Troilus and Cressida playing Achilles; and in Much Ado About Nothing playing Don Pedro. His last West End theatre performance was with Zoë Wanamaker in Sylvia by A.R. Gurney at the Apollo Theatre in 1996. He is a well-known voiceover artist, and co-owned a voiceover agency called Voices in London for many years. He has narrated documentaries, including Fall of the Wall, The Second Russian Revolution, The Death of Yugoslavia and End of Empire. He is the author of a memoir entitled Making Poldark about the series (originally published by Bossiney Books, ). Making Poldark was expanded and revised in 2012, and republished by Palo Alto Publishing (). An audio version of his memoir was released on Audible in June 2015. He had a recurring role in the BBC/Mammoth adaptation of Poldark as Reverend Halse. In 2021, he played the Ghost in an online production of Hamlet, produced by the Gorilla Repertory Theater in New York, which was scheduled for completion in autumn 2021. Cookbook writer His first cookbook, Delicious Dishes for Diabetics: A Mediterranean Way of Eating, was published in 2011. The US edition was titled Delicious Dishes for Diabetics: Eating Well with Type 2 Diabetes. His second cookbook, Healthy Eating for Life, came out in 2014. His third cookbook, Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics: Delicious Dishes to Control or Avoid Diabetes was published in 2016 by Little, Brown UK. His fourth cookbook, Robin Ellis's Mediterranean Vegetarian Cooking was published in June 2020 by Little, Brown UK. Personal life Ellis lives with his wife Meredith in southwest France. His younger brothers are the actor Jack Ellis and the director Peter Ellis, who died in 2006. References External links Robin Ellis' Blog Robin Ellis Interview at Best British TV Robin Ellis interview at Classic Film & TV Cafe 1942 births Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge British cookbook writers Living people English male stage actors English male television actors People educated at Highgate School 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English expatriates in France Vegetarian cookbook writers