He played a small role as student doctor Grace in the 1972–73 series of Doctor In Charge. Robinson won an Arts Council bursary to work as a director at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, and founded the Avon Touring Company, a Bristol-based community theatre company, with writer David Illingworth. Acting career Early career Īfter drama school, he spent four years in repertory theatre most notably at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Through genealogical research, Robinson found that one of his great-great-great grandmothers, Julia Levy, was Jewish his father, unaware of this ancestry, had been beaten by Fascists in the East End of London in the 1930s who assumed he was a Jew. Over the next five years, he appeared in a number of West End theatre shows, and in film, and television. Robinson had his first acting role at the age of 13, as a member of Fagin's gang in the original production of the musical Oliver!, including a stint as the Artful Dodger when the boy playing the role failed to turn up. Too young to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robinson enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1963, graduating in 1966. He passed four O-levels (English language, English literature, history, and geography) and went on to study for A-levels, but did not complete them and decided to study at a drama school instead. He attended Woodford Green Preparatory School and Wanstead County High grammar school. His parents were from working-class Hackney backgrounds his father was a civil servant and council employee who served in the RAF, and his mother, an audio-typist, served in the WAAF. Robinson was born on 15 August 1946 in Homerton, London, to Phyllis and Leslie Robinson. Robinson, a member of the Labour Party, was knighted in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours for his public and political service. He played Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and has presented several historical documentaries, including the Channel 4 series Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. Sir Anthony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, author, broadcaster, comedian, presenter, and political activist. From the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 3 July 2011.
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