Robin Sebastian Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Robin Sebastian
Acting
Biography
Robin was born in Surrey, UK in 1965. He attended The King's School Canterbury (where he obtain his first agent whilst playing Mercutio in a school play) followed by Manchester University where he read History of Art. He then went to The Arts Educational Schools Acting Company where he studied drama. Having worked in theatre and television in the UK and Vienna (where he met his wife, the Actress Lucy Sullivan). His big break came in 2003 when he was cast as the camp comedy actor Kenneth Williams in 'Round the Horne Revisited' which was such a success that it went from fringe theatre to the West End, Tv Special and the Royal Veriety Show. Since then he has played among others, Carmen Ghia opposite Peter Kay in the UK tour of 'The Producers', Lt Gruber in 'Allo Allo', Robin Craigie in 'Volcano' by Noel Coward in the West End. He has appeared in many commercials, the latest being for Heinz Ketchup with the wonderful Ed Sheeran.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Living
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
The Dance of Shiva
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the Empire.
Babs
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation; her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor, inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; her complicated relationship with her father; her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight; capturing the attention of theatre director Joan Littlewood; and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)
Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.
Holy Flying Circus
A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.
Horne A'Plenty
From the team that brought you the West End hit Round The Horne…Revisited comes Horne A’Plenty, with scripts by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. Horne A’Plenty is written as a tribute to one of the great Radio and TV performers, Kenneth Horne. Two weeks before they were due to start the next series of Round the Horne, Kenneth Horne passed away. It was the 14th of February 1969. Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke had successfully written half of the fourth series with Barry Took, and had spent many months working on what would have comprised the fifth. Fast-forward 48 years, and Brian Cooke took these ‘pieces’ out of the drawers they’d been consigned to and read them all again. The show consists of many of those ‘pieces’, along with brand new material – and includes no less than four film parodies!