Michael Robbins
Birthday
1930/11/14
Day of death
1992/12/11 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also know as
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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 storyli...Read more
Acting
(1962) You in Your Small Corner
as Georgie
(1972) Mutiny on the Buses
as Arthur his brother in law
(1964) The Bone Yard
as Sergeant Strickland
(1969) Till Death Us Do Part
as Fred
(1970) The Hunting of Lionel Crane
as Sergeant Billings
(1968) The Drummer and the Bloke
as Jack
(1971) On the Buses
as Arthur Rudge - Stan's Brother-in-Law
(1973) Holiday on the Buses
as Arthur Rudge
(1982) Victor/Victoria
as Manager of Victoria's Hotel
(1964) The Bargee
as Bargee
(1965) Dead Man's Chest
as Sergeant Harris
(1964) The Count of Monte Cristo
as Gaspard Caderousse
(1969) Crossplot
as Garage Attendant
(1964) Children of the Damned
as ---
(1992) Adam Bede
as Thias Bede
(1979) The Saint and the Brave Goose
as Beeky
(1962) A Prize of Arms
as Orford
(1968) Horizontal Hold
as TV Repairman
(1961) Danger! Men Working
as Second Labourer
(1962) Lunch Hour
as Harris
(1973) Soap Opera in Stockwell
as Bert
(1973) No Sex Please: We're British
as Car Driver
(1971) Villain
as Barzun
(1970) The Looking Glass War
as Truck Driver
(1974) Man About the House
as Doorman
(1988) Just Ask for Diamond
as The Fat Man
(1976) The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Jarvis
(1981) The Great Muppet Caper
as Henderson
(1967) The Whisperers
as Mr Noonan
(1982) The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Nym
(1985) Lost In London
as Bill
(1964) Rattle of a Simple Man
as George (organiser)
(1970) All the Way Up
as Taxi Driver
(1963) What a Crazy World
as Percy
(1968) Up the Junction
as Figgins
(1982) Doctor Who: The Visitation
as Richard Mace
(1980) Murder Rap
as Det. Sgt. Praed
(1972) That's Your Funeral
as 2nd Funeral Director
(1971) Zeppelin
as Cockney Sergeant
(1966) Adam Adamant Lives!
as ---
(1969) On the Buses
as ---
(1969) Department S
as Burton
(1984) The Bill
as ---
(1963) Doctor Who
as Richard Mace
(1962) Z-Cars
as ---
(1965) Gideon's Way
as Smith
(1985) Dempsey and Makepeace
as Simmons
(1976) George and Mildred
as ---
(1975) The Sweeney
as Kevin Lee
(1961) The Avengers
as Henry Farrow
(1975) The Good Life
as Mr. Bulstrode
(1981) The Chinese Detective
as ---
(1975) Rumpole of the Bailey
as ---
(1962) The Saint
as Harry
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1990) One Foot In the Grave
as ---
(1984) Fresh Fields
as Mr. Pringle
(1964) Redcap
as ---
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1967) Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
as ---
(1973) Black and Blue
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(1964) Sherlock Holmes
as ---
(1979) How's Your Father
as ---
(1969) Judge Dee
as ---
(1978) Mixed Blessings
as ---
(1974) Thick As Thieves
as ---
(1962) Studio Four
as Humphrey Place
(1966) You Can't Win
as ---
(1977) Murder Most English
as Pumphrey
(1979) Minder
as McQueen
(1984) Fairly Secret Army
as Sgt. Major Throttle
(1979) The Cannon & Ball Show
as Police Seargent
(1971) Justice
as Eddie
(1979) Dick Turpin
as ---
(1982) The Bounder
as Bert
(1969) The Main Chance
as Gerry Baxter
(1978) Return of the Saint
as Beeky
(1987) The New Statesman
as Mad Eddie
(1965) The Man In Room 17
as C.P.O. Bradshaw
(1962) The Saint
as Smith
(1982) Legacy of Murder
as Marley
(1961) The Avengers
as Cavell
(1982) Brendon Chase
as Sergeant Bunting
(1990) You Rang, M'Lord?
as Twelvetrees Senior