Robert Lindsay
Birthday: 1949-12-13
Place of Birth: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
Biography: Robert Lindsay Stevenson, better known as Robert Lindsay, is an English actor known for his stage and television work, including appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in musical theatre, and his roles as Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Captain Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family. He has won a BAFTA, a Tony Award and three Olivier Awards for his work.
Movies
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed progra...
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Anything Goes
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unli...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to ...
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Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated but this major show hosted by London’s National Ga...
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Fierce Creatures
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tyco...
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted...
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Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...
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Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who ha...
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Hornblower: Mutiny
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and ar...
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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revoluti...
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The Trial of Tony Blair
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses ...
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Divorcing Jack
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper colum...
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with e...
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Hornblower: Duty
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship whic...
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Hawkins
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschea...
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Hornblower: The Even Chance
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblowe...
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Hornblower: Retribution
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and p...
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Strike It Rich
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever....
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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business....
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Friends & Crocodiles
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and ...
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Grace of Monaco
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political...
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The Job
World In Action documentary filmed in 1992 sees Manchester City Council has advertised for road swee...
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Twelfth Night
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she...
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Remember Me?
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find th...
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Adventures of a Taxi Driver
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations wi...
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A Very Social Secretary
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama ins...
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Gideon's Daughter
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring ...
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Genghis Cohn
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall c...
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Dodger Special: Christmas
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street....
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and e...
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The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of th...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his ...
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....
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The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast...
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Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
Four stories featuring the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 'The Secret Staircase' Primrose and Wilfred set...
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Brazen Hussies
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen H...
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That'll Be The Day
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-l...
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Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery
A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper....
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as th...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love...
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Wimbledon
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high a...
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Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman
The Greatest Showman star Hugh Jackman joins Alex Zane to discuss his career on stage and screen, as...
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Cymbeline
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliati...
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All's Well That Ends Well
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is ...
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The Best of the Adventures
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventure...
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The Crazy Kill
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick,...
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Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf
The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at...
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Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome
Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly-on-the wall documentary broadcast series,...
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Trouble at the Top: Century 105 FM Launch
A documentary about the launch of Century 105 radio station in the English North West. (BBC 2)...
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Babies at 50
In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become...
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Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
During the harvest season, Lord Woodmouse and Primrose go picking blackberries, while Wilfred looks ...
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Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army
Former National Service Conscript - actor, Richard Wilson - takes a light hearted look at this taste...
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Royal Variety Performance 1984
In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Pri...
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The Office
Middle manager Norman is preparing an address to senior management. When an interview with his new b...
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