Bruce Robinson

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Bruce Robinson (2011)

Bruce Robinson (born May 2, 1946 in London ) is a British actor , screenwriter , writer and director .

Life

After growing up in Broadstairs , Kent , Robinson graduated from London's Central School of Speech and Drama . He made his actor debut in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli , where he played the supporting role of Benvolio. In the film Tchaikovsky - Genie und Wahnsinn (1970) he played alongside Richard Chamberlain , in the film The Story of Adèle H. (1975) by François Truffaut alongside Isabelle Adjani .

Since the acting offers for Robinson in the 1970s were rather mediocre, he turned more to writing. For the screenplay of the film The Killing Fields (1984) Robinson was nominated for the film awards Oscar and Golden Globe and won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) and the Writers Guild of America Award . As a screenwriter, he won the Evening Standard British Film Award for the successful tragic comedy Withnail & I (1987), which he also directed. For the film Jennifer 8 (1992) with Andy García and Uma Thurman , he won an award from the Cognac Festival du Film Policier .

In 1998 Robinson published his novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman , which was followed by other publications in the 2000s. After a lengthy retreat from the film business, his film The Rum Diary , a Hunter S. Thompson film adaptation with Johnny Depp in the lead role , was made in 2011 .

Robinson has been married to Sophie Windham since 1984 and has two children.

Filmography (selection)

Bruce Robinson with Lesley-Anne Down (1979)

As an actor

As a screenwriter

As a director

Bibliography (selection)

  • The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman , Bloomsbury , London 1998
  • The Obvious Elephant (picture book with illustrations by Sophie Windham), Bloomsbury, London 2000
  • Harold and the Duck (picture book with illustrations by Sophie Windham), Bloomsbury, London 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Robinson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ "The native of London first studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in his hometown." "Rum Diary" press booklet, Wild Bunch Germany, 2012, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Interview by Robert Chalmers: Bruce Robinson: 'I started drinking again because of The Rum Diary'. The Independent, February 20, 2011, p. 15 , accessed July 31, 2012 . | quote = Bruce Robinson's childhood, in Broadstairs, Kent, inspired his remarkable 1998 novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman.
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London