Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay

1949-12-13 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK 57 Credits

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 

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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

2023

as Narrator

7.8
Acting

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2022

as Oberon

5.0
Acting

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

Dodger Special: Christmas

2022

as William Lamb

Acting

A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

2021

as Moonface Martin

7.9
Acting

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

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2019

as King John

7.3
Acting

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

Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

2018

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

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

Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman

2017

8.0
Acting

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

8.0
Acting

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

The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them

2015

8.0
Acting

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

Grace of Monaco

2014

as Aristotle Onassis

6.0
Acting

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

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

Acting

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

The Trial of Tony Blair

2007

as Tony Blair

6.1
Acting

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

Gideon's Daughter

2005

as Sneath

6.2
Acting

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

A Very Social Secretary

2005

as Tony Blair

6.1
Acting

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

Friends & Crocodiles

2005

as William Sneath

5.1
Acting

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

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

2004

as Bill Snibson (segment "Me and My Girl")

8.0
Acting

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

Wimbledon

2004

as Ian Frazier

6.2
Acting

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

Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection

2004

as Narrator (Voice)

10.0
Acting

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

Hornblower: Duty

2003

as Admiral Sir Edward Pellew

7.3
Acting

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

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

as Admiral Sir Edward Pellew

7.2
Acting

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Hawkins

Hawkins

2001

as Luke Hawkins

Acting

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

Hornblower: Retribution

2001

as Sir Edward Pellew

7.5
Acting

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

Hornblower: Mutiny

2001

as Sir Edward Pellew

7.4
Acting

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

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Various Characters

6.5
Acting

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Babies at 50

Babies at 50

2000

as Narrator

Acting

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

Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery

2000

as Narrator

5.7
Acting

A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper.

Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome

Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome

2000

as Narrator

Acting

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

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

1999

as Sir Edward Pellew

7.3
Acting

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

1999

as Captain Pellew

7.3
Acting

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

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

1998

as Sir Edward Pellew

7.4
Acting

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

Hornblower: The Even Chance

1998

as Captain Sir Edward Pellew

7.4
Acting

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

Divorcing Jack

1998

as Michael Brinn

6.1
Acting

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

Fierce Creatures

1997

as Sydney Lotterby

6.2
Acting

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?

Remember Me?

1997

4.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Brazen Hussies

1996

as Billy Bowman

3.3
Acting

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

Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf

1994

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

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

Genghis Cohn

1993

as Otto Schatz, Commissioner of Police

4.5
Acting

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

The Job

1992

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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

Strike It Rich

1990

as Bertram

5.0
Acting

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

1989

as Bert Rigby

4.8
Acting

A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.

Bosses From Hell

Bosses From Hell

1989

Acting

John Cleese training video about bosses.

Communicators From Hell

Communicators From Hell

1989

Acting

John Cleese training video.

Employees From Hell

Employees From Hell

1989

Acting

John Cleese training video about employees.

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle

1984

as Mickey Noades

Acting

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

1984

as Benedick

6.3
Acting

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

King Lear

1983

as Edmund

6.5
Acting

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

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

1982

as Iachimo

6.6
Acting

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1981

as Lysander

5.0
Acting

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

All's Well That Ends Well

1981

as First French Lord

6.3
Acting

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

The Best of the Adventures

1981

as Tom (archive footage)

5.5
Acting

A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1980

as Fabian

6.7
Acting

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

Adventures of a Taxi Driver

1976

as Tom

5.1
Acting

Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.

Three for All

Three for All

1975

as Tom

1.0
Acting

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

The Crazy Kill

The Crazy Kill

1975

as Policeman at Roadblock

Acting

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

That'll Be The Day

1973

as Terry Sutcliffe

6.3
Acting

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

Trouble at the Top: Century 105 FM Launch

N/A

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

A documentary about the launch of Century 105 radio station in the English North West. (BBC 2)