David Robb
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David Robb is an English
actor
.
Robb has starred in various British films and television shows, including films such as Swing Kids
and Hellbound
. He is well known for playing Germanicus in the famous 1976 BBC
production of I, Claudius
and as Robin Grant, one of the principal character in Thames Television's 1981 series The Flame Trees of Thika
. He has also performed as a voice actor for several Star Wars
video games and had a recurring role in the fantasy
television series Highlander: The Series
. He has worked extensively on BBC radio drama including as Charles in the original radio series of Up the Garden Path
opposite Imelda Staunton
, as Captain Jack Aubrey in the BBC Radio 4
adaptations of the Patrick O'Brien
"Aubrey" novels and as Richard Hannay
in several adaptations of the John Buchan
novels, including Mr Standfast
in 2007.
Robb was born in London
. Brought up in Edinburgh
and educated at the Royal High School
, since 2004 he and his wife, the actress and activist Briony McRoberts
, have run in the Edinburgh Marathon
to raise money for leukaemia research.
Tricycle Tribunal Plays: The Colour of Justice (The dramatized of the Sir William Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence
, his family's search for justice and endemic racism in the British Police force.) and Half the Picture (A distillation of the Scott Inquiry into Arms-to-Iraq
. It was the first play to be performed in the Palace of Westminster.); both were directed by Nicolas Kent and performed at the Tricycle Theatre
. The productions were broadcast by the BBC.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Robb has starred in various British films and television shows, including films such as Swing Kids
Swing Kids
The Swing Kids were a group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany in the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year-old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well...
and Hellbound
Hellbound
-Track listing:#"Trace of Doubt"#"Hellbound"#"Tabletop Show"#"The Living End"#"Strange"#"Headlines"#"Mispent Youth"#"So Lonely"#"Do What I Do" - Notes :...
. He is well known for playing Germanicus in the famous 1976 BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
production of I, Claudius
I, Claudius (TV series)
I, Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Written by Jack Pulman, it proved one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time...
and as Robin Grant, one of the principal character in Thames Television's 1981 series The Flame Trees of Thika
The Flame Trees of Thika
The Flame Trees of Thikais a British television mini-series of seven 50-minute episodes made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya's Central Province...
. He has also performed as a voice actor for several Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
video games and had a recurring role in the fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
television series Highlander: The Series
Highlander: The Series
Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...
. He has worked extensively on BBC radio drama including as Charles in the original radio series of Up the Garden Path
Up the Garden Path
Up the Garden Path was a 1984 novel by Sue Limb which was then adapted into a radio series by BBC Radio 4 and later into a television sitcom by Granada TV for ITV...
opposite Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake...
, as Captain Jack Aubrey in the BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
adaptations of the Patrick O'Brien
Patrick O'Brien
Patrick O'Brien is an American guitarist and lutenist born in New York. He is a recording artist, but is best known as a pedagogue in the field of Early plucked instruments in America, and expert in musicians' hand anatomy...
"Aubrey" novels and as Richard Hannay
Richard Hannay
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer...
in several adaptations of the John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....
novels, including Mr Standfast
Mr Standfast
Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle ; Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps , is set in the...
in 2007.
Robb was born in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. Brought up in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
and educated at the Royal High School
Royal High School (Edinburgh)
The Royal High School of Edinburgh is a co-educational state school administered by the City of Edinburgh Council. The school was founded in 1128 and is one of the oldest schools in Scotland, and has, throughout its history, been high achieving, consistently attaining well above average exam results...
, since 2004 he and his wife, the actress and activist Briony McRoberts
Briony McRoberts
Briony McRoberts, , is a British actress.On television, she played 'Tessa Kilpin' in Episode 057 'No Stone' of The Professionals, and has also appeared in The Bill, Heartbeat, EastEnders, Taggart, and Diamonds...
, have run in the Edinburgh Marathon
Edinburgh Marathon
The is a marathon race that has been held each year in Edinburgh, Scotland since 2003, usually in May. It is run over the traditional distance of .The principal charity partner for the 2011 marathon is...
to raise money for leukaemia research.
Partial filmography
- Downton Abbey (2010)
- The Young VictoriaThe Young VictoriaThe Young Victoria is a 2009 period drama film based on the early life and reign of Queen Victoria, and her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The film was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by screenwriter Julian Fellowes. Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Sarah, Duchess of...
(2009) - Treasure IslandTreasure Island (1999 film)Treasure Island is a 1999 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. It was directed by Peter Rowe, and starred Kevin Zegers as Jim Hawkins and Jack Palance as Long John Silver in his final film appearance....
(1999) - RegenerationRegeneration (1997 film)Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...
(1997) - The House of AngeloThe House of AngeloThe House of Angelo is a 1997 British historical drama film directed by Jim Goddard and starring Edward Woodward, Peter Woodward and Sylvia Syms...
(1997) - The Crow Road (TV series)The Crow Road (TV series)The Crow Road was a television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the complex novel by Scottish novelist Iain Banks. It was directed by Gavin Millar....
(1996) - HellboundHellbound (film)Hellbound is a 1994 action/thriller film starring Chuck Norris. It was directed by Aaron Norris and written by Ian Rabin, Anthony Ridio and Brent Friedman.-Plot:...
(1995) - Swing KidsSwing Kids (film)Swing Kids is a film produced in 1993, directed by Thomas Carter and starring Christian Bale, Robert Sean Leonard and Kenneth Branagh. The runtime is approximately 112 minutes. The film is considered as being part of the Lindy Hop revival of the 1980s and 1990s...
(1993) - CluedoCluedo (game show)Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who...
(1990, Christmas special) - Up the Garden PathUp the Garden PathUp the Garden Path was a 1984 novel by Sue Limb which was then adapted into a radio series by BBC Radio 4 and later into a television sitcom by Granada TV for ITV...
(1990) - IvanhoeIvanhoe (1982 film)Ivanhoe is a 1982 television film adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. The film was directed by Douglas Camfield and screenplay written by John Gay...
(Television movieTelevision movieA television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
) (1982) - HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
(BBC) (1980) - Dreams Lost Dreams Found (1987)
- The SwordsmanThe Swordsman (1974 film)The Swordsman is a 1974 British action film directed by Lindsay Shonteff and starring Linda Marlowe, Alan Lake and Edina Ronay. It was a sequel to the 1973 film Big Zapper and follows the adventures of a female private detective named Harriet Zapper....
(1974)
Theatre
Performed in two of Richard Norton-TaylorRichard Norton-Taylor
Richard Norton-Taylor is a British editor, journalist and playwright.He is a security-affairs editor of the British newspaper The Guardian.-Early life and education:...
Tricycle Tribunal Plays: The Colour of Justice (The dramatized of the Sir William Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager from Eltham, southeast London, who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993....
, his family's search for justice and endemic racism in the British Police force.) and Half the Picture (A distillation of the Scott Inquiry into Arms-to-Iraq
Arms-to-Iraq
The Arms-to-Iraq affair concerned the uncovering of the government-endorsed sale of arms by British companies to Iraq, then under the rule of Saddam Hussein...
. It was the first play to be performed in the Palace of Westminster.); both were directed by Nicolas Kent and performed at the Tricycle Theatre
Tricycle Theatre
The Tricycle Theatre is located on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England. During the last 30 years, the Tricycle has been presenting plays reflecting the cultural diversity of its community; in particular Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African works, as well as...
. The productions were broadcast by the BBC.