Michael Robbins
Actor
Born November 14, 1930 in London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
The Ties That Bind Us
Richard Mace (archive footage)
Adam Bede
Thias Bede
One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat
Mr Killick
You Rang, M'Lord?
Twelvetrees Senior
One Foot in the Grave
Just Ask for Diamond
The Fat Man
The New Statesman
Mad Eddie
Lost In London
Bill
In Sickness and in Health
Rail Worker
Dempsey and Makepeace
Simmons
The Bill
Fresh Fields
Mr. Pringle
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Nym
Victor/Victoria
Manager of Victoria's Hotel
The Bounder
Bert
Doctor Who: The Visitation
Richard Mace
Brendon Chase
Sergeant Bunting
The Great Muppet Caper
Henderson
The Chinese Detective
Murder Rap
Det. Sgt. Praed
Minder
McQueen
The Cannon & Ball Show
Police Seargent
The Saint and the Brave Goose
Beeky
Dick Turpin
Sgt. Bullock
Return of the Saint
Beeky
Mixed Blessings
Fred Fachetti
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Pumphrey
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Jarvis
George and Mildred
Rumpole of the Bailey
Cyril Timson
The Good Life
Mr. Bulstrode
The Sweeney
Kevin Lee
Man About the House
Doorman
Thick as Thieves
Soap Opera in Stockwell
Bert
No Sex Please - We're British
Car Driver
Centre Play
Swaffer
Holiday on the Buses
Arthur Rudge
That's Your Funeral
2nd Funeral Director
Mutiny on the Buses
Arthur Rudge
Blinker's Spy-Spotter
Policeman
Justice
Eddie
On the Buses
Arthur Rudge
Villain
Barzun
Zeppelin
Cockney Sergeant
All the Way Up
Taxi Driver
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Sergeant Billings
The Looking Glass War
Truck Driver
Crossplot
Garage Attendant
Department S
Burton
The Main Chance
Gerry Baxter
Judge Dee
On the Buses
Arthur Rudge
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Michael Vint
Till Death Us Do Part
Fred
The Drummer and the Bloke
Jack
Up the Junction
Figgins
The Whisperers
Mr Noonan
Callan
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
You Can't Win
Adam Adamant Lives!
Dead Man's Chest
Sergeant Harris
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Harris
The Man in Room 17
C.P.O. Bradshaw
Londoners
Shaw
Gideon's Way
Smith
Rattle of a Simple Man
George (organiser)
Redcap
Private Pendlebury
The Count of Monte Cristo
Gaspard Caderousse
The Bone Yard
Sergeant Strickland
The Wednesday Play
Sergeant Strickland
Act of Murder
Van Driver
Sherlock Holmes
Theatre 625
Tom
The Bargee
Bargee
Children of the Damned
(uncredited)
Doctor Who
Richard Mace
What a Crazy World
Percy
A Prize of Arms
Orford
The Saint
Harry
You in Your Small Corner
Georgie
Z-Cars
Lunch Hour
Harris
Danger! Men Working
Second Labourer
The Avengers
Henry Farrow
No Hiding Place
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Sergeant Harris
Armchair Theatre
Dave
Dixon of Dock Green
Charlie Mills