Career
At Cambridge he acted with the Marlowe Society, appearing in Peer Gynt , Tamburlaine and The Lady of Pleasure . He is probably best known for his Geordie character Joe Kirkley in British cult action-horror Dog Soldiers . He has also acted in the films Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow , playing a German-speaking porter, and as a hard-hitting soldier, Stevie Millar, in the film Doomsday .
Robson has also had several prominent television roles, namely playing a cowardly German in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers , being Wernher von Braun's right-hand man, Dieter Huzel, in Space Race, and playing Matt Perry, a dad of 3 unruly girls, in Tracey Beaker Returns.
Additional television work includes The Ghost Squad , Doctors , The Real Albert Goering and Looking Good.
His stage work is varied and includes the role of Meslis in Neil Bartlett’s production of The Dispute, this Royal Shakespeare Company show won a Time out Award for Best production in the West End and the 1999 TMA Best Touring Production award. Robson has also played Adonis in the 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo at the Lyric Hammersmith, a Geordie in Lost and Found at the Hackney Empire and taken the lead of John O’Brien in a national tour of Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen Streets.
Further theatre credits are playing Dickens in a joint Cardboard Citizens and Artangel project, which Robson also directed, playing a Welsh stowaway in Measuring Wings at the Etcetera, Orlando in As You Like It , Viola in Twelfth Night , Ross in Macbeth , Hans Rilow in Spring Awakenings and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet .
He now works at a School in South London known as Sutton Grammar School
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