Personal Info
Birth date
1945-03-18 (80 Years)
Day of death
2006-04-17
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New Forest, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known as
Robert Swan
Robert Swann
Biography
Robert Swann (18 March 1945 – 17 April 2006) was a British actor with a film career spanning thirty five years. He is best known to American audiences through his portrayal of a Church of England vicar in the television series The Witches and the Grinnygog. An early film role was the sadistic house prefect of Malcolm McDowell in the 1968 film if..... His last credited acting role was in the series Wire in the Blood in 2004. He died two years later in 2006. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Upstairs, Downstairs
7.6
Overview:
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.The Professionals
7.43
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.UFO
7.6
Overview:
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.Van der Valk
5.8
Overview:
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Shine on Harvey Moon
7.583
Overview:
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.Justice
6
Overview:
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.The Sweeney
7.739
Overview:
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Bust
5.5
Overview:
Unsuccessful businessman, Neil Walsh, tries to rebuild his life after being made bankrupt.Anna Karenina
5.8
Overview:
Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.The Witches and the Grinnygog
9
Overview:
When a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live.Shackleton
7.1
Overview:
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.if....
7.1
Overview:
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.The Madness of King George
6.776
Overview:
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.Sense and Sensibility
6.9
Overview:
A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.North Sea Hijack
6.243
Overview:
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.Emil and the Detectives
6.1
Overview:
When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his family, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, a young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. However, they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.The Creeping Flesh
5.8
Overview:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil, he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
6.5
Overview:
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.Hamlet
6.1
Overview:
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
6.077
Overview:
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.A Business Affair
4.794
Overview:
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.Queen's Messenger
4
Overview:
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his lifeActing
2002Shackleton (1 Episode) as Freshfield
2001Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Det Supt Les Bolland
2001Queen's Messenger as Major Farrow
1998The Cater Street Hangman as Superintendent Drummond
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Gerald Hadleigh
1994The Madness of King George as 1st MP
1994A Business Affair as Maitre d'
1992Heartbeat (1, 1 Episode) as Superintendent, Ken Rogers
1989Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery as Greg Dyson
1987Bust (1 Episode) as Barry Allen
1987Watching (1 Episode) as Head Waiter
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Col. Eric Dutton
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as James Barnham-Smythe
1984Charlie as 1st Barrister
1983The Witches and the Grinnygog as Reverend Anthony Sogood
1983The Witches and the Grinnygog (6 Episodes) as Reverend Anthony Sogood
1982Shine on Harvey Moon (1 Episode) as Mr. Horton
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as CS Marston
1981Sense and Sensibility (7 Episodes) as Colonel Brandon
1980Hamlet as Horatio
1980North Sea Hijack as Miller
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Jeremy Burnham-Jones
1977The Professionals (1, 1 Episode) as Major Danby, Logan-Blake
1977Anna Karenina (10 Episodes) as Levin
1975The Sweeney (1 Episode) as Det. Sgt. David Keel
1973The Creeping Flesh as Young Aristocrat
1972Van der Valk (1 Episode) as Paul
1971Upstairs, Downstairs (1 Episode) as Medical Officer
1971Justice (1 Episode) as Michael Squires
1970The Breaking of Bumbo as Machaffie
1970UFO (1 Episode) as William Grant
1970Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly as Soldier
1968if.... as Rowntree
1964Emil and the Detectives as Hermann