Hugh Ross (actor)

Hugh Ross (born 28 April 1945) is a Scottish actor, with a wide variety of British TV, film and theatre credits. He is known for his supporting roles in the films Trainspotting and Bronson; and for his performances as Major Mungo Munro in the Sharpe, and as Narcisse in Clive Barker’s Nightbreed.

Hugh Ross
Born	(1945-04-28) 28 April 1945 (age 79) Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Actor
Partner	David Harkins
Website	hugh-ross.com

Biography

Career

Ross was born in Glasgow, where his parents were both doctors. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy, an independent school, followed by the University of St Andrews. He then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Ross began his career in repertory all over England. He played Romeo (1971) at the Open-air Theatre in Regent’s Park; Jaques in As You Like It (1990) for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Dr Brooks in Lady in the Dark (1997) at the National Theatre. In 1997, he was nominated for an Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his performance in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End. His performance as Malvolio in Cheek by Jowl’s Twelfth Night (1987) won the Time Out Performer Award.^[1] In 2010, he played Polonius in Hamlet at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, with John Simm;^[2] and in 2013, Duncan in Macbeth with James McAvoy at the Trafalgar Studios in London.

In September 2016, his production company, The Other Cheek, in association with Cahoots Theatre Company, presented a revival of J. B. Priestley's The Roundabout at the Park Theatre, London, to great acclaim.^[3][4][5] Hugh is currently directing the West End production of The Mousetrap at the St. Martin's Theatre.

Hugh is a member of the Associate committee of RADA. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art^[6]

TV and filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Dr. Finlay's Casebook	Youth	Episode: "The Call"
1972	Doomwatch	Ian	Episode: "Say Knife, Fat Man"
1972	Kate	Mike Stewart	4 episodes: "A Very Long Spoon", "A Step in the Right Direction", "The Woman Behind the Man", "Back to Square One"
1973	Crown Court	P.C. Walker	3 episodes: "The Age of Leo Trotsky: Part 1", "The Age of Leo Trotsky: Part 2", "The Age of Leo Trotsky: Part 3"
1973	Six Days of Justice	Mr. Simmonds	Episode: "The Complaint"
1975	General Hospital	Jonathan Armstrong	4 episodes
1975	Play of the Month:Love's Labours Lost[7]	A Forester	"Love's Labour's Lost"
1976	Warship	Sg. Lt. Gladman	Episode: "The Buccaneer"
1977	Anna Karenina	Sludin	4 episodes
1978	Killer's Moon	Government Minister
1978	Tycoon	Tommy Meadowes	9 episodes
1980	Screenplay – Lives of Our Own	Dr. Porteous
1982	The Stanley Baxter Hour
1983	Jury	Defence Counsel	13 episodes in total
1985	The Pickwick Papers	Jackson	3 episodes
1985	Dempsey and Makepeace	Van Gelder	Episode: "Set a Thief"
1986	Dramarama	Trimmer	1 episode
1988	Codename: Kyril	Detective Fitzgerald
1988	God’s Frontiersmen	King James I
1988	Playing for Real	Minister
1989	Screen Two	Duffy	1 episode: "Leaving"
1989	Screen One	Doctor	1 episode: "She’s Been Away"
1989	Boon	Patterson
1989	4Play- Family	McWhirter
1990	Taggart	Richard Smiley	Episode: "Love Knot"
1990	Nightbreed	Narcisse
1990	This Is David Harper – Born Again Yesterday	Apostle Crompton
1991	Kinsey	Potter
1991	Misterioso
1991	Advocates I	Archie Hoseason
1992	Patriot Games	Barrister Atkinson
1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	Maj. Garry Noott
1992	Warburg: A Man of Influence	Lord Halifax
1993	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Stephen Carter	Episode: "The Yellow Iris"
1993	Lovejoy	Adrian Stoneleigh-Stibbs	Episode: "Poetic Licence"
1993	Between the Lines	Cmdr. Graham Sullivan	11 episodes
1994	Absolutely Fabulous	Judge	2 episodes
1995	Doctor Finlay	George Renfrew	1 episode: A Natural Mistake
1995	Sharpe’s Gold	Major Mungo Munro
1995	Sharpe’s Battle	Major Mungo Munro
1995	Sharpe’s Sword	Major Mungo Munro
1996	Trainspotting	Interviewer
1998	Invasion: Earth	Dr. Vickers
2001	The Mists of Avalon	Bishop Patricius
2001	The Cazalets	Dr. Bailey
2001	Rebus	Dr. Joseph Margolies	Episode: "Dead Souls"
2001	Murder Rooms	Doyle Senior
2001	Charlotte Gray	Psychiatrist
2002	Snoddy	Chief Inspector Chalmers
2002	Shackleton	Marsh
2002	Monarch of the Glen	Greg MacDonald
2002	The Four Feathers	Regimental Priest
2002	Before You Go	Mr Berry
2002	Post	Boss
2003	Taggart	William Moyles	Episode: "New Life"
2004	Sea of Souls	Dean Claremont	6 episodes
2004	Mine All Mine	Mr. Coltrane	3 episodes
2005	Egypt	Sylvestre de Sacy	1 episode: The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
2006	Pinochet in Suburbia	Magistrate
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Andrew Caulfield	Episode: "Guardian Angel"
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Senator Piso	Episode: "Nero"
2007	Legit	Locatelli
2007	Rendition	Solicitor
2007	Hannibal Rising	Professor Dumas
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Narrator
2008	The Palace	Jeremy Robinson	8 episodes
2009	Midsomer Murders	Ed Monkberry	Episode: "The Dogleg Murders"
2009	Dorian Gray	Confessor
2009	Bronson	Uncle Jack
2010	Foyle’s War	Richard Carstairs KC	Episode: "The Hide"
2010	First Night	Bunny
2010	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lord Justice Carmichael	Episode: "The Blue Geranium"
2010	Silk	Victor Cornish
2011	Psychoville	Vicar
2011	Rab C. Nesbitt	Ramsey
2011	Jabberwock	Reginald
2011	Midsomer Murders	Bishop Graves	Episode: "A Sacred Trust"
2011	The Iron Lady	Christopher Soames
2012	Dark Matters: Twisted But True	Sir Arthur Woodward / Benjamin Franklin
2014	Waterloo Road	Mr. Carmichael	Episode: "One Good Turn"
2015	Sunset Song	Inspector
2015	The Team	William MacLean
2015	The Age of Adaline	Narrator
2018	Married to a Paedophile	Robert
2020	Outlander (TV series)	Arch Bug
2020	The Sands of Time	Bartender

References

1. Cheek By Jowl Awards
2. The Daily Telegraph review
3. The Guardian review of "The Roundabout"
4. The Spectator review of "The Roundabout"
5. The Stage review of "The Roundabout"
6. RADA Governance and Advisors page on the official RADA website
7. BBC Radio Times

External links

• Official Site: Hugh Ross
• Hugh Ross at IMDb
• Interview with Hugh Ross
• Interview with Hugh Ross on his role in Counter-Measures
• Catalogue of Hugh Ross' work with Big Finish
• The Daily Telegraph review of Plague over England 2009
• Production details of Twelfth Night 2014
• The Guardian review of Twelfth Night 2014