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 Varneys 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, MLord? 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.Robbinss film credits included The Whisperers, Up The Junction, The Looking Glass War, Zeppelin and Blake Edwards films The Pink Panther Strikes Again and Victor/Victoria. He also had an extensive career as a radio actor, including a role in the soap opera Waggoners Walk and the satirical 1970s show Life is What Yer Make It.Robbins was an indefatigable worker for charity. He was active in the Grand Order of Water Rats (being elected Rat of the Year in 1978) and the Catholic Stage Guild, and received a Papal Award for his services in 1987. In one of his last television appearances, in A Little Bit of Heaven Robbins recalled his childhood visits to Norfolk and spoke of his faith and love of the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. Michael Robbins had a brother Jack who was a head teacher at Saint Gregorys Catholic middle school in Bedford in the 1970s and early 1980s. Michael made some guest appearances at this school throughout the years and sometimes entertained the pupils with various sketches with his brother Jack RobbinsIn the mid-1970s he also directed a film How Are You?

Films indisponible à partir de Michael Robbins

You in Your Small Corner

Georgie

Film 1962

Mutiny on the Buses

Arthur his brother in law

Film 1972

The Bone Yard

Sergeant Strickland

Film 1964

Till Death Us Do Part

Fred

Film 1969

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

Sergeant Billings

Film 1970

The Drummer and the Bloke

Jack

Film 1968

On the Buses

Arthur Rudge - Stan's Brother-in-Law

Film 1971

Holiday on the Buses

Arthur Rudge

Film 1973

The Bargee

Bargee

Film 1964

Dead Man's Chest

Sergeant Harris

Film 1965

The Count of Monte Cristo

Gaspard Caderousse

Film 1964

Crossplot

Garage Attendant

Film 1969

Children of the Damned

Film 1964

Adam Bede

Thias Bede

Film 1992

The Saint and the Brave Goose

Beeky

Film 1979

A Prize of Arms

Orford

Film 1962

Horizontal Hold

TV Repairman

Film 1968

Danger! Men Working

Second Labourer

Film 1961

Lunch Hour

Harris

Film 1962

Soap Opera in Stockwell

Bert

Film 1973

No Sex Please: We're British

Car Driver

Film 1973

The Looking Glass War

Truck Driver

Film 1970

Man About the House

Doorman

Film 1974

Just Ask for Diamond

The Fat Man

Film 1988

The Great Muppet Caper

Henderson

Film 1981

The Whisperers

Mr Noonan

Film 1967

Lost In London

Bill

Film 1985

Rattle of a Simple Man

George (organiser)

Film 1964

All the Way Up

Taxi Driver

Film 1970

What a Crazy World

Percy

Film 1963

Up the Junction

Figgins

Film 1968

Doctor Who: The Visitation

Richard Mace

Film 1982

Murder Rap

Det. Sgt. Praed

Film 1980

That's Your Funeral

2nd Funeral Director

Film 1972

Séries TV indisponible à partir de Michael Robbins

Adam Adamant Lives!

Tv 1966

On the Buses

Tv 1969

Department S

Burton

Tv 1969

The Bill

Tv 1984

Doctor Who

Richard Mace

Tv 1963

Z-Cars

Tv 1962

George and Mildred

Tv 1976

The Sweeney

Kevin Lee

Tv 1975

The Avengers

Henry Farrow

Tv 1961

The Good Life

Mr. Bulstrode

Tv 1975

The Chinese Detective

Tv 1981

Rumpole of the Bailey

Tv 1975

The Saint

Harry

Tv 1962

Callan

Tv 1967

One Foot In the Grave

Tv 1990

Fresh Fields

Mr. Pringle

Tv 1984

Redcap

Tv 1964

No Hiding Place

Tv 1959

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Tv 1967

Black and Blue

Tv 1973

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Tv 1978

Sherlock Holmes

Tv 1964

How's Your Father

Tv 1979

Judge Dee

Tv 1969

Mixed Blessings

Tv 1978

Thick As Thieves

Tv 1974

Studio Four

Humphrey Place

Tv 1962

You Can't Win

Tv 1966

Murder Most English

Pumphrey

Tv 1977

Fairly Secret Army

Sgt. Major Throttle

Tv 1984

The Cannon & Ball Show

Police Seargent

Tv 1979

Dick Turpin

Tv 1979

The Main Chance

Gerry Baxter

Tv 1969

Return of the Saint

Beeky

Tv 1978

The New Statesman

Mad Eddie

Tv 1987

The Man In Room 17

C.P.O. Bradshaw

Tv 1965

The Saint

Smith

Tv 1962

Legacy of Murder

Marley

Tv 1982

The Avengers

Cavell

Tv 1961

Brendon Chase

Sergeant Bunting

Tv 1982

You Rang, M'Lord?

Twelvetrees Senior

Tv 1990