Biography
Robert trained at RADA.
His many television credits include: Dr Gordon Ormerod in eight series of The Royal, Sam Mountjoy in three series of John Sullivan's Roger Roger and Tuppy Glossop in four series of Jeeves and Wooster. Also, Roger Dervish in three series of the award- winning Outside Edge. (Nominated Best Actor-British Comedy Awards) Most recently he has appeared in Rock and Chips and New Tricks for the BBC, as well as Doc Martin on ITV. He has also completed filming Jack Whitehall's 'Little Cracker - Daddy's Little Princess'' for Sky.
Other leading roles include hospital manager Simon Eastman in Casualty, Major Hound in Channel Four's Sword of Honour, Dick Thompson in the BBC's Take A Girl Like You, Simon Snell in You Can Choose Your Friends, Oscar Beatty in The Mystery of Men plus countless guest performances in programmes such as Midsomer Murders, The Missing Postman, The Bill, Game Set and Match, Lovejoy, Birds of a Feather, Pie in the Sky, Lovejoy, Embassy, The Dirty Dozen et al and so on. One of his personal favourites was to be a guest on the last ever episode of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, for which he played the Last Post on a trumpet. His own one.
Films include Prof. Gabriel Maynard in the supernatural thriller The Forbidden - 2012 release. Arthur's Dyke, Land of the Blind, According to Colin and The Great Escape Two.
Recent theatre work includes Dietrich in Michael Frayn's 'Alarms and Excursions', Dr John Watson in 'The Secret of Sherlock Holmes' at the Duchess Theatre, and Geoffrey Hammond in 'Public Property' at the Trafalgar Studios. The play was nominated for Best Comedy by Whatsonstage. Also the National tour of Blackbird by David Harrower, for which Robert was nominated for Best Actor in the Manchester Evening News Drama Awards. He also played the frantic taxi driving bigamist John Smith in the hit comedy farce, Caught in the Net at the Vaudeville Theatre. Robert also regularly performs 'Summoned by Betjeman', in which he portays the late Poet Laureate and 'Teddy bear to the nation', John Betjeman.
A regular contributor on radio as actor and broadcaster, Robert has read biographies of both P.G Wodehouse and John Betjeman for Radio 4 and four years ago created the radio series Trueman and Riley in which he plays D.I Trueman. The third series has just been broadast by the BBC and a fourth will be broadcast in the New Year. Most recently he played Prof. David Poll in the comedy series 'Higher' by Joyce Bryant.
He has recently set up a comedy website based on a character that first appeared in Madonna's Plumber on Radio 4.
Robert has three children, Ben, Betsy and May and is married to the actress Amy Robbins.