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Name: Robert Daws
Field:
Actor
Productions:
Robert Daws - Summoned by Betjeman
Robert Daws - Plumber to the Celebrities
After Dinner Speaker Biography:
Over the last decade he has become one of the most familiar faces on British television with many credits including: 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) 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. Films include the title role in Arthur's Dyke, Land of the Blind, According to Colin and The Great Escape Two. Recent theatre work includes last years acclaimed 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 hugely popular West End hit Caught in the Net at the Vaudeville Theatre. Robert also regularly performs his internationally praised 'Summoned by Betjeman', in which he portrays the late Poet Laureate and 'Teddy bear to the nation'. 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. 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. Nigel 'Plumber to the Stars and Star Among Plumbers' Breezer can be found at CelebrityPlumber.tv.
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