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