The character actor Robert Urquhart was born in 1921 in Ullapool, Scotland. His stage debut came in 1947 and his film debut 5 years later. He worked steadily until the late 1980s in both film and television, usually playing the stalwart, dependable type. He became particularly well known on television as a regular in a number of British series, including The Pathfinders (1972) and The Aweful Mr. Goodall (1974). His one film, made in the 1990s, Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Master of the Moor: Part 1 (1994), was his last before his death in 1995.