A Cornishman, Robert trained as a journalist and teacher before entering LAMDA. Since that time he has played in theatres the length and breadth of the UK and beyond. His debut was at Manchester’s Royal Exchange and a Shakespearean season followed at Bolton’s Octagon theatre which saw him play Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Hotspur in Henry IV, Cloten in Cymbeline and Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at Southampton’s Nuffield theatre. Most recently has seen him as Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal husband with Kate O’Mara which had a nationwide tour last year as Inspector Lord in Bill Kenwright’s production of Agatha Christie’s Spiders Web and as Ronald in Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular also for Bill Kenwright. Some of his favourite roles have included Stanley Kowalski in  A Streetcar Named Desire; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Jean Paul Maret in Marat/Sade; Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre; Torvald Helmer in A Dolls House and Frank in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita. Recently Robert played two leading roles opposite Eric Sykes in Ray Cooney’s hilarious farce Caught in the Net on the London West End stage. He also starred as Tom Sargeant in Sir David Hare’s award winning play Skylight for Vienna English Theatre. More recently still, Norman in Ayckbourn’s Norman Conquests at the Theatre Royal in Windsor which had earlier seen him in Absurd Person Singular and Confusions for the same author at the same venue. No stranger to Windsor other work includes playing the lead in a new play Appetite directed by Guy Retallack. This led to Eastbourne’s Summer season playing Neville in Tim Firth’s Neville’s Island then later Frank in Memory of Water for Watford and  Hugh Walford in The Secretary Bird by Alex Douglas Home.

In television he has appeared in Maddie with Love; enemy at the Door; Boon; Squadron; The Bill; Eastenders; Good Guys; The upper Hand; A Different Drummer; New World and The Burston Rebellion. He will however, be best remembered as the jargon spouting chief executive Gus Hedges in Channel Four’s multi award winning comedy Drop The Dead Donkey. This led to appearances in the BBC’s Casualty playing the cuckolded husband of regular Baz; the role of Neil Hamilton in the satirical film Mr White Goes to Westminster as well as further appearances in Chambers; London’s Burning, Where the Heart Is and Absolute Power.

As a presenter, a series on the Celtic Saints made for Tyne Tees Television won a prestigious Royal Television Society Award and led to him presenting a programme recently completed on the Lindisfarne Gospels. He has also fronted a number of religious programmes most notably the BBC’s ever popular Songs of Praise. Interspersed has come number one tours playing leading roles in amongst other shows, Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard opposite Matthew Kelly; Alan Bleasdale’s Having A Ball; don’t dress For Dinner by Marc Camoletti; Outside Edge by Richard Harris and he starred opposite Joe Pasquale in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

No stranger to the radio, Robert is the voice of Scumspawn in Andy Hamilton’s hilarious satirical comedy set in Hell, Old Harry’s Game winner of best radio in the 1998 Comedy Awards and Gold medal winner in the coveted Sony awards in 2000. A new series has recently aired along with the new Douglas Adams serial Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective agency where he featured alongside Harry Enfield and Billy Boyd. In keeping with theatre traditionalism, Robert has appeared in numerous pantomimes for some of the country's top producers.