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Toby Robins is a Actor born on 13 march 1931
Toby Robins (March 13, 1931 — March 21, 1986) was a Canadian actress of film, stage and television.
Robins starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such performers as Jane Mallett, Barry Morse, John Drainie, Ruth Springford, and James Doohan among others. She appeared in a number of television and film roles beginning in the mid-1950s, and hosted the first-ever CBC Television series, The Big Revue in 1952. In Toronto she played in repertory with Lorne Greene, Mavor Moore, and Don Harron. At the Crest Theatre she played the leading parts in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dream Girl and many others.
Robins became a popular television personality as an original member of the cast of the long-running CBC television series Front Page Challenge in 1957, remaining with the program until 1961. Originally hosted by Alex Barris and later Fred Davis, Front Page Challenge was a current events series disguised as a panel-style game show in a similar format to the American What's My Line?. Panelists had to guess the news story or person behind a news story by asking questions of the guest; after the game portion, the guest was then interviewed informally by the panel.
Although Robins was initially criticized for asking simple and sometimes unintelligent questions, she soon found her journalistic sea legs and before long was holding her own alongside the more experienced journalists, including her co-panellists Gordon Sinclair and Pierre Berton. She left the series in a salary dispute in 1961 and was replaced by future senator Betty Kennedy (who remained with the show until its demise in the 1990s). Robins returned to the show from time to time as a guest panelist.
In 1964 Robins relocated to London and she appeared in a number of film and television productions, including Space: 1999 (the two-parter "The Bringers of Wonder", which was later re-issued as the television film Destination Moonbase Alpha) and in 1981 she played Melina Havelock's ill-fated mother in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). She appeared in an episode of Minder entitled The Willesden Suite, broadcast in February 1984. In London she appeared in such dramas onstage as The Relapse, The Latent Heterosexual, Flip Side, and The Aspern Papers.
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Birth 13 march 1931
Death 21 march 1986 (at 55 years)
Death 21 march 1986 (at 55 years)
Robins starred in hundreds of radio and stage productions in Canada from the late 1940s through the 1960s, working with such performers as Jane Mallett, Barry Morse, John Drainie, Ruth Springford, and James Doohan among others. She appeared in a number of television and film roles beginning in the mid-1950s, and hosted the first-ever CBC Television series, The Big Revue in 1952. In Toronto she played in repertory with Lorne Greene, Mavor Moore, and Don Harron. At the Crest Theatre she played the leading parts in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dream Girl and many others.
Robins became a popular television personality as an original member of the cast of the long-running CBC television series Front Page Challenge in 1957, remaining with the program until 1961. Originally hosted by Alex Barris and later Fred Davis, Front Page Challenge was a current events series disguised as a panel-style game show in a similar format to the American What's My Line?. Panelists had to guess the news story or person behind a news story by asking questions of the guest; after the game portion, the guest was then interviewed informally by the panel.
Although Robins was initially criticized for asking simple and sometimes unintelligent questions, she soon found her journalistic sea legs and before long was holding her own alongside the more experienced journalists, including her co-panellists Gordon Sinclair and Pierre Berton. She left the series in a salary dispute in 1961 and was replaced by future senator Betty Kennedy (who remained with the show until its demise in the 1990s). Robins returned to the show from time to time as a guest panelist.
In 1964 Robins relocated to London and she appeared in a number of film and television productions, including Space: 1999 (the two-parter "The Bringers of Wonder", which was later re-issued as the television film Destination Moonbase Alpha) and in 1981 she played Melina Havelock's ill-fated mother in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). She appeared in an episode of Minder entitled The Willesden Suite, broadcast in February 1984. In London she appeared in such dramas onstage as The Relapse, The Latent Heterosexual, Flip Side, and The Aspern Papers.
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Scandalous (1984)
, 1h32Directed by Rob Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Hays, M. Emmet Walsh, John Gielgud, Pamela Stephenson, Ron Cook, Jim Dale
Roles Pamela Reynolds
Rating44%
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
, 2h8Directed by John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Underwater action films, Political films
Actors Roger Moore, Julian Glover, Carole Bouquet, Chaim Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Lois Maxwell
Roles Iona Havelock
Rating66%
The British spy boat St Georges, which holds the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), the system used by the Ministry of Defence to communicate with and co-ordinate the Royal Navy's fleet of Polaris submarines, is sunk after accidentally trawling an old naval mine in the Ionian Sea. MI6 agent James Bond, code name "007", is ordered by the Minister of Defence, Sir Frederick Gray and MI6 Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner, to retrieve the ATAC before the Soviets, as the transmitter could order attacks by the submarines' Polaris ballistic missiles.
Licensed to Love and Kill (1979)
, 1h34Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films
Actors Gareth Hunt, Nick Tate, Geoffrey Keen, Don Fellows, John Arnatt, Toby Robins
Rating44%
Secret Agent Charles Bind is called in to investigate the disappearance of Lord Dangerfield, a British diplomat. The trail leads Bind to Dangefield’s daughter Carlotta Muff-Dangerfield who is called “Lotta Muff”, an ambitious American Senator named Lucifer Orchid, and Bind’s counterpart in the forces of evil, Ultra One.
Spy Story (1976)
Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
Genres Drama, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Philip Latham, Don Fellows, Nicholas Parsons, Toby Robins, Tessa Wyatt, Derren Nesbitt
Roles Helen Schlegel
Rating63%
Paul and Michelle (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Denis Amar, Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anicée Alvina, Keir Dullea, Georges Beller, Catherine Allégret, Ronald Lewis, Peter Graves
Rating57%
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison (Sean Bury) and Michelle Latour (Anicée Alvina) after they have been reunited. At the begining of the film Paul finishes prep school and he informs his father (Who he still hasn't forgiven for separating him from Michelle and their child.) that he plans to look for Michelle and now because he is a legal adult he can no longer stop him. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
Friends (1971)
, 1h41Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La provence
Actors Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis, Toby Robins, Pascale Roberts, Sady Rebbot, Joan Hickson
Roles Mrs. Gardner
Rating64%
In this teen romance, a neglected young English boy named Paul Harrison (Sean Bury) runs away and becomes a friend of a French girl named Michelle Latour (Anicée Alvina) on the same flight. Together, they go to an idyllic marsh location in France; specifically, the Camargue. There, they become lovers, set up housekeeping, have a baby, and play at being responsible adults. Along the way, both Paul and Michelle discover many of the troubles that can be involved with family life. Ultimately, however, police who have responded to a missing-persons report separate the two and, presumably, take their baby into protective custody.
The Naked Runner (1967)
, 1h41Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Edward Fox, Toby Robins, Nadia Gray
Roles Ruth
Rating59%
Sam Laker (Sinatra) is a former World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative who is recruited by his former commanding officer to do a mission whilst he attends a business conference in Leipzig. To insure his cooperation, his son is kidnapped.