Robert Pugh
Robert Pugh (born 11 October 1950) is a Welsh actor, known for his many television appearances, including the role of Craster in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Life and career
Pugh was born in the Tynte, Mountain Ash early schooling at Ynysboeth school down the road and grew up in Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd. He decided to become an actor after watching From Russia with Love at a cinema in Treforest with a cousin. A few years later he took night courses at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in North London, before being accepted at Rose Bruford College, where he graduated in 1976.He appeared as Sapper Powell in the 1979 production of Danger UXB , The great Blitz has taken London by surprise. A young Royal Engineer who finds himself posted to a Bomb Disposal Company to combat the hundreds of unexploded bombs in London and he later appeared as Harold Wilson in the 2005 Channel 4 drama Longford and as Hermann Göring in the 2006 BBC drama-documentary Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial. In 2007, he co-starred alongside Genevieve O'Reilly and Geraldine James in the ITV1 drama The Time of Your Life, in which he played a father whose 36-year-old daughter is recovering after an 18-year coma. In his early career, he frequently appeared in Welsh language productions, for example as Edgar Evans in the 1984 TV film Terra Nova, and as a soldier in Karl Francis's Milwr Bychan (1987). Even in more recent years, he has often portrayed Welsh characters, such as Owain Glyndwr in the 2012 BBC adaptation of Henry IV, Part I.In 2010, Pugh appeared as Tony in the two-part Doctor Who story comprising the episodes "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood". He had a supporting role in 2008 in an episode of Torchwood, another BBC Wales production.
In 2011 Pugh became Judge Patrick Coburn in Justice. The following year he joined HBO's Game of Thrones in the recurring role of Craster.  In 2013 he portrayed Baron Rivers in The White Queen. Pugh played Jack Reynolds in Doctor Foster, and in 2016 joined the cast of Mr Selfridge as Lord Wynstay, another Welsh character.

Filmography
Film
1980 SOS Titanic UK/US Made for TV movie as James Farrell
1981 Inseminoid as Roy
1981 Nighthawks as Kenna
1982 Britannia Hospital as Picket
1982 Giro City as John Williams
1984 Milwr Bychan as RSM
1989 The Angry Earth as Emlyn
1991 Old Scores as Bleddyn Morgan
1993 Tender Loving Care as Keith Dobbs
1994 Priest as Mr. Unsworth
1995 The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain as Williams the Petroleum
1995 The Near Room as Eddie Harte
1996 Different for Girls as DS Cole
1998 The Tichbourne Claimant as The Claimant
2000 The Testimony of Taliesin Jones as Handycott
2001 Enigma as Skynner
2001 Happy Now? as Hank Thomas
2002 The Intended as Le Blanc
2002 Undertaking Betty as Hugh Rhys-Jones
2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as John Allen
2005 Kinky Boots as Harold Price
2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Godfrey's Elder Brother (director's cut)
2007 The Last Legion as Kustennin
2008 Goodnight Irene as Alex
2010 The Ghost Writer as Richard Rycart
2010 Robin Hood as Baron Baldwin
2010 West Is West as Mr Jordan
2012 Hunky Dory as Headmaster
2012 Love Bite as Sergent Rooney
2012 Metamorphosis as Mr. Samsa
2013 The Thirteenth Tale as John the Dig
2018 Colette as Jules
2019 Eternal Beauty (2019) as Dennis

Television
2023 - Casualty as Gethin West

Audio
2017 - Tracks as Sam

References
External links
Robert Pugh at IMDb