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