Robin Ellis
Acting • Born 1942-01-08
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
45 credits
Wallander: The Photographer
Movie • 2006
Tom Lyell
The Good Soldier
Movie • 1981
John Dowell
Arthur? Arthur!
Movie • 1969
Ames
The Moonstone
Movie • 1972
Franklin Blake
The Europeans
Movie • 1979
Robert Acton
The Comedy of Errors
Movie • 1978
Dr. Pinch
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
She Loves Me
Movie • 1979
Georg Nowack
Bright Eyes
Movie • 1982
Sam Howard
Blue Remembered Hills
Movie • 1979
John
Knots
Movie • 1975
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie • 1980
Howard Carter
Tres mujeres de hoy
Movie • 1980
Alejandro
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Movie • 1996
Narrator
The Trial of Lord Lucan
Movie • 1994
Sir Charles Moore
Children of the Open Road
Movie • 1988
(voice)
Bel Ami
Movie • 1971
Georges Duroy
The Death of Yugoslavia
Movie • 1995
Narrator
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
Danny Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elizabeth R
TV • 1971
Robert Devereaux
Fawlty Towers
TV • 1975
Danny Brown
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Joe Henderson
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
Shadows of Fear
TV • 1970
Roger
The Guardians
TV • 1971
Poldark
TV • 1975
Ross Poldark
The Main Chance
TV • 1969
Donald Gordon Hopwood
Timewatch
TV • 1982
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Sir Robert Norberton
Sense and Sensibility
TV • 1971
Edward Ferrars
Wallander
TV • 2005
Tom Lyell
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Sir Richard Lonsdale
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Charles Dallas
Cluedo
TV • 1990
Colonel Mike Mustard
Play for Today
TV • 1970
John
A Dark Adapted Eye
TV • 1994
John
Poldark
TV • 2015
Reverend Halse
End of Empire
TV • 1985
Narrator
The Death of Yugoslavia
TV • 1995
Narrator
The Fall of Milosevic
TV • 2001
Narrator
Bel Ami
TV • 1971
Georges Duroy
The Moonstone
TV • 1972
Franklin Blake
Capstick's Law
TV • 1989
Henry Capstick
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Major White