Robert Lindsay
Popularity:5.919
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1949-12-13
Place of Birth:Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
Homepage:http://www.robertlindsay.net/
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas...
Anything Goes (2021)
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love......
Broadway's Lost Treasures II (2004)
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on...
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2018)
Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated but this major show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was...
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep...
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998)
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his...
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition (2023)
With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl...
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship,...
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special...
Divorcing Jack (1998)
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as...
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where...
Hawkins (2001)
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is...
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval...
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving...
Strike It Rich (1990)
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
Friends & Crocodiles (2005)
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades...
Grace of Monaco (2014)
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and...
The Job (1992)
World In Action documentary filmed in 1992 sees Manchester City Council has advertised for road sweepers and 1,460 people from a variety of...
Three for All (1975)
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Twelfth Night (1980)
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...
Remember Me? (1997)
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the...
Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976)
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
A Very Social Secretary (2005)
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up...
Gideon's Daughter (2005)
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and...
Genghis Cohn (1994)
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is...
Dodger Special: Christmas (2022)
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle (1984)
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2022)
Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and end up changing the world. After all, love changes...
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them (2015)
Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions...
King Lear (1983)
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl (2016)
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive,...
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection (2004)
Four stories featuring the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 'The Secret Staircase' Primrose and Wilfred set off looking for costumes for the Midwinter...
Brazen Hussies (1996)
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging...
That'll Be The Day (1973)
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he...
Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery (2000)
A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the...
Wimbledon (2004)
British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it...
Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman (2017)
The Greatest Showman star Hugh Jackman joins Alex Zane to discuss his career on stage and screen, as well as his favourite movie musicals of all time.
Cymbeline (1982)
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who...
Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio,...
All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill,...
The Best of the Adventures (1981)
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!
The Crazy Kill (1975)
A doctor and his wife are held hostage in their country home by an escaped convict and his sidekick, but a journalist's arrival complicates matters.
Trouble at the Top: Nightmare at Canary Wharf (1994)
The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears...
Trouble at the Big Top: Death of the Dome (2000)
Trouble at the Top was a business-based BBC television fly-on-the wall documentary broadcast series, produced for BBC2. A spin off four-part series,...
Trouble at the Top: Century 105 FM Launch (1970)
A documentary about the launch of Century 105 radio station in the English North West. (BBC 2)
Babies at 50 (2000)
In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become mothers - at any age. Medical experts say that...
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night (1996)
During the harvest season, Lord Woodmouse and Primrose go picking blackberries, while Wilfred looks for adventure by trying to find a creature called...
Bosses From Hell (1989)
John Cleese training video about bosses.
Communicators From Hell (1989)
John Cleese training video.
Employees From Hell (1989)
John Cleese training video about employees.
Hornblower (1998)
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
Space Race (2005)
The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.
G.B.H. (1991)
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael...
My Family (2000)
Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of...
The One Show (2006)
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...
Get Some In! (1975)
Get Some In! is a British comedy series set in the 1950's that focused on the Royal Air Force National Service. The show was broadcast between 1975...
The Good Life (1975)
Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of...
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
Castaway 2000 (2000)
36 volunteers spend the year 2000 on the island of Taransay finding out what happens when a cross-section of British people try to create a new...
Citizen Smith (1977)
Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie...
Absolutely Fabulous (1992)
Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up...
Nightingales (1990)
Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was written by Paul Makin and...
Don't Eat the Neighbours (2001)
Don't Eat the Neighbours is a children's comedy series that originally aired in the United Kingdom and Canada in 2001-2002. It was filmed mainly with...
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to...
Oliver Twist (1999)
Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
Britain's Most Beautiful Landscapes (2021)
Take a breathtaking visual journey through some of Britain's most beautiful and extraordinary landscapes, to admire the wonders and encounter the...
Jake's Progress (1995)
Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.
Natural World (1983)
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...
Seconds Out (1981)
Pete Dodds is a boxer and a bit of a wide boy who messes about in the ring, but has potential. Tony Sprake becomes his manager and Dave Locket his...
Spy (2011)
When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for...
Jericho (2005)
Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay...
Confessional (1989)
A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to...
The World's Most Beautiful Landscapes (2021)
Take a breathtaking visual journey through some of the world's most beautiful and extraordinary landscapes, to admire the wonders and encounter the...
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks (2017)
Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British...
Atlantis (2013)
A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of...
Extras (2005)
Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter...
Galavant (2015)
Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Prince Galavant lost the love of his life, Madalena, to the evil King Richard. Now, our fallen hero is ready to...
An Audience with... (1978)
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...
Generation Z (2024)
Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire.
The Wimbledon Poisoner (1994)
Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.
Wogan (1982)
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (1970)
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't...
Walks with My Dog (2017)
Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.
Genius (2017)
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships,...
Give us a Break (1983)
Geoff McQueen's classic BBC comedy drama set in the wheeler-dealing world of London's snooker halls starring two of Britain's most popular actors....
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) (2014)
This series is presented by self-confessed Python nut Hugh Bonneville, each show with a group of five famous comedians remembering their favourite...
Sherwood (2022)
Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley...
McDonald & Dodds (2020)
Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and...
Parkinson (1998)
Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge (1996)
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge is a stop-motion animated series based on the Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem. The show was produced by...
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge (1970)
Chronicles the birth of our planet from the chaos of the early solar system to the beginnings of life, compressing the entire history of the earth...