Don Siegel, the film's director, and Clint Eastwood picked Robinson for the role after seeing him in a production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Robinson's first feature film role was in 1971's Dirty Harry.
In 1971, he began acting in feature films. In 1969, he had his first television role with a guest part on N.Y.P.D. His first role in New York was in the play MacBird! He went on to appear in productions in North America and Europe, including Woyzeck, Futz, Werner Liepolt's "The Young Master Dante" and The Cannibals.
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Robinson's first professional roles were as a stage actor and playwright in New York. While attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), he studied Shakespeare and voice training. Robinson began acting in high school and college theatre. After graduating, he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on the scholarship. He originally intended to become a journalist but went into acting after earning a Fulbright Scholarship. After he picketed the school's ROTC program his degree was withheld by the university, so he transferred to The New School for Social Research in New York City and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Īfter graduating from high school, Robinson attended the University of New Hampshire. Andrew's School, a boarding school in Rhode Island. In his later childhood, Robinson became a juvenile delinquent and was eventually sent to St. After his death, he and his mother moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was raised with her family. His father was a soldier in World War II and was killed when Robinson was three years old. His middle name, Jordt, was given to honor his grandfather, though he did not begin using it in his professional credits until the 1996 Deep Space Nine episode, " Body Parts".
He and his wife Irene have a daughter, actress Rachel Robinson, who appeared in Deep Space Nine episode " The Visitor".
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He is known for his portrayals of the psychotic serial killer Scorpio in Dirty Harry (1971), Larry Cotton in the horror film Hellraiser (1987), and Elim Garak in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). Originally a stage actor, he works predominantly in supporting roles on television and in low-budget films. While the pair may not be Star Trek’s first canonical gay relationship, they will always be remembered as the romance that could have been.Andrew Jordt Robinson (born February 14, 1942) is an American actor and the former director of the Master of Fine Arts acting program at the University of Southern California. In the recent Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind, showrunner/executive producer Ira Steven Behr admitted that he felt that Deep Space Nine should have pursued Garak and Bashir’s relationship after “The Wire” and let their narrative run its course. For the most part, the writers supported the character beautifully, but in that area, they just made a choice they didn’t want to go there, and if they don’t want to go there I can’t, because the writing doesn’t support it.” The fact that the attractive Human being is a man (Bashir) doesn’t make any difference to him. Originally … I loved the man’s absolute fearlessness about presenting himself to an attractive Human being.
But-it’s Star Trek and there were a couple of things working against that. He’s not gay, he’s not straight, it’s a non-issue for him. In Robinson’s own words during an interview, “I started out playing Garak as someone who doesn’t have a defined sexuality.
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