Occupation Actor Role Character actor | Name Robert Urquhart Years active 1952–1994 | |
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TV shows Pathfinders, Brideshead Revisited, Jango, Bleak House, The Inheritors, The Aweful Mr. Goodall, Quest of Eagles Movies The Curse of Frankenstein, Murder at the Gallop, The Dogs of War, The Dark Avenger, Golden Ivory Similar People Valerie Gaunt, Hazel Court, Melvyn Hayes, Terence Fisher, Robert Asher | ||
Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.
He was born in Ullapool, Scotland and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.
Having initially entered the Merchant Navy, he won an ex-Serviceman's scholarship to train at RADA. Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947, while his first film role was in You're Only Young Twice (1952).
He appeared in many television shows of the detective/special-agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the episodes of Danger Man entitled "English Lady Takes Lodgers" and "It's Up To The Lady" (1965) and as the title character in "The Man with the Foot" (1966). He also played the lead role and served as script editor in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion. Urquhart also starred as Wing Commander MacPhearson in the 1970s series Pathfinders.
His wife was Jean Urquhart.
He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.