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Michael Robbins‌

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Male

Birthday

calendar1930-11-14

Popularity

star3.7

Michael Robbins

London, England, UK

Michael Robbins

London, England, UK

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1930-11-14

Popularity

star3.7

Biography

Born in London, Robbins was a bank clerk who became an actor after appearing in amateur dramatic performances in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where he and his family lived at the time. Robbins made his television debut as the cockney soldier in Roll-on Bloomin' Death. Primarily a comedy actor, he is best remembered for the role of Arthur Rudge, the persistently sarcastic husband of Olive (Anna Karen), in the popular sitcom On the Buses (1969–73). Robbins and Karen provided the secondary comic storyline to Reg Varney's comedy capers at the bus depot. Robbins also appeared in the series film spin-offs, On the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses, and Holiday on the Buses. His other comedy credits include non-recurring roles in Man About the House, Oh Brother!, The Good Life, One Foot in the Grave, The New Statesman, George and Mildred, Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord? He appeared as a rather humorously portrayed police sergeant in the TV adaptation of Brendon Chase. As well as these comic roles, he assumed various straight roles in some of the major British television shows of the 1960s and 1970s: including Minder, The Sweeney, Z-Cars, Return of the Saint, Murder Most English, The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green, The Bill and the 1982 Doctor Who story The Visitation. Robbins's film credits included The Whisperers, Up The Junction, The Looking Glass War, Zeppelin and Blake Edwards' films The Pink Panther Strikes Again and Victor/Victoria'. He also had an extensive career as a radio actor, including a role in the soap opera Waggoner's Walk and the satirical 1970s show Life is What Yer Make It. Robbins was an indefatigable worker for charity. He was active in the Grand Order of Water Rats (being elected 'Rat of the Year' in 1978) and the Catholic Stage Guild, and received a Papal Award for his services in 1987. In one of his last television appearances, in A Little Bit of Heaven Robbins recalled his childhood visits to Norfolk and spoke of his faith and love of the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. Michael Robbins had a brother Jack who was a head teacher at Saint Gregory's Catholic middle school in Bedford in the 1970s and early 1980s. Michael made some guest appearances at this school throughout the years and sometimes entertained the pupils with various sketches with his brother Jack Robbins In the mid-1970s he also directed a film: How Are You?

Movie Credits

You in Your Small Corner

You in Your Small Corner‌
star0.0
calendar 1962

Mutiny on the Buses

Mutiny on the Buses‌
star7.5
calendar 1972

The Bone Yard

The Bone Yard‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part‌
star7.2
calendar 1969

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

The Hunting of Lionel Crane‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

The Drummer and the Bloke

The Drummer and the Bloke‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

On the Buses

On the Buses‌
star6.3
calendar 1971

Holiday on the Buses

Holiday on the Buses‌
star7.7
calendar 1973

Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria‌
star7.3
calendar 1982

The Bargee

The Bargee‌
star6.8
calendar 1964

Dead Man's Chest

Dead Man's Chest‌
star5.7
calendar 1965

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Crossplot

Crossplot‌
star5.5
calendar 1969

Children of the Damned

Children of the Damned‌
star6.1
calendar 1964

Adam Bede

Adam Bede‌
star7.3
calendar 1992

The Saint and the Brave Goose

The Saint and the Brave Goose‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

A Prize of Arms

A Prize of Arms‌
star6.6
calendar 1962

Horizontal Hold

Horizontal Hold‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

Danger! Men Working

Danger! Men Working‌
star0.0
calendar 1961

Lunch Hour

Lunch Hour‌
star6.8
calendar 1962

Soap Opera in Stockwell

Soap Opera in Stockwell‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

No Sex Please: We're British

No Sex Please: We're British‌
star5.1
calendar 1973

Villain

Villain‌
star6.2
calendar 1971

The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War‌
star5.5
calendar 1970

Man About the House

Man About the House‌
star5.1
calendar 1974

Just Ask for Diamond

Just Ask for Diamond‌
star4.3
calendar 1988

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again‌
star6.8
calendar 1976

