Biography
Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born 13 December 1949), better known as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor known for his stage and television work, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in musical theatre, and his roles as Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Captain Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family. He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award and three Olivier Awards for his work. Courtesy of Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
2023
as Narrator
With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring,...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2022
as Oberon
Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and end up changing the world. After all, love changes ...

Dodger Special: Christmas
2022
as William Lamb
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.

Anything Goes
2021
as Moonface Martin
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... p...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019
as King John
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...

Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2018
as Narrator
Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated but this major show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was an event lik...

Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman
2017
The Greatest Showman star Hugh Jackman joins Alex Zane to discuss his career on stage and screen, as well as his favourite movie musicals of all time.
The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
2016
as Self
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive, ...

The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
2015
Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of doll...

Grace of Monaco
2014
as Aristotle Onassis
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and F...

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas ...

The Trial of Tony Blair
2007
as Tony Blair
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal...

Gideon's Daughter
2005
as Sneath
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Di...

A Very Social Secretary
2005
as Tony Blair
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up f...

Friends & Crocodiles
2005
as William Sneath
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Li...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Bill Snibson (segment "Me and My Girl")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...

Wimbledon
2004
as Ian Frazier
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
Four stories featuring the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 'The Secret Staircase' Primrose and Wilfred set off looking for costumes for the Midwinter celebr...

Hornblower: Duty
2003
as Admiral Sir Edward Pellew
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napo...

Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Admiral Sir Edward Pellew
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Hawkins
2001
as Luke Hawkins
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fa...

Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Sir Edward Pellew
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving t...

Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Sir Edward Pellew
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, th...

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Babies at 50
2000
as Narrator
In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become mothers - at any age. Medical experts say that it...

Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery
2000
as Narrator
A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper.

Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome
2000
as Narrator
Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly-on-the wall documentary broadcast series, produced for BBC2. A spin off four-part series, ...

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999
as Sir Edward Pellew
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
1999
as Captain Pellew
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1998
as Sir Edward Pellew
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew...

Hornblower: The Even Chance
1998
as Captain Sir Edward Pellew
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval car...

Divorcing Jack
1998
as Michael Brinn
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as a...

Fierce Creatures
1997
as Sydney Lotterby
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep ...

Remember Me?
1997
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected...
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
1996
as Narrator
During the harvest season, Lord Woodmouse and Primrose go picking blackberries, while Wilfred looks for adventure by trying to find a creature called ...

Brazen Hussies
1996
as Billy Bowman
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging busines...

Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf
1994
as Narrator
The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears ...

Genghis Cohn
1993
as Otto Schatz, Commissioner of Police
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co...

The Job
1992
as Narrator (voice)
World In Action documentary filmed in 1992 sees Manchester City Council has advertised for road sweepers and 1,460 people from a variety of background...

Strike It Rich
1990
as Bertram
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989
as Bert Rigby
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.

Bosses From Hell
1989
John Cleese training video about bosses.

Communicators From Hell
1989
John Cleese training video.

Employees From Hell
1989
John Cleese training video about employees.

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984
as Mickey Noades
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

Much Ado About Nothing
1984
as Benedick
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Be...

King Lear
1983
as Edmund
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Cymbeline
1982
as Iachimo
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1981
as Lysander
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the fore...

All's Well That Ends Well
1981
as First French Lord
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, an...

The Best of the Adventures
1981
as Tom (archive footage)
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!

Twelfth Night
1980
as Fabian
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into ...

Adventures of a Taxi Driver
1976
as Tom
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.

Three for All
1975
as Tom
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

The Crazy Kill
1975
as Policeman at Roadblock
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.

That'll Be The Day
1973
as Terry Sutcliffe
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he di...

Trouble at the Top: Century 105 FM Launch
N/A
as Narrator
A documentary about the launch of Century 105 radio station in the English North West. (BBC 2)