Highest rated movie: The Italian Job (1969)
Lowest rated movie: What Waits Below (1984)
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Looking for reviews of Robert Powell movies? Cinafilm has a total of 657 reviews across 15 movies.
Movies starring Robert Powell have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 56%.
The Italian Job - released in 1969 - is Robert Powell's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 545 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Robert Powell is What Waits Below - released in 1984 - with a score of 34% based on 3 reviews.
Robert Powell was born on June 1, 1944 in Salford, Manchester, England.
In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester
University. In 1967, he made his film debut, and later landed his first starring role in The Italian Job (1969). Some of his well known movies include Franco Ziefirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977), Ken Russell's Tommy (1975) and Mahler (1974), the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), and the popular TV series "Doomwatch"
(1970). Robert married on 29th August, 1975 to Barbara 'Babs' Lord.
They now have a son and a daughter. In 1982, Robert won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Imperative (1982). He won the best actor award at the Paris Film Festival for Harlequin (1980). For his portrayal of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth he received best actor awards
from TV Times and Italian TV Times, the international arts prize at the
Fiuggi Film Festival, grand prize at the Saint-Vincent Film Festival,
and a nomination as best actor from The Irish Academy of Film and
Television arts. In reference to his role as Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth,
Robert said, "I hope Jesus Christ will be the last in my line of
sensitive young men for quite a while.
Robert Powell has acted in films with David Kelly, Michael Caine, Oliver Reed and Raf Vallone.
Robert Powell has worked with these film directors: Ken Russell, Simon Wincer, David Hemmings and Terence Young.
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