Robert Powell was born on June 1, 1944 in Salford, Manchester, England. In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester University. In 1967, he made his film debut, and later landed his first starring role in The Italian Job (1969). Some of his well known movies include Franco Ziefirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977), Ken Russell's Tommy (1975) and Mahler (1974), the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), and the popular TV series "Doomwatch" (1970). Robert married on 29th August, 1975 to Barbara 'Babs' Lord. They now have a son and a daughter. In 1982, Robert won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Imperative (1982). He won the best actor award at the Paris Film Festival for Harlequin (1980). For his portrayal of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth he received best actor awards from TV Times and Italian TV Times, the international arts prize at the Fiuggi Film Festival, grand prize at the Saint-Vincent Film Festival, and a nomination as best actor from The Irish Academy of Film and Television arts. In reference to his role as Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth, Robert said, "I hope Jesus Christ will be the last in my line of sensitive young men for quite a while."
Movie | Tales of Television Centre | 2012-05-17 | |
Series | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant | 2011-10-24 |
Movie | The Book of Eli | Carnegie Gunman #2 | 2010-01-14 |
Series | World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2009-09-04 |
Movie | Colour Me Kubrick | Robert | 2005-10-06 |
Series | Agatha Christie's Marple | Dr. Haydock | 2004-12-12 |
Movie | The Queen's Lost Uncle | Narrator | 2003-11-06 |
Series | Holby City | Mark Williams | 1999-01-12 |
Movie | Batman & Robin | Ice Thug | 1997-06-20 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Barry Jemmerson | 1996-03-16 |
Movie | Batman Forever | Harvey's Thug | 1995-06-16 |
Movie | Titanic - The Story | Narrator (voice) | 1993-01-01 |
Series | The Detectives | Dave Briggs | 1993-01-27 |
Series | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | The First Circle | Gleb Nershin | 1992-02-25 |
Movie | Il segno del comando | Edward Foster | 1992-03-01 |
Movie | The Golden Years | Unknown | 1992-01-02 |
Movie | The Boer War: 1899-1902 | Narrator | 1992-07-01 |
Movie | Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel | John Barth | 1992-08-20 |
Movie | Chunuk Bair | Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith | 1992-04-25 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Self | 1991-10-14 |
Movie | Merlin Of The Crystal Cave | Ambrosius | 1991-11-17 |
Movie | Romeo.Juliet | Romeo (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
Series | Keeping Up Appearances | Cabbie | 1990-10-29 |
Series | Hannay | Richard Hannay | 1988-01-06 |
Movie | Down There in the Jungle | Kruger | 1988-02-04 |
Movie | Love Sins | Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1987-01-30 |
Movie | The Wandering Company | Narrator (voice) | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | 1984-06-17 |
Movie | What Waits Below | Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen | 1984-11-19 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Movie | The Jigsaw Man | Jamie Fraser | 1983-11-11 |
Series | Countdown | Unknown | 1982-11-02 |
Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Phoebus | 1982-02-02 |
Movie | Imperative | Augustin | 1982-04-01 |
Movie | The Survivor | Keller | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Pygmalion | Higgins | 1981-12-27 |
Movie | Harlequin | Gregory Wolfe | 1980-03-28 |
Movie | The Four Feathers | Jack Durrance | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The Thirty Nine Steps | Richard Hannay | 1978-11-04 |
Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Jesus | 1977-03-27 |
Movie | Beyond Good and Evil | Paul Rée | 1977-10-05 |
Movie | Tommy | Captain Walker | 1975-03-19 |
Movie | Mahler | Gustav Mahler | 1974-04-04 |
Movie | Lady Killer | Paul Tanner | 1973-01-18 |
Movie | Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1972-07-05 |
Movie | Running Scared | Tom Betancourt | 1972-05-01 |
Series | Crown Court | Lance Porter | 1972-10-11 |
Series | The Edwardians | Unknown | 1972-11-21 |
Movie | The Asphyx | Giles Cunningham | 1972-12-05 |
Movie | Asylum | Dr. Martin | 1972-11-17 |
Series | Jude the Obscure | Jude Fawley | 1971-02-06 |
Movie | Secrets | Allan Wood | 1971-09-21 |
Movie | The Hunting of Lionel Crane | Lionel Crane | 1970-01-21 |
Series | Doomwatch | Tobias Wren | 1970-02-09 |
Movie | Bam! Pow! Zap! | Arkie | 1969-03-05 |
Movie | The Italian Job | Yellow | 1969-06-02 |
Movie | Walk a Crooked Path | 1969-08-31 | |
Movie | Tower of London: The Innocent | Earl of Warwick | 1969-07-31 |
Movie | Robbery | Deltic Train Guard (uncredited) | 1967-08-01 |
Series | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Unknown | 1966-03-08 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Phoebus | 1951-12-24 |
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