Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who worked on the stage, for British television, and in film.

[3] This led to a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1948, performing Hamlet, King John, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus and Cressida, and The Winter’s Tale.

[3] In 1950, he made his West End debut with the role of Captain Hugh Ardale in The Second Mrs Tanqueray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

[9][3] He then secured a contract with Associated British Picture Corporation, making films such as Knights of the Round Table (1953), Happy Ever After (1954), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Yangtse Incident (1957), The Bulldog Breed (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Mosquito Squadron (1969), and The Looking Glass War (1970).

[3] Late in his career, he had various roles in films, including Restless Natives (1985), Man on the Screen (1987), The Long Roads (1993), and Master of the Moor (1994).

[1][4] In the 1960s, Urquhart appeared in many television shows of the detective/special-agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Saint, and The Avengers.

[6] He also played the lead role and served as script editor in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion.

[3] The next year, he played Tom Stockman in Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People and the series The Old Men at the Zoo.

[3] In 1970, he turned the boat shed attached to his childhood home in Ullapool into a coffee shop called Ceilidh Place.