrator	71
20	2005	Wallander	Tom Lyell	69
21	2015	Poldark	Reverend Halse	78
22		The Fall of Milosevic	Narrator	70