Rob Jarvis
Rob Jarvis is an actor, born 1965.
Twenty credits on this page, and a police rank on a good number of them. Rob Jarvis is an English character actor, born on the Wirral in 1965, and he is frequently cast as a scouser, which in British television usually means he is playing somebody with a job.
His longest-running part is Eddie in Hustle, the long-running BBC series about a team of con artists. Away from the credits listed here he is also known for Graham Shand in Luther, Russell Posner in Emmerdale, and Eddie Corrigan in the BBC Scotland series River City.
Read down the roles and a pattern appears that says more about him than any single title. DC Euan Johnson in Collateral. DC Phil Hillcroft in Showtrial. DCI Duggins in Disclaimer. Bert McMullen in The Suspect, Tom Martins in The Killing Kind, a Downing Street policeman in Transformers: The Last Knight, and a credit that reads only Press 1 in Anatomy of a Scandal. He is the actor a drama hires when a scene needs somebody to be believably employed: take the statement, ask the follow-up question, deliver the bad news and go.
That is a real skill and an unglamorous career, and it has kept him working from a sitcom credit in the early 1990s through to This City Is Ours in 2025.
Movies (4)
TV (16)
- Hustle (2004)
- Disclaimer (2024)
- Jonathan Creek (1997)
- The Brittas Empire (1991)
- Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
- Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)
- Save Me (2018)
- This City Is Ours (2025)
- Collateral (2018)
- Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003)
- Guerrilla (2017)
- Showtrial (2021)
- Lead Balloon (2006)
- Fixer (2008)
- The Suspect (2022)
- The Killing Kind (2023)
Where to start with Rob Jarvis
Hustle is the place to start, and not only because it is his biggest part. It is his warmest too, and he plays Eddie without ever angling for sympathy, which is what makes a recurring character stick across a long run.
From there, take the recent prestige run. Disclaimer and Collateral are serious, well-made series that use him the way British drama always does, as the police presence that makes a plot feel procedural rather than invented. Save Me is the best-written of that group by some way.
For the lighter end, Jonathan Creek and Toast show what he can do with a handful of lines, which is quite a lot. This City Is Ours in 2025 is the newest thing here, and on the evidence of the credit it is a named part rather than a rank.