The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper‌
star6.8
calendar 1981

The Whisperers

The Whisperers‌
star6.4
calendar 1967

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor‌
star8.0
calendar 1982

Lost In London

Lost In London‌
star0.0
calendar 1985

Rattle of a Simple Man

Rattle of a Simple Man‌
star4.8
calendar 1964

All the Way Up

All the Way Up‌
star6.0
calendar 1970

What a Crazy World

What a Crazy World‌
star6.2
calendar 1963

Up the Junction

Up the Junction‌
star6.0
calendar 1968

Doctor Who: The Visitation

Doctor Who: The Visitation‌
star7.0
calendar 1982

Murder Rap

Murder Rap‌
star0.0
calendar 1980

That's Your Funeral

That's Your Funeral‌
star1.5
calendar 1972

Zeppelin

Zeppelin‌
star6.3
calendar 1971

Tv Credits

Adam Adamant Lives!

Adam Adamant Lives!‌
star7.5
calendar 1966

On the Buses

On the Buses‌
star7.3
calendar 1969

Department S

Department S‌
star4.9
calendar 1969

The Bill

The Bill‌
star6.6
calendar 1984

Doctor Who

Doctor Who‌
star7.9
calendar 1963

Z-Cars

Z-Cars‌
star7.0
calendar 1962

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way‌
star6.8
calendar 1965

Dempsey and Makepeace

Dempsey and Makepeace‌
star6.4
calendar 1985

George and Mildred

George and Mildred‌
star6.8
calendar 1976

The Sweeney

The Sweeney‌
star7.7
calendar 1975

The Avengers

The Avengers‌
star7.7
calendar 1961

The Good Life

The Good Life‌
star7.6
calendar 1975

The Chinese Detective

The Chinese Detective‌
star7.2
calendar 1981

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey‌
star7.1
calendar 1975

The Saint

The Saint‌
star7.3
calendar 1962

Callan

Callan‌
star7.0
calendar 1967

One Foot In the Grave

One Foot In the Grave‌
star7.5
calendar 1990

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields‌
star6.7
calendar 1984

Redcap

Redcap‌
star6.0
calendar 1964

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place‌
star3.7
calendar 1959

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width‌
star3.5
calendar 1967

Black and Blue

Black and Blue‌
star6.0
calendar 1973

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare‌
star5.2
calendar 1978

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes‌
star6.4
calendar 1964

How's Your Father

How's Your Father‌
star7.0
calendar 1979

Judge Dee

Judge Dee‌
star5.0
calendar 1969

Mixed Blessings

Mixed Blessings‌
star6.3
calendar 1978

Thick As Thieves

Thick As Thieves‌
star6.7
calendar 1974

Studio Four

Studio Four‌
star6.0
calendar 1962

You Can't Win

You Can't Win‌
star0.0
calendar 1966

Murder Most English

Murder Most English‌
star5.5
calendar 1977

Minder

Minder‌
star6.8
calendar 1979

Fairly Secret Army

Fairly Secret Army‌
star6.0
calendar 1984

The Cannon & Ball Show

The Cannon & Ball Show‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

Justice

Justice‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin‌
star7.3
calendar 1979

The Bounder

The Bounder‌
star6.3
calendar 1982

The Main Chance

The Main Chance‌
star7.7
calendar 1969

Return of the Saint

Return of the Saint‌
star7.0
calendar 1978

The New Statesman

The New Statesman‌
star7.5
calendar 1987

The Man In Room 17

The Man In Room 17‌
star5.5
calendar 1965

The Saint

The Saint‌
star7.3
calendar 1962

Legacy of Murder

Legacy of Murder‌
star0.0
calendar 1982

The Avengers

The Avengers‌
star7.7
calendar 1961

Brendon Chase

Brendon Chase‌
star5.5
calendar 1982

You Rang, M'Lord?

You Rang, M'Lord?‌
star7.4
calendar 1990