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Robert Powell is a Actor and Stunt Double British born on 1 june 1944 at Salford (United-kingdom)

Robert Powell

Robert Powell
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 june 1944 (79 years) at Salford (United-kingdom)

Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, and as David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott.

His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries, especially in World War II documentaries such as World War II in HD Colour, Hitler's Bodyguard, The Story of the Third Reich and Secrets of World War II.

Biography

Après être passé par la Manchester Grammar School et fréquenté l'université de Manchester, Powell s’oriente vers l’art dramatique. Il décroche un petit rôle dans "L'or se barre" (the Italian Job). Il obtient son premier succès, en jouant le scientifique Toby Wren dans la série Doomwatch produite par la BBC en 1970. Dès lors, il enchaîne les rôles dans plusieurs feuilletons de la télévision britannique et devient un visage familier pour les téléspectateurs anglais.

Durant ces années où il continue d’être une valeur sûre du petit écran, il fait quelques timides incursions au cinéma, comme dans Mahler en 1974. Il joue également le capitaine Walker dans le film Tommy de Ken Russell en 1975.

Franco Zeffirelli le retient à la suite d’une seconde audition pour interpréter Jésus Christ dans la série télévisée commandée par le pape Paul VI. Pour ce rôle, Powell est nommé pour un BAFTA Award et récolte le TV Times Best Actor award.

En 1978, Powell enchaîne sur le rôle de Richard Hannay dans une troisième version des Trente Neuf Marches, mais c'est un échec. En 1982, il remporte le prix du meilleur acteur au festival de Venise pour son rôle dans Imperativ.

Best films

Bulletproof (1996)
(Stunt Double)

Usually with

Ken Russell
Ken Russell
(3 films)
Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker
(3 films)
Peter Yates
Peter Yates
(2 films)
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
(1 films)
David Kelly
David Kelly
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Powell (32 films)

