# Robert Cavanah

Robert Alexander 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.
He established a film production company called R&R Films (later R&R Film) along with Royd Tolkien in 2010, which was operational until c.2016.
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.
He is currently the face and voice of an advert for Staysure Insurance.
His film acting credits include Soccer Mom, Birthday, The Fall of the Essex Boys, AB Negative, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and Sahara.
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.

#### 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.
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 | |
| 1997 | 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 | |
| 2005 | 8mm 2 | Richard | Direct-to-video |
| 2007 | Hope | Doctor | Short film |
| 2008 | Tomorrow's Forecast | TV Producer | Short film |
| 2008 | Soccer Mom | Harry Davies | |
| 2009 | Blue | Big Fight Referee | |
| 2009 | Colour Blind | John | Short film |
| 2010 | Tontine | Marcus Spence | Short film |
| 2010 | Village on the Roof | Tam | Short film |
| 2010 | Pimp | Woody | |
| 2011 | Birthday | Victor | |
| 2013 | The Fall of the Essex Boys | Mickey Steele | |
| 2013 | The Collector | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2014 | The London Firm | Mr. Hyde | |
| 2014 | 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" |
| 1995 | Highlander | Franklin Waterman | Episode: "Reasonable Doubt" |
| 1995 | The Governor | Frank Kelly | 4 episodes |
| 1995 | Cracker | Temple | 7 episodes |
| 1995 | 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" |
| 1996 | Hamish Macbeth | Gary Ross | Episode: "Isobel Pulls It Off" |
| 1996 | No Bananas | George Foster | Episode: "Blitz" |
| 1997 | Insiders | Gerry Cosmo | 6 episodes |
| 1997 | Platinum | Simon Tucker | Television film |
| 1997 | 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" |
| 2003 | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World | Robert Stevenson | Episode: "The Bell Rock Lighthouse" |
| 2003 | Charles II: The Power & the Passion | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | 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 |
| 2004 | 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" |
| 2012 | Hatfields & McCoys | Kentucky Officer | Episode: "Episode #1.3" |
| 2012 | The Borgias | Hernando De Caballos | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Father Brown | Leonard Quinton | Episode: "The Wrong Shape" |
| 2014 | DCI Banks | Supt. Mike Trethowan | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Emmerdale | Ian | 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Transporter: The Series | Rob Tyler | Episode: "We Go Back" |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2019 | The Mallorca Files | Tony Rogan | Episode: "Honour Amongst Thieves" |
| 2020 | The Crown | Psychiatrist | Episode: "Avalanche" |
| 2021 | Professor T | James Samson | Episode: "The Dutiful Child" |
| 2021 | Red Election | Temple Laird | Episode: "Episode #1.5" |
| 2022 | The Undeclared War | Campbell Scott | Episode: "Episode 1.1" |
| 2022 | Midsomer Murders | Guy Burrows | Episode: "The Blacktrees Prophecy" |
| TBA | 8200 | Morgan Franklin | Filming |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Known as R & R Film in 2016, but after 2017 no website.