Robert Lindsay (actor) Rich" (1990) alongside Molly Ringwald and John Gielgud. He continued, however, to enjoy success on television, and played the leading role in Alan Bleasdale's dark comedy serial "G.B.H." (1991), for his performance in which he won a BAFTA. Lindsay was also in Bleasdale's "Jake's Progress" (1995) the tale of a couple played by Lindsay and Julie Walters who were struggling to cope with a 'difficult' child (Barclay Wright). Both Bleasdale serials were screened by Channel 4, as was the surreal Channel 4 sitcom "Nightingales" (1990–93), which also featured David Threlfall and James Ellis. In 1996, Lindsay played the title role
Robert Lindsay (Australian politician) Robert Lindsay (Australian politician) Robert William Ludovic Lindsay (18 August 1905 – 6 September 2000) was an English-born Australian politician. From Norwich, England, was educated at Eton College and then Royal Military College, Sandhurst. An officer of the British Grenadier Guards, who fluently spoke Arabic, stationed throughout Persia from 1925–37 with the Transjordan Frontier Force, regimented approximately 2000 enlisted Nepalese Gurkha Troops. In 1939–52, amongst other duties, Lindsay was part of Whitehall Defences, during end of the 2nd World War. In 1954, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives. As the Liberal member for the Flinders, defeating Labor's Keith