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Actor

Capitalism: A Love Story, 2h7
Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films
Actors Thora Birch, Michael Moore, Robert Powell, Wallace Shawn, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rating73% 3.698083.698083.698083.698083.69808
The film begins with a series of security footages of armed bank robberies (one of the robbers was on a crutch) accompanied by the song Louie, Louie. Moore then uses an Encyclopædia Britannica archive video to compare and view modern-day America with the Roman Empire, by juxtaposing depictions of the fall of the Roman Empire with similar modern-day American issues. The film then depicts home videos of families being evicted from their homes, as well as the "Condo Vultures," a Florida real estate agency whose business flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures.
Colour Me Kubrick, 1h27
Directed by Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, L'usurpation d'identité, Films about psychiatry, Escroquerie
Actors John Malkovich, Marisa Berenson, Marc Warren, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Ken Russell
Roles Robert
Rating60% 3.047593.047593.047593.047593.04759
Colour Me Kubrick begins with a direct homage to A Clockwork Orange with the after-effects of one of Alan Conway's (Malkovich) minor cons: two thugs are sent to collect a bar bill that Conway has generated by impersonating Kubrick. Conway has provided the address of an elderly couple as Kubrick's home address. Conway is nowhere to be seen, and the thugs are arrested by the police for causing a ruckus outside the house.
Batman & Robin, 2h5
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Batman films, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Eco-terrorism in fiction
Actors Michael Paul Chan, John Glover, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vivica A. Fox, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell
Roles Ice Thug
Rating38% 1.904481.904481.904481.904481.90448
Batman and Robin fail to stop Mr. Freeze from stealing a cache of diamonds. They learn that Freeze was once a scientist named Victor Fries, who became dependent on a diamond-powered subzero suit following an accident in a cryogenics lab while working to save his wife, Nora, from a terminal illness called MacGregor's Syndrome.
Chunuk Bair, 1h50
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Karl Urban, Robert Powell, John Leigh
Roles Sgt. Maj. Frank Smith
Rating65% 3.2716453.2716453.2716453.2716453.271645
Love Sins
Love Sins (1987)
, 1h53
Genres Biography
Themes Films about writers
Actors Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli, Laurent Terzieff, Florence Guérin, Sonia Petrovna, Teresa Ann Savoy
Roles Gabriele D'Annunzio
Rating62% 3.1348553.1348553.1348553.1348553.134855
The film focuses the Decadentism, that develops in France and Italy in the late 19th century. Gabriele d'Annunzio is a more said poet, coming from the rural region of Abruzzo, precisely from the seaside town of Pescara. He is already famous for his aesthetic poetry, and he's also a journalist in Rome. There d'Annunzio begins to spend his days in a worldly, living purely in art and in full wealth. He hates democracy, even more mass, and look for the passion and pleasure in the rich ladies of the court, until he meets the noble Elvira Fraternali Leoni, who she's affectionately called "Barbara". This love arouses in d'Annunzio of the inspiration for the writing of his first great novel of the Decadentism: The Pleasure (Il Piacere).
What Waits Below, 1h28
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Actors Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Anne Heywood, Richard Johnson, Liam Sullivan
Roles Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen
Rating47% 2.3618952.3618952.3618952.3618952.361895
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens (Bottoms) and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen (Powell) including scientist Leslie Peterson (Blount) are sent in to find out what happened.
The Jigsaw Man, 1h31
Directed by Terence Young, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray, Michael Medwin
Roles Jamie Fraser
Rating51% 2.551672.551672.551672.551672.55167
Sir Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays MI6 and the KGB off against each other.
Imperative
Imperative (1982)
, 1h42
Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron, Matthias Habich, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Roles Augustin
Rating67% 3.367773.367773.367773.367773.36777
Augustin, professeur trentenaire, universitaire passionné par les mathématiques auxquelles il consacre tout son temps, et jusqu'à présent farouche laïque, est soudainement assailli par des questions existentielles : quelle est la signification de la vie ? Existe-t-il un dieu ? Qu'y a-t-il après la mort ? Sa quête spirituelle l'emmène aux frontières de la folie.
La Chanson du mal-aimé, 1h52
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Rufus, Catherine Belkhodja, Christine Boisson, Robert Powell, Béatrice Bruno, Mark Burns
Rating66% 3.343023.343023.343023.343023.34302
Biographie de la vie de Guillaume Apollinaire.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1h40
Directed by Alan Hume
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Lesley-Anne Down, John Gielgud, Tim Pigott-Smith
Roles Phoebus
Rating62% 3.14693.14693.14693.14693.1469
Frollo, l'archidiacre de Notre Dame est tombé amoureux de la gitane Esméralda. Accusée de vol il lui accorde l'asile mais elle refuse ses avances et s'enfuit. Quasimodo le sonneur de cloches difforme et bossu la rattrape, Pierre Gringoire, un poète de rue tente de la faire échapper mais se fait assommer par Quasimodo. Ce dernier est finalement intercepté par les hommes de la garde royale commandé par Phoebus. Esmeralda tombe amoureuse de ce dernier. Pendant ce temps Pierre Gringoire est capturé par l'assemblé des voleurs et des vagabonds qui le condamne à la pendaison. Esméralda refuse ce jugement et le prend pour époux (pendant quatre ans) uniquement pour lui sauver la vie. Quasimodo est condamné à recevoir le fouet et à être exposé au pilori, Esméralda a pitié de lui et lui donne à boire. Frollo, apprenant qu'Esméralda a rendez-vous dans un hôtel borgne avec Phoebus se rend sur les lieux et poignarde le militaire. Esméralda est capturée, soupçonnée, torturée, jugée et condamnée à la pendaison. Quasimodo la sauve et la fait se réfugier dans l'église. Phoebus a survécu mais se refuse à intervenir pour casser la condamnation d'Esméralda qui repousse toujours les avances de Frollo. Ce dernier demande donc au parlement un édit annulant le droit d'asile de la jeune femme. Apprenant la nouvelle, Gringoire pousse l'assemblée des voleurs et des vagabonds à attaquer la cathédrale pour tenter de sauver la jeune femme. Quasimodo se méprenant sur les intentions des assaillants les empêche d'entrer en lançant de lourds projectiles.