Robert Urquhart

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1921-10-16

Place of Birth

Ullapool, Scotland, UK

Robert Urquhart

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career. He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947. He starred in many shows of the detective/special-agent type, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the 1965 episode of Danger Man titled "English Lady Takes Lodgers". He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion His first film role was in 1952 in You're Only Young Twice. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Urquhart (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

1994
Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor as Dadda Whalby
1994
The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1993
The Long Roads as Peter McVurrich
1988
Testimony as Journalist
1988
The Kitchen Toto as D.C. McKinnon
1987
The Shutter Falls as Minister
1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Paul Krempe (archive footage)
1987
Playing Away as Godfrey
1985
Restless Natives as Baird
1985
Bleak House as Laurence Boythorn
1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Albrecht Hoffman
1984
Sharma and Beyond as Evan Gorley-Peters
1984
Puccini as Doria's Father
1983
The Old Men at the Zoo as Sir Robert Falcon
1983
Number 10 as Alexander Grant
1982
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang as Headmaster
1981
The Dollar Bottom as Headmaster
1980
The Dogs of War as Capt. Lockhart
1980
A Tale of Two Cities as Attorney General
1980
Children of the Full Moon as Harry
1980
Hammer House of Horror as Harry
1980
Fox as Jerry
1980
A Gift from Nessus as Sid Morton
1980
An Enemy of the People as Tom Stockman
1979
Quest of Eagles
1979
Father's Day as Martin Rice-Davies
1978
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1977
The Professionals as Thomas Darby
1976
Gator as 3rd Agent
1976
The Button Man as Emrys
1976
England, Summer, Sunday as Morris
1975
Just Another Saturday
1974
The Inheritors as Lord James Gethin
1974
The Aweful Mr. Goodall
1974
Playhouse as Emrys
1973
Helen: A Woman of Today
1972
The Reporters as Vic
1972
Pathfinders
1972
The Frighteners as Rutherford
1970
Play for Today as Vic
1970
Doomwatch as Jim Ainslie
1970
Brotherly Love as Auctioneer
1970
The Looking Glass War as Johnson
1969
Department S as Anthony James Harvey / Andrew Heywood
1968
The Champions as Hemmings
1968
The Syndicate as George Brant
1967
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Callan
1966
Mystery and Imagination as Mr. McLeod
1963
The Break as Pearson
1963
Murder at the Gallop as George Crossfield
1963
55 Days at Peking as Capt. Hanley
1962
The Saint as Brian Quell
1962
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1961
Jango as Jango Smith
1961
The Avengers as Maxwell
1960
The Bulldog Breed as Commander Clayton
1960
Danger Tomorrow as Bob
1960
Foxhole in Cairo as Major Wilson
1960
Trouble with Eve
1959
International Detective
1959
No Hiding Place
1958
Dunkirk as Mike
1957
The Curse of Frankenstein as Paul Krempe
1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
1956
The Tamer Tamed as Petruchio
1956
You Can't Escape as Peter Darwin
1955
The Dark Avenger as Sir Philip
1954
Golden Ivory as Jim Dobson
1954
Happy Ever After as Dr. Michael Flynn
1953
Knights of the Round Table as Gawaine
1953
Isn't Life Wonderful! as Frank, Charles' brother
1953
The House of the Arrow as Jim Frobisher
1952
Tread Softly as Clifford Brett
1952
Paul Temple Returns as Slater
1952
You're Only Young Twice! as Sheltie