
Robin Ellis
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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
Credits

The Negotiator (1994)
as Stuart Shaw
Bel Ami (1971)
as Georges Duroy
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Danny Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980)
as Howard Carter

The Death of Yugoslavia (1995)
as Narrator

She Loves Me (1979)
as Georg Nowack

The Europeans (1979)
as Robert Acton

Wallander: The Photographer (2006)
as Tom Lyell

The Comedy of Errors (1978)
as Dr. Pinch

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)
as Narrator (voice)

The Trial of Lord Lucan (1994)
as Sir Charles Moore

Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
as John

Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
as Ames

Wednesday's Child (1970)
Actor

Tres mujeres de hoy (1980)
as Alejandro

Bright Eyes (1982)
as Sam Howard

Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies (1996)
as Narrator

The Good Soldier (1981)
as John Dowell

Children of the Open Road (1988)
as (voice)
Knots (1975)
Actor
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies (1996)
as Narrator



