Tim Robertson

Robertson was born in 1944 in Braintree, Essex, in the UK. He relocated to Australia in 1952.

He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia (1965).{{Cite web|last=|title=Tim Robertson|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12036 |access-date=2021-08-16|website=AustLit|language=en}} After graduating, he taught drama at various institutions, including Antioch College in the US (from 1967 to 1968), and Flinders University in Adelaide (from 1969 to 1972) where he also began adapting and directing plays.{{Cite web|last=|title= Pram Factory Theatre and the Australian Performing Group |url= https://www.thekeenans.id.au/auspergro/tag/photographs/ |website=www.thekeenans.id.au}}

In 1972, he joined the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory in Melbourne, where he wrote, acted, and directed plays.

Robertson made his first onscreen appearance in 1974, in the television series Rush, and that same year, he also featured in cult Ozploitation horror film The Cars That Ate Paris.

He is known for his role as Arthur West in the 1976 award-winning drama miniseries Power Without Glory. From 1983 to 1984 he played various roles in the comedy series Australia You're Standing In It. He then appeared in the 1987 Kennedy Miller miniseries Vietnam alongside Nicole Kidman in one of her early roles. From 1991 to 1992, Robertson had a regular role as Jack Taylor in the risqué soap opera Chances. He also appeared in two roles in police procedural crime drama series Stingers between 1999 and 2003.

Robertson has had numerous television guest roles, in series such as Matlock Police, Homicide, Rush, Division 4, Bluey, The Sullivans, Skyways, Cop Shop, Young Ramsay, Special Squad, Carson's Law, Prisoner, Rafferty's Rules, Round the Twist, Neighbours, The Flying Doctors, Ocean Girl, Halifax f.p., Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, CrashBurn and Last Man Standing.

He has also starred in several miniseries including Tandarra (1976), Against the Wind (1978), Scales of Justice (1983), The Heroes (1989) and All the Rivers Run II (1990).

Robertson has appeared in numerous films throughout his career. Early films included Petersen (1974) with Jack Thompson, football comedy The Great MacArthy (1975), Fred Schepisi’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), John Duigan’s Dimboola (1979) and biographical drama Phar Lap (1983).

He appeared in the 1987 coming-of-age Duigan classic The Year My Voice Broke starring Ben Mendelsohn and Noah Taylor. The following year he was in Evil Angels, opposite Meryl Streep and Sam Neill. He appeared opposite Mendelsohn again in 1990 hit comedy The Big Steal and 1997 drama Amy. He was then in 1999 film Holy Smoke with Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel.

Later films include 2001 comedies He Died with a Felafel in His Hand alongside Noah Taylor and The Man Who Sued God opposite Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, 2010 drama Matching Jack, 2011 film The Eye of the Storm opposite Geoffrey Rush, and the 2014 Angus Sampson comedy The Mule.

In 2001 he published a history of the Pram Factory.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070813215716/http://www.pramfactory.com/memoirsfolder/Robertson-Tim.html Tim Robertson]. The Pram Factory

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• [http://www.filmreference.com/film/39/Tim-Robertson.html Tim Robertson] at Film Reference

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