Known for Acting
Birthday
January 8, 1942
Place of Birth
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Biography
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.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

Poldark

Sherlock Holmes

Play for Today

Fawlty Towers

Wallander

Between the Lines

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Main Chance

Poldark

Timewatch

Shadows of Fear

Churchill's People

Cluedo

Elizabeth R

The Guardians

The Death of Yugoslavia

A Dark Adapted Eye

The Fall of Milosevic