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Robert Urquhart (actor) was born on 16 October, 1922 in Ullapool, Scotland, is an actor. Discover Robert Urquhart (actor)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Actor, hotelier |
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73 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
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16 October, 1922 |
Birthday |
16 October |
Birthplace |
Ullapool, Scotland |
Date of death |
(1995-03-21) Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Robert Urquhart (actor) Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Robert Urquhart (actor) Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Robert Urquhart (actor) worth at the age of 73 years old? Robert Urquhart (actor)’s income source is mostly from being a successful actor. He is from . We have estimated
Robert Urquhart (actor)'s net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In 1995, he died in an hospital in Edinburgh, shortly after his second heart bypass surgery, at the age of 72 years.
Late in his career, he had various roles in films, including Restless Natives (1985), Man on the Screen (1987), The Long Roads (1993), and Master of the Moor (1994).
He returned to the stage in 1982, as Friedrich Wilhelm in the National Theatres production of The Prince of Homburg at the Cottesloe Theatre (now Dorfman Theatre) of the Royal National Theatre in London. In 1982, he was again cast in The Thrie Estaitis for the 36th Edinburgh International Film Festival. He also played the role of Father Dolan, in The Shaughraun at the Olivier Theatre of the Royal National Theatre from April 1988 to January 1990.
In 1982, he had the role Quartering Commandant in the television series Brideshead Revisited. The next year, he played Tom Stockman in Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People and the series The Old Men at the Zoo. He also had roles in the television films P'Tang Yang Kipperbang in 1982 and Sharma and Beyond in 1984. In 1994, he was cast in an episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.
Urquhart also starred as Wing Commander MacPhearson in the 1970s series Pathfinders. He played a drunken journalist in the television movie The Reporters which was shown on Play for Today in 1972. His other made–for–television films included The Inheritors in 1973 and The Aweful Mr. Goodall in 1974. In 1978, he played teacher George Jenkins in a television adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He acted in "Children of the Full Moon", an episode of Hammer House of Horror in 1980.
He spent much of his later years in the Scottish Highlands. In 1970, he turned the boat shed attached to his childhood home in Ullappool into a coffee shop called Ceilidh Place. Adding the house and the house next door, they expanded the venture into an hotel, arts centre, and concert hall which he managed with his wife Jean.
He returned to the stage in 1953 with The Merchant of Venice at The Old Vic in London. In 195t7, he performed in Restless Heart at St. James's Theatre in London and the Theatre Royal, Brighton. This was followed by a six-month run of Speaking of Murder at St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End in 1958. From 24 April 1965 to 16 July 1966, he was in the cast of Half a Sixpence, a comic musical, at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway.
In the 1960s, Urquhart appeared in many television shows of the detective/special-agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Saint, and The Avengers. He also played the lead role and served as script editor in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion. He played opposite Patrick McGoohan in the episodes of Danger Man in 1966.
His first film role was in You're Only Young Twice in 1952. That same year, he was also in the films Tread Softly, Paul Temple Returns, and Isn't Life Wonderful. He then secured a contract with Associated British Picture Corporation, making films such as Knights of the Round Table (1953), Happy Ever After (1954), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Yangtse Incident (1957), The Bulldog Breed (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Mosquito Squadron (1969), and The Looking Glass War (1970).
In 1950, he made his West End debut with the role of Captain Hugh Ardale in The Second Mrs Tanqueray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He also played Horatio in Hamlet at the West End's New Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre), with Alec Guinness in the title role.
Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947 at the Park Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. That same year, he was cast in Tyrone Guthrie's production of The Thrie Estaitis for the 1st Edinburgh Festival. This led to a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1948, performing Hamlet, King John, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida, and The Winter’s Tale. Next, he did repertory work in Edinburgh at the Little Rep and in Glasgow at the Citizen's Theatre.
After school, he entered the Merchant Navy and went to Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa as an apprentice before earning third mate's papers. He continued his service during World War II. In 1942, he left the Merchant Navy after his ship was torpedoed three times and worked in Glasgow's docklands.
Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who worked on the stage, for British television, and in film. His breakthrough role was Paul Krempe in The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957, along with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.