Biography
Richard Hope is a British actor who gained recognition from Brideshead Revisited as the doltish junior officer, Hooper, under Jeremy Irons charge. He is best known for playing Harris Pascoe in the UK TV drama Poldark.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Cleaner
2025
as Alistair Lawson
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 st...

The Village in the Woods
2021
as Charles
When a young couple from the wrong side of the tracks decide to take on an inheritance fraud job, little do they know that they have accepted a fate f...

We All Just Want to Be Mad
2020
as The Wide(r) Man
Arabella has her eye on Fred which means it's not easy. So when she (and Fred) attend the Tall Man's party, she is self conscious. Afterwards, to make...

Finding Your Feet
2017
as Care Home Manager
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Mr. Morgan's Last Love
2013
as Stamp Collector
A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

King Lear
2012
as Duke of Albany
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejec...

The Shell Seekers
2007
as George Chamberlaine
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives ...

The Thieving Headmistress
2006
as Auditor Andy Pert
A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is foun...

Chromophobia
2006
as Simon Whitemore
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

Riot at the Rite
2005
as Grigoriev
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor St...

The Government Inspector
2005
as Richard Sambrook
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.

A Is for Acid
2002
as Dr. Archie Henderson
Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in t...

The Honeytrap
2002
as Detective Fowler
A woman is forced to confront her dark side when she investigates her husband's suspected infidelity.

My Brother Tom
2001
as Jessica's Dad
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and scho...

The Sea Change
1998
as Alistair
Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only Ali...

Alive and Kicking
1996
as Karaoke Doctor
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes...

Feast of July
1995
as Squire Wyman
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
The Last Post
1995
as Man
A man and a woman both frantically try to catch the last post, but could be connected beyond the outer envelopes.

Swords at Teatime
1992
as Dennis
Michael climbs on to the roof of the block of flats where he lives with his mother, and finds a world of make-believe, duels, and chickens existing ov...
'Itch
1991
as Geoff
A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Children Crossing
1990
as Tom
Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey which keeps y...

Antonia and Jane
1990
as Norman Beer
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest f...

Death Has A Bad Reputation
1990
as Spry
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.

A Casualty of War
1989
as Donald Spry
David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage fo...

Burning Ambition
1988
as Martin's Father / Mr. Saunders / Motorway Buff
When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're ...

Bellman and True
1987
as Salto
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the inf...

See You at Wembley, Frankie Walsh
1987
as Malcolm
What do you do when you have only two passions in life - Hull City Football Club and your girlfriend Carol? Normally, you survive -just. Until that i...

Plenty
1985
as Alistair
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

The Innocent
1985
as Mouth Organ Player
A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mo...

Laughterhouse
1984
as Hubert
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

Scandalous
1984
as Young Detective
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

Simulation Exercise
1984
as Mr Exton
'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice...

Wayne and Albert
1983
as Second ambulanceman
When Wayne has to go and live with his grandfather Albert, they both initially resent the arrangement. Hostilities soften when they discover some comm...

The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as 3rd Assistant
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...

Breaking Glass
1980
as Audition Musician
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manag...

Bloody Kids
1980
as Police 2
Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
as Atillio
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage a...

By Common Consent
1975
as Security Official
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Y...