Overview
Robin Ellis
Known For
The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
The Death of Yugoslavia
The Death of Yugoslavia is a BAFTA-award winning BBC documentary...
A Dark Adapted Eye
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the...
Children of the Open Road
Catrine Clay presents the disturbing story of gypsy children abducted...
Biography
Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor and cookery book writer best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in the 29 episodes of the 1975 BBC classic series Poldark, adapted from a series of books by the British author Winston Graham. He also appeared in Fawlty Towers, Cluedo, The Good Soldier (an adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel), Elizabeth R (playing Essex), The Moonstone, Bel Ami, Sense and Sensibility (which also featured Clive Francis), The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, She Loves Me (in which he sings) and Blue Remembered Hills (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015–17 and 2019 he appeared in the Poldark series remake as Reverend Halse.