Michael Robbins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-11-14 (62 years old)

Deathday

1992-12-11

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Michael Robbins

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 ...

Acting

1972

Mutiny on the Buses

as Arthur Rudge

1964

The Bone Yard

as Sergeant Strickland

1970

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

as Sergeant Billings

1971

On the Buses

as Arthur Rudge

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

1992

Adam Bede

as Thias Bede

1962

1968

Horizontal Hold

as TV Repairman

1961

Danger! Men Working

as Second Labourer

1962

Lunch Hour

as Harris

1971

Villain

as Barzun

1970

The Looking Glass War

as Truck Driver

1974

1988

Just Ask for Diamond

as The Fat Man

1981

1967

The Whisperers

as Mr Noonan

1985

1964

Rattle of a Simple Man

as George (organiser)

1970

All the Way Up

as Taxi Driver

1963

1968

Up the Junction

as Figgins

1982

1980

Murder Rap

as Det. Sgt. Praed

1972

That's Your Funeral

as 2nd Funeral Director

1971

Zeppelin

as Cockney Sergeant

2008

The Ties That Bind Us

as Richard Mace (archive footage)

1972

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