Robert Powell

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Robert Powell (born June 1, 1944) is an English actor and voice actor best known for his roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), as well as his appearance as a shadow agent in Richard Hannay's The Thirty Nine Steps and its sequel spinoff television series.

Mark Williams appeared on BBC One medical drama Holby City, 2005-2011, David Briggs with Jasper Carrott, and Toby 'Toby' Wren in the science-fiction film Doomwatch. His distinctive voice has made it into advertisements and documentaries, particularly in World War II documentaries such as World War II: Color, Hitler's Bodyguard, The History of the Third Reich, and The Secrets of World War II. Powell has been nominated for a BAFTA Award and has been named as the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor Award.

Early life

Powell, the son of Kathleen (née Davis) and John Wilson Powell, was born in Salford, Lancashire. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School (then a compulsory grant grammar school) and studied law at the University of Manchester.

Personal life

Backstage at the BBC, Powell met his future wife, the Pan's People dancer Barbara "Babs" Lord. The couple were married in 1975, shortly before he was set to begin filming for Jesus of Nazareth on location in Tunisia. They had their son, Barney, on the 23rd of November 1977, and Kate, their daughter, in 1979.

The couple retired from sailing as a pastime. Babs Lord competed in the BT Global Yacht Challenge and the Polar Challenge. Both took part in a round-the-world competition in 2000, but Powell himself was only onboard for one leg of the event.

Powell, a founder member of the Social Democratic Party in 1981, campaigned alongside Barry Norman on behalf of the party's first leader, Roy Jenkins.

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Career

Powell began acting as an undergraduate, but he appeared on BBC Radio Children's Hour in Manchester, where he was under the care of producer Trevor Hill, as detailed in Hill's autobiography, Over the Airwaves. He has been offered a post at a repertory theatre in Stoke-on-Trent. His first film role was in Robbery (1967), which starred Stanley Baker and was about the Great Train Robbery, in which he appeared as the second man or locomotive driver's assistant. He appeared in the original film version of The Italian Job (1969), as one of the gang, but he had to wait a few years for his first success, playing scientist Toby Wren in the BBC's science fiction series Doomwatch in 1970.

Powell became a pin-up and a household name after being killed in a bomb blast in Doomwatch right at the end of Series One, as well as television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education (1970) and Jude the Obscure (1971). In the miniseries The Edwardians, he portrayed Charles Rolls from 1972 to 1977. In 1973, he appeared in the very first episode of the British series Thriller. He appeared in the 1975 series Looking for Clancy, which was based on the Frederic Mullally novel Clancy.

Powell played regularly on television for several years, with occasional forays into film as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in the Ken Russell biopic Mahler (1974) and Captain Walker in Russell's film adaptation of Tommy (1975). Tommy's role in Tommy was brief, speaking only during Ann-Margret's overture, but he was mostly seen through his son's mind as played by Barry Winch (Young Tommy) and Roger Daltrey.

Following a fruitful second audition with Franco Zeffirelli, he appeared in Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Laurence Olivier as Nicodemus, Ernest Borgnine as the Roman Centurion, Stacy Keach as Barabbas, Christopher Plummer as John the Baptist, Michael York as John the Baptist, and John McGee as Joseph of Arimathea. Powell was nominated for a BAFTA award and received the TVTime Best Actor award for the same role. His complete portrayal of Christ is often regarded as one of the best depictions of Christ.

In the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps in 1978, Powell played Richard Hannay. It met with modest success, and commentators compared Powell's portrayal of John Buchan's character to that of his predecessors. His characterisation remained to be enduring, as nearly ten years later a television series named simply Hannay appeared with Powell (although the Buchan short stories on which the series was based were set in a earlier period than The Thirty Steps). Hannay appeared on television for two seasons.

Powell appeared in the film Harlequin of 1980, who seems to have the ability to heal the son of a wealthy politician. He received the Best Actor Award at the Paris Film Festival for his role in this film. He received the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival in 1982 for his role in Imperativ.

Powell made his U.S. film debut in What Waits Below (also known as Secrets of the Phantom Caverns).

Powell narrated and co-starred in William C. Faure's miniseries Shaka Zulu in 1986, with Henry Cele in the title role. He appeared in Chunuk Bair, the New Zealand World War I film, as Sgt Maj Frank Smith in 1992. He appeared on Dr Livesey in The Legends of Treasure Island from 1993 to 1995.

In a sequence of sketches that became part of Carrott's television series, Powell obliged to a request from his friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, to play an incompetent detective. The Detectives were very popular and was later turned into a sitcom, Powell's first and only venture into this field.

Powell's distinctive voice is often heard on voice-overs and as a narrator of television shows such as Great Crimes and Trials, The Century of Warfare and World War II in HD In HD Colour. He read the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garca Márquez for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, and has also narrated numerous audio books, including The Thirty Nine Steps, abridged versions of many of Alan Garner's books, as well as several abridged versions of several of his author's books and several abridged versions of several of Alan Garner's books and several abridged versions of n Powell has also contributed to musical performances, such as David Bedford's album The Rime of the Ancient Mariner or the 2002 rock opera The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which he appeared as John Watson. Cost of Living and The Gospels (1987), Rick Wakeman's two rock albums Cost of Living and The Gospels (1987).

After being opened at the University of Salford on September 29, a state-of-the-art theatre was named. In 2004, he became a patron of the 24:7 Theatre Festival and continues to serve in this role. He became a regular on the UK television medical drama, Holby City, where he spent six years before relocating to theatre in early 2005. He appeared as narrator in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa in the North of England on February 9, 2008. On BBC4's The Book Quiz, Powell was a series announcer (19 episodes) from 2008-2009.

Powell first appeared as a hospital administrator in BBC soap opera Holby City in 2005. He said regular participation in the series helped him avoid financial hardships resulting from the failure of the pension fund he held with The Equitable Life Assurance Society's death.

He appeared in a Smithsonian Channel Documentary Series based on his portrayal of the Franco Zeffirelli mini-series Jesus of Nazareth, narrated by Judd Hirsch, on Sunday. It was based in Israel and it juxtaposed Jesus' life with excerpts from the film film in which Powell appeared in 1977. The characters who appeared in the film were also explored, as well as their historical significance. The series was divided into four segments, each one hour long, discussing historical aspects of the tale alongside Powell's interview with biblical historians such as Helen Bond and Candida Moss. Powell's 1977 film differed in at least two scenes from the Gospel's historical account: in the film, the Virgin Mary is shown without the Angel of the Annunciation, but Jesus is shown only in the vertical branch of the Holy Cross to Calvary.

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