Robert Lang

Known for Acting

9/24/1934

Bristol, England, UK

Biography

Robert Lang was a British an actor of stage and screen, best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and the 1977-1978 BBC TV series 1990. He was married to the actress Ann Bell.

Known For (89 credits)

6.7

Movie

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

2005

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

7.9

The Forsyte Saga

2002

Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.

5.5

Movie

Room to Rent

2001

Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.

4.6

Movie

Trust

2000

When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life.

8.0

Nancherrow

1999

When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will eventually take over from her.

6.0

Movie

Nancherrow

1999

The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.

4.0

Mosley

1998

Sir Oswald Mosley was a man who should have ranked with the heroes of the century... Instead his personal life and public career ended in disgrace and Mosley is now remembered as the leader of a dictatorial populist movement in the decade before WWII.

The Jasper Carrott Trial

1997

Jasper Carrott defends his record as a comedian in front of an audience jury in this highlights series

6.6

Movie

Wilde

1997

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

7.5

Midsomer Murders

1997

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.

6.7

Movie

Some Mother's Son

1996

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

6.5

Movie

Rasputin

1996

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.