Tony Robinson
Acting
Biography
Sir Anthony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and has hosted several historical documentaries including the Channel 4 programmes Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.
Born: August 15, 1946
Place of Birth: Homerton, London, UK
Known For
The Oresteia
Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play. Directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, this is an all-male performance with masks.
Unexplained
British show about possible x-files style stories.
Britain's Ancient Tracks with Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson walks our oldest roads to find the truth behind the megaliths, burial sites, ley lines and hidden caves along their path, and connect the clues they have left hidden in the British landscape.
The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson
The actor and television presenter embarks upon a 200-mile journey from source to sea to discover what makes the Thames one of the greatest rivers in the world.
Time Crashers
Ten celebrities are about to leave their 21st century lives and everything they know behind to become time travellers. Our ten intrepid travellers will crash into six very different eras of British history and have no idea where – or when – they're going. They will spend a day immersed in each era, living, working, dressing and eating as the ‘lower' classes did whilst attempting to follow orders and fulfil a task set by their superiors. Will they be able to survive history and will they be able to leave their smartphones behind?
Airline
Airline is a fly on the wall television programme, produced in the United Kingdom that showcases the daily happenings of passengers, ground workers and on-board staff of Britannia and later EasyJet. The show was broadcast between 1998 and 2006 on ITV, is often repeated on ITV2 and shown on syndication on Pick TV. The programme's success sparked a US version of the series, following American low-cost airline Southwest Airlines.
Tony Robinson's Marvellous Machines
Sir Tony Robinson travels the world to explore the most unusual and innovative machines and vehicles in this series packed with exciting stunts and epic challenges.
Blackadder
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
Blackadder
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
The Young Ones
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
Filmography
as Canon F.G. Scott
as Presenter
as Self - Contributor
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self -Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Uncle Patrick
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Himself - Presenter
as Presenter
as Narrator
as Self
as Host
as Presenter
as Himself - Presenter
as Daddy
as Narrator
as Daedalus Greco
as Himself (presenter)
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Narrator (Voice)
as Self - Presenter
as Erasmus
as Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Vernon Crumley
as Vernon Crumley
as Self
as Presenter
as Robin
as Self - Host
as Self - Presenter
as Himself
as Nick Reid
as Himself
as Pierre Duclos (archive footage)
as Judas Iscariot
as Baldrick
as Broom (voice)
as Self - Presenter
as Engywook
as Self - Presenter
as Marcus
as Pierre Duclos
as Headmaster
as The Sheriff of Nottingham
as Baldricks
as Self
as Sod Off Baldrick
as Self
as Reg Podmore
as Speaker (voice)
as Dr Hamilton
as Speechwriter (Voice)
as Narrator
as Servant
as Private S. Baldrick
as Baldrick
as Dr. Not The Nine O'Clock News
as Shlomo Denkovitz
as Customs house officer
as Willie
as Self - Panellist
as Matthews
as Motorcycle Courier
as Younger Ernie
as Reporter
as Man in the Crowd
as Len
as Matthews
as Rider (uncredited)
as Himself