
Robert Powell was born 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 | 2001 Events | Jesús | 2026 |
Movie | The Queen of Heaven | Jesus / Nikodemus | 2026-12-18 |
Movie | Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs | Self | 2023-10-21 |
Movie | Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life | Himself | 2018-11-15 |
Series | The Real Jesus of Nazareth | Host | 2017-04-16 |
Movie | Tales of Television Centre | Self | 2012-05-17 |
Series | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant | 2011-10-24 |
Movie | The Book of Eli | Carnegie Gunman #2 | 2010-01-14 |
Series | International Terrorism Since 1945 | Narrator (voice) | 2009-01-05 |
Series | World War II in Colour | Narrator | 2009-09-04 |
Movie | The Cult Of Doomwatch | Unknown | 2006-11-21 |
Movie | Napoleon 1812 - The Road to Moscow | Narrator | 2005-06-01 |
Movie | Colour Me Kubrick | Robert | 2005-10-06 |
Series | Agatha Christie's Marple | Dr. Haydock | 2004-12-12 |
Series | Great SAS Missions | Narrator | 2004-08-04 |
Movie | The Queen's Lost Uncle | Narrator | 2003-11-06 |
Movie | Seven Games from Glory | Narrator | 2002-06-25 |
Movie | The Second World War in Color | Narrator (voice) | 1999-01-01 |
Series | Holby City | Mark Williams | 1999-01-12 |
Movie | Pride of Africa | David Webb | 1997-01-01 |
Movie | Batman & Robin | Ice Thug | 1997-06-20 |
Movie | Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey | 1997-07-14 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Barry Jemmerson | 1996-03-16 |
Movie | Batman Forever | Harvey's Thug | 1995-06-16 |
Series | Fantomcat | Fantomcat | 1995-09-07 |
Series | Great Crimes and Trials | Unknown | 1993-11-02 |
Series | The Detectives | Dave Briggs | 1993-01-27 |
Movie | Titanic - The Story | Narrator (voice) | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | The Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Victory | Narrator | 1993-06-01 |
Movie | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Unknown | 1993-04-23 |
Movie | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Series | The Century of Warfare | Unknown | 1993-10-18 |
Series | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | Il segno del comando | Prof. Edward Foster | 1992-03-01 |
Movie | The Golden Years | Unknown | 1992-01-02 |
Movie | The First Circle | Gleb Nershin | 1992-02-25 |
Movie | Chunuk Bair | Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith | 1992-04-25 |
Movie | The English Civil Wars | Narrator | 1992-06-01 |
Movie | Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel | John Barth | 1992-08-20 |
Movie | The Boer War: 1899-1902 | Narrator | 1992-07-01 |
Series | Merlin of the Crystal Cave | Ambrosius | 1991-11-17 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Self | 1991-10-14 |
Movie | Merlin Of The Crystal Cave | Ambrosius | 1991-11-17 |
Movie | Romeo.Juliet | Romeo (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
Series | Canned Carrott | Unknown | 1990-10-03 |
Series | Keeping Up Appearances | Cabbie | 1990-10-29 |
Series | Hannay | Richard Hannay | 1988-01-06 |
Movie | Down There in the Jungle | Kruger | 1988-02-04 |
Movie | Love Sins | Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1987-01-30 |
Movie | Classic Ghost Stories | Professor | 1986-12-31 |
Series | Shaka Zulu | Dr. Henry Fynn | 1986-10-24 |
Series | Classic Ghost Stories | Professor | 1986-12-25 |
Movie | Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | 1984-06-17 |
Movie | The Wandering Company | Narrator (voice) | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | What Waits Below | Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen | 1984-11-19 |
Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
Movie | The Jigsaw Man | Jamie Fraser | 1983-11-11 |
Movie | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Phoebus | 1982-02-02 |
Series | Countdown | Unknown | 1982-11-02 |
Movie | Imperative | Augustin | 1982-04-01 |
Movie | The Survivor | Keller | 1981-07-09 |
Movie | Pygmalion | Higgins | 1981-12-27 |
Movie | Jane Austen in Manhattan | Pierre | 1980-07-01 |
Movie | Walkabout to Hollywood | Narrator (voice) | 1980-02-11 |
Movie | Harlequin | Gregory Wolfe | 1980-03-28 |
Series | An Audience with... | Self | 1978-01-08 |
Movie | The Four Feathers | Jack Durrance | 1978-01-01 |
Movie | The Thirty Nine Steps | Richard Hannay | 1978-11-04 |
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 |
Series | Zodiac | Brian Godfrey | 1974-02-25 |
Movie | Mahler | Gustav Mahler | 1974-04-04 |
Movie | Death to Sister Mary | Rook | 1974-05-21 |
Movie | Lady Killer | Paul Tanner | 1973-01-18 |
Movie | All Systems Go: Alan Garner | Himself | 1973-01-01 |
Series | Thriller | Rook | 1973-04-14 |
Movie | Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1972-07-05 |
Movie | Running Scared | Tom Betancourt | 1972-05-01 |
Movie | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Frank Gardner | 1972-10-03 |
Series | The Edwardians | Unknown | 1972-11-21 |
Movie | The Asphyx | Giles Cunningham | 1972-12-05 |
Movie | Asylum | Dr. Martin | 1972-11-17 |
Series | Crown Court | Lance Porter | 1972-10-11 |
Series | Jude the Obscure | Jude Fawley | 1971-02-06 |
Movie | Secrets | Allan Wood | 1971-09-21 |
Movie | Season of the Witch | Shaun | 1970-01-07 |
Movie | The Hunting of Lionel Crane | Lionel Crane | 1970-01-21 |
Series | Doomwatch | Tobias Wren | 1970-02-09 |
Movie | Bam! Pow! Zap! | Arkie | 1969-03-05 |
Movie | The Italian Job | Yellow | 1969-06-02 |
Movie | Walk a Crooked Path | Unknown | 1969-08-31 |
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 | Phoebus | 1951-12-24 |
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