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Jun 15, 2019 · When its writer-director Bruce Robinson was a handsome young actor, he played Benvolio in Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the director’s octopus-handed personal attentions were reportedly ...
Feb 20, 2011 · Bruce Robinson's childhood, in Broadstairs, Kent, inspired his remarkable 1998 novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman. In conversation, he refers to Rob variously as "my stepfather", "my ...
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Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I, a film with comic and tragic elements, set in London during the 1960s which drew on his experiences as ' a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor' in Camden Town. As an actor, he has worked with the ...
May 3, 2018 · Robinson was born on 2 May 1946 in London, less than a year after the end of World War Two. Thus he was part of the remarkable generation of “post-war” children who would grow up to be the writers, artists and musicians who would transform Britain’s image of itself and its image in the rest of the world from the 1960s onwards.
Nov 6, 2020 · Take my fondness for old tools. My father was an American Jew. I never met him and never knew, until I was 68 years old, that I was the product of a GI shag in the war. When my stepfather came ...
Mar 20, 2017 · When eviction was imminent, this bulwark of bohemianism climbed on to the roof, took a glug of champagne and swan-dived to his death. His flat is now on sale for £730,000. Robinson’s original ending for the film had Withnail drinking Margaux through a shotgun barrel before blowing his brains out.
But first, kick back with some lighter fluid and enjoy Robinson’s five favorite films. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925; 100% Tomatometer) The first one is The Gold Rush, by Charlie Chaplin. It’s the apogee of his genius. I saw that film when I was 11 or 12 years old in a cinema in Ramsgate, Kensington, and there were three people in ...
