Robert Powell
Robert Powell
Robert Powellis an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazarethand as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his roles as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, as David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott, and as Tobias 'Toby' Wren in the "science-fact" drama Doomwatch...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 June 1944
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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.
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I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
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A boy is naturally full of humor.
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There is no teaching to compare with example.
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I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
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I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
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I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.
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The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
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When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'
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I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.