Cast & creator
Robin Ellis
Best known for Play for Today, American Playhouse, Heartbeat
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.
Also known as: Anthony Robin Ellis
22
film credits
34
television credits
55
1956–2015 · acting roles
7.2
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (56)
Showing 56 of 56 credits
Play for Today
John
1970
American Playhouse
Robert Acton
1982
Heartbeat
Joe Henderson
1992Heartbeat
Sir Richard Lonsdale
1992
Sherlock Holmes
Sir Robert Norberton
1984
Wallander
Tom Lyell
2005
Poldark
Reverend Halse
2015
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
New Scotland Yard
Steve Thomas
1972
Churchill's People
Major White
1974
Between the Lines
1992
Fawlty Towers
Danny Brown
1975
The Main Chance
Donald Gordon Hopwood
1969
Poldark
Ross Poldark
1975
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Dallas
1971
Cluedo
Colonel Mike Mustard
1990
The Frighteners
Mike
1972
Elizabeth R
Robert Devereaux
1971
Armchair Theatre
Dr. Jim Beverly
1956
Shadows of Fear
Roger
1970
The Guardians
Peter Lee
1971Love and Marriage
Adrian Carter
1984
The Moonstone
Franklin Blake
1972Seven Faces of Woman
Lawrence
1974Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
1971
A Dark Adapted Eye
John
1994
Sense and Sensibility
Edward Ferrars
1971Biography
Hammond
1970
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Howard Carter
1980
The Death of Yugoslavia
Narrator
1995The Waterfall
James Otford
1980
The Europeans
Robert Acton
1979The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Danny Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
The Negotiator
Stuart Shaw
1994
End of Empire
Self - Narrator (voice)
1985
The Trial of Lord Lucan
Sir Charles Moore
1994Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
1971
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Narrator (voice)
1990
The Fall of Milosevic
Narrator
2001
The Inside Man
Michael Barnett
1969Capstick's Law
Henry Capstick
1989
Blue Remembered Hills
John
1979
The Death of Yugoslavia
Narrator
1995
The Comedy of Errors
Dr. Pinch
1978
She Loves Me
Georg Nowack
1979She Loves Me
Vocals
1979
Tres mujeres de hoy
Alejandro
1980
Arthur? Arthur!
Ames
1969
Children of the Open Road
(voice)
1988
Wallander: The Photographer
Tom Lyell
2006
The Good Soldier
John Dowell
1981
Wednesday's Child
1970
Bright Eyes
Sam Howard
1982
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Narrator
1996Knots
1975The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
Narrator
1996