Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson was born on May 02, 1946 in UK. Bruce Robinson's big-screen debut came with A Man of our Times - Season 1 directed by Alan Clarke in 1968, strarring Rex Manson. Bruce Robinson is known for Withnail & I directed by Bruce Robinson, Richard E. Grant stars as Withnail and Paul McGann as ...& I. Bruce Robinson has got 7 awards and 4 nominations so far. The most recent award Bruce Robinson achieved is Oldenburg Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Bruce Robinson plays is The Rum Diary which will be released on Oct 28, 2011.

Such is the mythology that has sprung up around Bruce Robinson's first film, the openly autobiographical Withnail & I (1987), that it's often hard to separate fact from fiction. But the facts appear to be these: trained as an actor at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, he got off to a good early start when he was given a reasonably prominent part as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli's Roméo et Juliette (1968). But despite this and other parts for the likes of Ken Russell (Music Lovers - La Symphonie pathétique (1971)) and François Truffaut (the male lead in L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)), he found that acting mostly involved fruitless waiting for the phone to ring interspersed with the occasional TV commercial, while desperately trying to make ends meet. So he began writing screenplays in the mid-1970s, and was lucky enough to secure the patronage of producer David Puttnam who finally produced Robinson's script about Cambodia, La déchirure (1984) for which he was nominated for an Oscar. But cult success was to come a couple of years later when he wrote and directed Withnail & I (1987), a film about the squalid lives of two unemployed actors that was elevated to iconic status by students all over the world and which shot newcomer Richard E. Grant to stardom. Robinson's subsequent films, the advertising satire Tête-à-tête (1989) and the serial-killer thriller Jennifer 8 (1992), while less memorable than his debut, both show that Robinson has more than enough intelligence and brio to make his future career worth following.