Jay Robinson, born April 14, 1930 in New York, is an American actor specialising in character roles. April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ...

Robinson began his acting career in summer stock and repertory companies and he made his way to the Broadway stage where he appeared in Shakespeare's As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing. Summer Stock is an MGM musical made in 1950. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Scene from As you like it, Francis Hayman, c. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ...

His first film role was as the Emperor Caligula in The Robe (1953), which he reprised in Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954). This was followed by roles in The Virgin Queen (1955) starring Bette Davis, and My Man Godfrey (1957) with David Niven and June Allyson. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from 37 to 41. ... The Robe, a 1942 historical novel featuring the Crucifixion, written by Lloyd C. Douglas. ... Demetrius and the Gladiators was a 1954 drama film that was a sequel to The Robe. ... The Virgin Queen is a 1955 historical drama film starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall and Dan OHerlihy. ... Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre. ... My Man Godfrey is a screwball comedy film released in 1936 by Universal Pictures. ... David Niven portrayed the original Sir James Bond in the 007 spoof Casino Royale James David Graham Niven (David Niven) (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983), was an Academy Award-winning English actor. ... June Allyson June Allyson (born October 7, 1917) is an American actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. ...

His career took a downward turn when in 1958 he was arrested for possession of narcotics and sentenced to a year in jail. He could not get work in Hollywood and was forced to take whatever work he could. Spending most of the next 13 years out of work, he was rescued by Bette Davis, who insisted that Robinson be cast in an important role in her 1971 feature Bunny O'Hare. Robinson made a slow, steady comeback in supporting parts in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972), and Warren Beatty's Shampoo (1975). In the 80s, he appeared in made-for-video films of Macbeth (1981), Othello (1981) and Richard II (1982). He continued to act into the 1990s, and was seen as Vincent in 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1997, he proved an ideal host for the TV series Beyond Bizarre (1997). The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a comedy film (1972) written and directed by Woody Allen, consisting of a series of short sequences inspired by the book of the same name. ... Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. ... Shampoo is a 1975 motion picture directed by Hal Ashby, and starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, and Lee Grant. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer This article is on Shakespeares play, for other meanings see Macbeth (disambiguation). ... Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) Othello: The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by Shakespeare written around 1603. ... Richard II may refer to: King Richard II of England Richard II, a play by William Shakespeare about the king Richard II of Normandy This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bram Stokers Dracula is a 1992 horror/romance film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ...

Robinson married twice: Pauline Flowers from 1960 until her death (2002), Gloria Casas (2004 - present).

External links

Jay Robinson at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, video games and production crew personnel. ...

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