Robert Powell was born on June 1, 1944 in Salford, Manchester, England. In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester University. In 1967, he made his film debut, and later landed his first starring role in The Italian Job (1969). Some of his well known movies include Franco Ziefirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977), Ken Russell's Tommy (1975) and Mahler (1974), the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), and the popular TV series "Doomwatch" (1970). Robert married on 29th August, 1975 to Barbara 'Babs' Lord. They now have a son and a daughter. In 1982, Robert won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Imperative (1982). He won the best actor award at the Paris Film Festival for Harlequin (1980). For his portrayal of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth he 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 Irish Academy of Film and Television arts. In reference to his role as Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth, Robert said, "I hope Jesus Christ will be the last in my line of sensitive young men for quite a while."
Movie | Tales of Television Centre | 2012-05-17 | |
Movie | The Book of Eli | Carnegie Gunman #2 | 2010-01-14 |
Series | World War II in HD Colour | Narrator | 2009-09-04 |
Movie | Colour Me Kubrick | Robert | 2005-10-06 |
Movie | The Queen's Lost Uncle | Narrator | 2003-11-06 |
Movie | Seven Games From Glory | Narrator | 2002-06-25 |
Series | The British Soap Awards | Unknown | 1999-01-01 |
Series | Holby City | Mark Williams | 1999-01-12 |
Series | Secrets of World War II | Self - Narrator | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Batman & Robin | Ice Thug | 1997-06-20 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Barry Jemmerson | 1996-03-16 |
Series | Fantomcat | Fantomcat | 1995-09-07 |
Movie | Batman Forever | Harvey's Thug | 1995-06-16 |
Series | The Detectives | Dave Briggs | 1993-01-27 |
Movie | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | 1993-04-23 | |
Series | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Great Crimes and Trials | 1993-11-02 | |
Movie | The First Circle | Gleb Nershin | 1992-02-25 |
Movie | The Golden Years | 1992-01-02 | |
Movie | Chunuk Bair | Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith | 1992-04-25 |
Movie | Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel | John Barth | 1992-08-20 |
Movie | Il segno del comando | Edward Foster | 1992-03-01 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Unknown | 1991-10-14 |
Series | Canned Carrott | 1990-10-03 | |
Series | Hannay | Richard Hannay | 1988-01-06 |
Movie | Love Sins | Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1987-01-30 |
Movie | Down There in the Jungle | Kruger | 1986-01-01 |
Series | Shaka Zulu | Dr. Henry Fynn | 1986-10-24 |
Movie | The Wandering Company | Narrator (voice) | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | 1984-06-17 |
Movie | What Waits Below | Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen | 1984-11-19 |
Movie | The Jigsaw Man | Jamie Fraser | 1983-11-11 |
Series | Countdown | Unknown | 1982-11-02 |
Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Phoebus | 1982-02-02 |
Movie | Imperative | Augustin | 1982-04-01 |
Movie | Pygmalion | Higgins | 1981-01-01 |
Movie | The Survivor | Keller | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Jane Austen in Manhattan | Pierre | 1980-07-01 |
Movie | Harlequin | Gregory Wolfe | 1980-03-28 |
Movie | The Four Feathers | Jack Durrance | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The Thirty Nine Steps | Richard Hannay | 1978-11-04 |
Series | An Audience with... | Himself | 1978-01-08 |
Series | Jesus of Nazareth | Jesus | 1977-03-27 |
Movie | Beyond Good and Evil | Paul Rée | 1977-10-05 |
Movie | Tommy | Captain Walker | 1975-03-19 |
Series | Looking for Clancy | Frank Clancy | 1975-05-24 |
Movie | Mahler | Gustav Mahler | 1974-04-04 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1973-04-14 |
Movie | Running Scared | Tom Betancourt | 1972-05-01 |
Movie | The Asphyx | Giles Cunningham | 1972-12-05 |
Series | Crown Court | Unknown | 1972-10-11 |
Movie | Asylum | Dr. Martin | 1972-11-17 |
Series | The Edwardians | Unknown | 1972-11-21 |
Movie | Secrets | Allan Wood | 1971-09-21 |
Series | Jude the Obscure | Jude Fawley | 1971-02-06 |
Series | A Ghost Story for Christmas | Himself | 1971-12-24 |
Series | Doomwatch | Tobias Wren | 1970-02-09 |
Movie | The Italian Job | Yellow | 1969-06-02 |
Movie | Bam! Pow! Zap! | Arkie | 1969-03-05 |
Movie | Tower of London: The Innocent | Earl of Warwick | 1969-07-31 |
Movie | Robbery | Deltic Train Guard (uncredited) | 1967-08-01 |
Series | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Unknown | 1966-03-08 |
Series | BBC Play of the Month | Valentine | 1965-10-19 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |