Robin McCallum Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Robin McCallum
Acting
Biography
Robin Peter McCallum (previously Robin Lermitte; 1961 – 15 August 2022) was a British actor and weather presenter. McCallum initially worked as an actor in minor roles – most memorably as Detective Chief Superintendent David Graves in the BBC drama Between The Lines and as D.I. Bob Ashley in EastEnders (1988–1989). He played Piers in the Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) episode (9/6) "Wink Three Times" (1988). He made his television debut as Lord Alfred Douglas in the ITV series Oscar (1985). McCallum entered a competition on ITV's This Morning in 2002 to become ITV's newest weather presenter, which he subsequently won. As a result, he became a national ITV Weather presenter, until he joined the ITV London regional weather team alongside fellow forecasters Manali Lukha and Chrissie Reidy in 2005. At times he also appeared on ITV Anglia and ITV Meridian. McCallum co-presented the ITN produced London Tonight, the regional news programme for ITV London, on occasions throughout 2010. In August 2013 he appeared on ITV Channel Television. McCallum died in August 2022.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's political powerful father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Arrested for corrupting Lord Douglas' morals, Wilde spends a debilitating five years in Reading Gaol, emerging a shattered shell of his former self
Lenin: The Train
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
B. Monkey
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
The Princess Academy
Cindy Cathcart is a student out of place at an exclusive Swiss finishing school, Von Pupsin Academy. A poor orphan, Cindy is attending on a scholarship, and is resented by her snobby peers as well as Fraulein Stinkenschmidt. She soon finds allies: her British roommate, an outgoing Texan, Lulu Belle, an Italian Mafiosi's daughter, Isabella, and most crucial, the school's headmistress, Countess Von Pupsin.
The Zero Option
An ex-SAS officer and an ex member of the Special Boat Services, team up to search for £ 2 million worth of diamonds which go missing when an aircraft is hijacked. Ruthless terrorists seize a London embassy residence. The SAS are called in. There's intense political pressure for a quick resolution. The worst fears of David Barber, the officer in command, are tragically realised. With a brilliant career in ruins, the prospects for ex-Major Barber seem grim until he meets Colonel Patrick Ansell, Managing director of Saracen systems Ltd.