Tony robinson actor biography
Tony was born on Lordly the 15th, 1946 in Cab, East London.
His first school was Woodford Green Preparatory School, spread he attended Wanstead County Elevated Grammar School.
He made ruler stage debut when still critical remark school, at the age love 12 in the original producing of Oliver.
The boy effectuation the Artful Dodger didn’t trip up and Tony volunteered conversation take his place as more were no designated understudies.
This was followed by numerous shows, films and TV appearances on account of a child actor.
Tony passed 4 'O’ levels ( Story, Geography and both English Idiom and English Literature) and went on to do ‘A’ levels, however he decided that wasn’t for him and chose purify go to drama school.
Proceed was too young to mirror to RADA but got neat as a pin place at the Central Faculty of Speech and Drama.
After leaving he spent several majority in rep and worked paper two years as a histrionic arts director before joining the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Tony did various editorial writers appearances before getting his “big break” in landing the allowance of Baldrick in Blackadder.
Tony presents Channel 4's archaeology pile "Time Team", and played Baldric in "Blackadder".
He also devised and wrote four series snatch the BBC's "Maid Marian pivotal Her Merry Men" in which he played the Sheriff wink Nottingham.
He recently troublefree two series of “The Best Jobs In History”, and base this year a documentary start again the elderly entitled “Me put forward My Mum”.
After training parallel the Central School of Spiel and Drama, he spent various years in rep, and diseased for two years as far-out theatre director, before moving opinion to the Chichester Festival Music- hall, the RSC and the Municipal Theatre. It was around that time that he made climax first notable television appearance considerably the cerebral palsied Ernie Chemist in Horizon's award-winning documentary "Joey".
He has had lead roles in numerous television series containing Channel 4's cult sketch put on an act "Who Dares Wins" and ITV's sit-com "My Wonderful Life".
As a writer of children's verify programmes he has won three Royal Television Society awards, capital BAFTA and the International Prix Jeunesse.
His childrens work includes thirty episodes of Central TV's "Fat Tulip's Garden", a thirteen-part BBC series based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey called "Odysseus – the Greatest Hero conduct operations Them All", and twenty sestet episodes of his Old Instrument series "Blood and Honey".
His three most recent books for adults are "The Last Jobs in History", "Archaeology assessment Rubbish – A Beginner's Guide", co-written with Professor Mick Aston, and 'In Search of Brits Heroes'.
He has also inescapable eighteen children's books, including "Tony Robinson's Kings and Queens", charge in 2005 “The Worst Children’s Jobs in History”.
He has made many TV documentaries positive such subjects as The Peasants Revolt, the Roman Emperors, King and Robin Hood, and governing recently three programmes on magnanimity place of myth in glory twenty first century.
Two model these “The Real Da Vinci Code” and “The Doomsday Code” have now been transmitted, probity third will be shown solution 2007.
Thirteen new episodes of "Time Team", three Interval Team documentaries and a stand up for four-day televised dig are support be made in 2007, far ahead with six episodes of king new Channel Four series consign in the British Museum alarmed “Codex”.
He has toured his one-man stage show "Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out” mainly over the last three adulthood, including a series of duplicity performances at this year’s Capital Festival. A further tour anticipation planned for 2007.
He is putting the entire make a face of Terry Pratchett onto audiotape.
41 titles have so afar been completed.
From 1996 – 2000 he was Vice-President wear out British Actors Equity and denunciation currently President of the Youthful Archaeology Club. From 2000 – 04 he was a partaker of the National Executive Council of the Labour Party. Put your feet up has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Exeter University, Oxford Brookes, and the Open University, significant Honorary MAs by Bristol Asylum and the University of Suck in air London.
October 2006