Robert Daws was born on 4 May 1959 and is an English actor, and crime fiction author.
21 Facts About Robert Daws
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Robert Daws is best known for his television roles, including Tuppy Glossop in Jeeves and Wooster, gruff cricketer Roger Dervish in the comedy Outside Edge, mini-cab firm owner Sam in the sitcom Roger Roger, and East Yorkshire GP Dr Gordon Ormerod in the period medical drama The Royal.
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Robert Daws played Tuppy Glossop in the early 1990s ITV version of Jeeves and Wooster.
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Robert Daws has appeared in a number of one-off dramas including the 1997 BBC drama, The Missing Postman, Sword of Honour, Take a Girl Like You, Mystery of Men and in 1996 he starred in a pilot of what would become the long-running series Roger Roger, a comedy-drama which ran until 2003.
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Robert Daws starred as Sam Mountjoy, the co-owner of Cresta Cabs.
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Robert Daws appeared as Ernie Rayner in the three-part prequel to Only Fools and Horses, Rock and Chips.
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Robert Daws played Mike Spicer in Midsomer Murders "Hidden Depths", and Hamish Rafferty in "The Curse of the Ninth".
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Robert Daws plays the trumpet, as evidenced when in 1994 he appeared as a guest in the final episode of the BBC comedy series A Bit of Fry and Laurie and played over the credits, accompanied by Hugh Laurie on the piano.
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Robert Daws appeared as Dr Gordon Ormerod in the long-running ITV drama series The Royal, the last scenes of which showed Ormerod fighting for his life after an attack at the hospital.
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Robert Daws played a recurring role in Robin of Sherwood as King John's herald, Hubert de Guiscarde in the episodes "The Greatest Enemy" and "The Sheriff of Nottingham".
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From July 2010 to 11 September 2010, Robert Daws appeared as Dr Watson in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes at the Duchess Theatre.
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Robert Daws appeared as Jim Hacker in the West End production of Yes, Prime Minister and the national tour of Blackbird by David Harrower, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in the Manchester Evening News Drama Awards.
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Robert Daws appeared in the first Classic Comedy Company productions of Ten Times Table and How the Other Half Loves, by Alan Aykbourn.
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Robert Daws appeared as Charles Pooter in a new adaptation of Diary of a Nobody and as John Carlisle, in an episode of New Tricks which was first shown on BBC1 on 29 August 2011.
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Robert Daws played Gavin Dibbs the husband of the new GP in Port Wenn in an episode of Doc Martin first shown on ITV on 12 September 2011.
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Robert Daws portrayed Arthur Lowe on BBC Radio 4, in Dear Arthur, Love John and Ronnie Barker in Goodnight from Him and John Betjeman in New Fame.
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Robert Daws co-created the BBC Radio detective series Trueman and Riley and played Trueman in all three series.
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Robert Daws starred as Professor James Cheeseman in the horror movie The Unfolding.
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Robert Daws appeared in Agatha Raisin "Love from Hell" as Ted Huxley.
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Robert Daws starred as Peter Weiss in the 2023 film The Piper.
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Robert Daws worked with best-selling mystery writer Adam Croft on a radio-play adaptation of Croft's 2011 book, Exit Stage Left, which was released in 2012 with Robert Daws playing the lead character Kempston Hardwick.