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- robert-robertson-728828.html accessdate "2009-06-14".
- robert-robertson-728828.html date "2001-02-07".
- robert-robertson-728828.html isCitedBy Robert_Robertson_(actor).
- robert-robertson-728828.html newspaper The_Independent.
- robert-robertson-728828.html quote "After decades spent on the stage in repertory theatre and the West End, the Scottish actor Robert Robertson found national fame on television as the pipe-smoking pathologist Dr Stephen Andrews in the gritty police series Taggart. The actor took this supporting role in every story of the long-running crime drama, which depicted horrific crimes on the streets of Glasgow. Taggart began as a pilot entitled Killer , written by Glenn Chandler, and the body count soon mounted when the series was launched in 1985. Mark McManus played the tough, grim-faced Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart until his sudden death in 1994. However, the series continued with Taggart's sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Jardine , and Detective Constable Jackie Reid taking charge of investigations. Robertson was the only surviving member of the original 1983 cast. Born in St Andrews in 1930, he enjoyed a long stage career, beginning at Manchester Rep, before acting on television. His West End roles included Dr Grimwig in Oliver!, Lionel Bart's acclaimed Dickens musical, at the New Theatre. Robertson also wrote his own one- man show, Your Humble Servant, which he performed at the Open Space Theatre, London. In Scotland, he acted and directed with Dundee Repertory Company and was its artistic director. Robertson's stage roles included Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Jaques in As You Like It, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frank in Educating Rita and James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night. He directed plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, The Caretaker and A Voyage Round My Father. He also took a leading role in the campaign to move the company to a new, purpose-built theatre in Dundee city centre. On television, Robertson played Palanguez in the BBC's 1981 The Day of the Triffids, starring John Duttine, and a fiscal in a BBC Scotland adaptation of Jack House's book Open Season . He also acted the sheriff in the Scottish Television play Extras , about female sauna workers starting a co-operative. On the big screen, Robertson appeared in the Danish experimental director Lars von Trier's film Breaking the Waves as one of the church elders who denied Bess McNeill a proper funeral because of her immoral behaviour. But it was as Dr Andrews in Taggart that Robertson was best known and he was seen on screen for the last time last month in the feature- length story "Falling in Love". He often joked that playing a pathologist was far from typecasting - he hated the sight of blood.".
- robert-robertson-728828.html title "Obituaries, Robert Robertson".
- robert-robertson-728828.html url robert-robertson-728828.html.