Robert Urquhart
- Acting
- October 16, 1921 · Ullapool, Scotland, UK
- March 21, 1995
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor · Dadda Whalby
- The World of Hammer · Self
- The Long Roads · Peter McVurrich
- Testimony · Journalist
- The Kitchen Toto · D.C. McKinnon
- The Shutter Falls · Minister
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood · Paul Krempe (archive footage)
- Playing Away · Godfrey
- ScreenPlay · Minister
- Restless Natives · Baird
- Bleak House · Laurence Boythorn
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil · Albrecht Hoffman
- Screen Two · Peter McVurrich
- Sharma and Beyond · Evan Gorley-Peters
- Puccini · Doria's Father
- Gone For A Soldier · Self
- The Old Men at the Zoo · Sir Robert Falcon
- Number 10 · Alexander Grant
- P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang · Headmaster
- The Dollar Bottom · Headmaster
- The Dogs of War · Capt. Lockhart
- A Tale of Two Cities · Attorney General
- Children of the Full Moon · Harry
- Hammer House of Horror · Harry
- Fox · Jerry
- A Gift from Nessus · Sid Morton
- Yes Minister
- An Enemy of the People · Tom Stockman
- Quest of Eagles
- Father's Day · Martin Rice-Davies
- The Professionals · Thomas Darby
- The Sunday Drama · Peter Hurley, Lionel
- Gator · 3rd Agent
- The Button Man · Emrys
- England, Summer, Sunday · Morris
- Just Another Saturday
- The Inheritors · Lord James Gethin
- Happy Ever After · Sir Andrew McPherson
- The Aweful Mr Goodall · Jack Goodall
- Playhouse · Emrys
- Helen: A Woman of Today
- Centre Play · Morris
- The Highlands and Islands - a Royal Tour
- The Reporters · Vic
- Pathfinders
- Country Matters · Barty Bartholomew
- The Frighteners · Rutherford
- Late Night Theatre · Tommy Hope, James
- Play for Today · Vic
- Menace · Frank Smith
- Doomwatch · Jim Ainslie
- Brotherly Love · Auctioneer
- The Looking Glass War · Johnson
- Department S · Anthony James Harvey / Andrew Heywood
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Julian Gort
- The Champions · Hemmings
- The Syndicate · George Brant
- Man in a Suitcase
- ITV Playhouse · Duncan Doubleday, Robert MacLaine
- Callan
- Mystery and Imagination · Mr McLeod
- The Vital Spark · Dougie
- The Break · Pearson
- Murder at the Gallop · George Crossfield
- 55 Days at Peking · Capt. Hanley
- The Saint · Brian Quell
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
- Suspense · Sam Blair
- Jango · Jango Smith, Creator
- The Avengers · Maxwell
- The Bulldog Breed · Commander Clayton
- Danger Tomorrow · Bob
- Foxhole in Cairo · Major Wilson
- Trouble with Eve · Bryan Maitland
- International Detective
- No Hiding Place
- Dunkirk · Mike
- The Curse of Frankenstein · Paul Krempe
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst · Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
- Armchair Theatre · Anthony Coldstream, Capes