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Name: Robert Powell
Field: Actor
Productions:
English Eccentrics- Prunella Scales
Barry Norman's Favourite Films
Anthony Trollope - with Edward Fox
Fun and Games- Robert Powell
Saints and Sinners- Robert Powell,Charles Dance or Edward Fox
Christmas Show - Robert Powell
An Audience with Brian Rix
Victorian Evening - Robert Powell

Biography: Robert's extensive theatre credits include A Smashing Day at the Arts Theatre; Ubu Roi and Pirates at the Royal Court Theatre; Hamlet at the Leeds Playhouse; The Lady from the Sea (Greenwich Theatre); Glasstown (Prospect Theatre Company); Travesties by Tom Stoppard for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Terra Nova at the Watford Palace Theatre; Private Dick at the Whitehall Theatre; Tovarich at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and a season in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre. He starred in Sherlock Holmes - The Musical at the Bristol Old Vic and then in a national tour.

For his portrayal of "Jesus" in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, Robert received Best Actor awards from TV Times and Italian TV Times, the International Arts Prize at the Fiuggi Film Festival, Grand Prize at the Saint-Vincent Film Festival, and a nomination as Best Actor from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Other television appearances include Doomwatch, the title role in the 1971 BBC TV film Shelley, "Jude" in the BBC TV serial Jude the Obscure, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Mr Rolls and Mr Royce, and Looking for Clancy. He starred in the as Richard Hannay in 2 series of Hannay. and has made 5 series of the TV comedy series The Detectives.

Robert's many films include Secrets, Running Scared, The Asphyx, Beyond Good and Evil, Asylum, The Jigsaw Man, and Krzystof Zanussi’s Long Conversation with a Bird