Robert Cavanah
Born
Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)Actor, director, writer, producer
Years active1993–present
Spousenone
Websitercavanah-fansite.com/index.html

Robert Alexander Cavanah, known professionally as Robert Cavanah (Born December 1965) is a Scottish stage and film actor, writer, director and producer.

Biography

Robert Cavanah was born in Edinburgh. He attended James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh followed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1986. However, he left after just one term but went on to graduate from a three-year acting course at Drama Centre London in 1994, part of the University of the Arts London.

He now lives in Kent.

Career

Filmmaking

Cavanah wrote, produced and directed the short films Soldier's Leap (1999), Fish (2001), and Trumps (2001).

He made his directorial feature film debut in Pimp (2010), which he wrote and in which he also starred.[1]

He established a film production company called R&R Films (later R&R Film) along with Royd Tolkien in 2010,[1] which was operational until c.2016.[lower-alpha 1]

He produced and directed the documentaries There's A Hole In My Bucket and The Big Hope.

Acting

Film and television

He played Adam Carnegie in the ITV1 drama series The Royal for three series and played Tommy Grant in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders. He starred in the 1998 ITV version of Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff. He played Ian in Emmerdale and guest starred on the second series of Outlander shot in 2015.[3]

He is currently the face and voice of an advert for Staysure Insurance.

His film acting credits include Soccer Mom, Birthday, Fall of the Essex Boys, AB Negative, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and Sahara.[3]

Starring roles include Cracker, Blue Dove, Cadfael, Hamish MacBeth, Kavanagh QC, Rose and Maloney, Rebus, Silent Witness, Highlander: The Raven, Casualty, DCI Banks, Waterloo Road, The Bill, The Governor, The Borgias, Shetland, Hatfields & McCoys and as Robert Stevenson in the BBC television drama-documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World which chronicled the design and construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.[3]

Theatre

He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in 2010/11 in the Ena Lamont Stewart play Men Should Weep in the role of John Morrison alongside Sharon Small. He played the title role in MacBeth at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, directed by David Thacker (February 2012).

In 2015–16, Cavanah played John Churchill in the RSC's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne and Scandal in the RSC production of Love for Love.[4]

In 2019 he appeared at the Park Theatre in the Meghan Kenedy play Napoli, Brooklyn in the role of Nic Muscolino.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1994 Being Human Raider
1996 The Cold Light of Day Policeman Caves
1997 The Informant Lt. Lauter
Saving Grace Derek Short film
1998 Hanuman Tom
1999 Billy and Zorba Black Short film
2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life MI6 Agent Stevens
2005 Sahara Captain Tombs
8mm 2 Richard Direct-to-video
2007 Hope Doctor Short film
2008 Tomorrow's Forecast TV Producer Short film
Soccer Mom Harry Davies
2009 Blue Big Fight Referee
Colour Blind John Short film
2010 Tontine Marcus Spence Short film
Village on the Roof Tam Short film
Pimp Woody
2011 Birthday Victor
2013 The Fall of the Essex Boys Mickey Steele
The Collector Narrator (voice)
2014 The London Firm Mr. Hyde
James Dr. Jenner Short film
2015 Assassin Tony Boyd
2016 Take Down Tom Maxwell
2019 Queen Marie of Romania Joe Boyle
2020 Blue: The American Dream Big Fight Referee
TBA A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow Phillip Maxwell Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1989–2010 Taggart Don McGreevy/Lennie Moffat/Tony 3 episodes
1994 Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laura Kellogg Ross Television film
1995 Doctor Finlay Max Henderson Episode: "The Greatness and the Power"
Highlander Franklin Waterman Episode: "Reasonable Doubt"
The Governor Frank Kelly 4 episodes
Cracker Temple 7 episodes
Cadfael Oliver de Bretagne Episode: "The Virgin in the Ice"
1995–2006 The Bill DCI Richard Caddick/Andrew Hallam/Neil Ramsey 4 episodes
1995–2017 Casualty Various 5 episodes
1996 Kavanagh QC Duncan Pembridge Episode: "Job Satisfaction"
Hamish Macbeth Gary Ross Episode: "Isobel Pulls It Off"
No Bananas George Foster Episode: "Blitz"
1997 Insiders Gerry Cosmo 6 episodes
Platinum Simon Tucker Television film
The Longest Memory Sanders Jr. Television film
1998 Wuthering Heights Heathcliff Television film
1999 Highlander: The Raven Father Liam Riley 5 episodes
2003 Murder in Mind DC Jon Parry Episode: "Landlord"
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World Robert Stevenson Episode: "The Bell Rock Lighthouse"
Charles II: The Power & the Passion John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester 2 episodes
Blue Dove Ian Andrews Television series
2003–2014 Silent Witness Colin Burwood/DI Simon Laing 4 episodes
2004 Rose and Maloney Bruce Arneson 2 episodes
Eastenders Tommy 14 episodes
2005 Judge John Deed Terry Rogers Episode: "Lost and Found"
2006 Rebus DI Dalcastle Episode: "The Black Book"
2006–2009 The Royal Adam Carnegie 35 episodes
2006–2015 Doctors Dr. Peter Kendrick/Michael Bennett 16 episodes
2012 Hustle Gerald McCrary Episode: "Picasso Finger Painting"
Hatfields & McCoys Kentucky Officer Episode: "Episode #1.3"
The Borgias Hernando De Caballos 2 episodes
2013 Father Brown Leonard Quinton Episode: "The Wrong Shape"
2014 DCI Banks Supt. Mike Trethowan 2 episodes
Emmerdale Ian 4 episodes
Transporter: The Series Rob Tyler Episode: "We Go Back"
Waterloo Road Jackson Whittaker Episode: "A Tangled Web"
2016–2017 Outlander Jared Fraser 2 episodes
2017 Ransom Rafael Blauch Episode: "Girl on a Train"
2019 Shetland Graeme Benson 3 episodes
The Mallorca Files Tony Rogan Episode: "Honour Amongst Thieves"
2020 The Crown Psychiatrist Episode: "Avalanche"
2021 Professor T James Samson Episode: "The Dutiful Child"
Red Election Temple Laird Episode: "Episode #1.5"
2022 The Undeclared War Campbell Scott Episode: "Episode 1.1"
Midsomer Murders Guy Burrows Episode: "The Blacktrees Prophecy"
TBA 8200 Morgan Franklin Filming

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Known as R & R Film in 2016, but after 2017 no website.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Cavanah, Robert (19 May 2010). "Interview: Robert Cavanah, actor". The Scotsman (Interview). Retrieved 21 April 2022. Cavanah says he and his fellow producer Royd Tolkien – the great grandson of JRR Tolkien – have now established R&R Films and already have another movie ready to shoot.
  2. ↑ "People". R & R Film. 2016. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Robert Cavanah at IMDb
  4. ↑ RSC official website Archived 2 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, rsc.org.uk; accessed 8 February 2016.


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