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 | The Queen of Heaven | Jesus / Nikodemus | 2025-04-04 |
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 | 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 | Napoleon 1812 - The Road to Moscow | Narrator | 2005-06-01 |
Movie | Colour Me Kubrick | Robert | 2005-10-06 |
Series | Great SAS Missions | Narrator | 2004-08-04 |
Series | Agatha Christie's Marple | Dr. Haydock | 2004-12-12 |
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 | Pride of Africa | David Webb | 1997-01-01 |
Movie | Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey | 1997-07-14 |
Movie | Batman & Robin | Ice Thug | 1997-06-20 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Barry Jemmerson | 1996-03-16 |
Movie | Misfit Patrol | Officer Peckman (as Robert Pavell) | 1996-12-17 |
Movie | Batman Forever | Harvey's Thug | 1995-06-16 |
Series | Fantomcat | Fantomcat | 1995-09-07 |
Series | The Detectives | Dave Briggs | 1993-01-27 |
Movie | Titanic - The Story | Narrator (voice) | 1993-01-01 |
Series | Great Crimes and Trials | Unknown | 1993-11-02 |
Movie | The Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Victory | Narrator | 1993-06-01 |
Movie | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Unknown | 1993-04-23 |
Series | The Century of Warfare | Unknown | 1993-10-18 |
Series | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr. Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | The Legends of Treasure Island | Dr Livesey (voice) | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | The First Circle | Gleb Nershin | 1992-02-25 |
Movie | The Golden Years | Unknown | 1992-01-02 |
Movie | Il segno del comando | Edward Foster | 1992-03-01 |
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 |
Movie | Chunuk Bair | Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith | 1992-04-25 |
Series | Pebble Mill | Self | 1991-10-14 |
Series | Merlin of the Crystal Cave | Ambrosius | 1991-11-17 |
Movie | Romeo.Juliet | Romeo (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
Series | Canned Carrott | 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 |
Movie | Mahler | Gustav Mahler | 1974-04-04 |
Movie | Death to Sister Mary | Rook | 1974-05-21 |
Series | Thriller | Rook | 1973-04-14 |
Movie | All Systems Go: Alan Garner | Himself | 1973-01-01 |
Movie | Lady Killer | Paul Tanner | 1973-01-18 |
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 | Tower of London: The Innocent | Earl of Warwick | 1969-07-31 |
Movie | Walk a Crooked Path | Unknown | 1969-08-31 |
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 | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Phoebus | 1951-12-24 |