Tim F Robbins

Tim Robbins

• Birth Name Timothy Francis Robbins
• Biography Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (I). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he g...
  
• Write biography Ray Hamel
  
• Other Work "Slick Slack Griff Graff" (1985 play with Adam Simon)
  "Carnage: A Comedy" (play with Adam Simon)
  Tim Robbins. _Cradle Will Rock: The Movie and the Moment._ New York:Newmarket Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55704-399X
  (July 2002): Portrayed Nick in the play "The Guys" by Anne Nelson (I)(TheActors' Gang, Hollywood, California, USA).
  Appeared in the play "Carnage: A Comedy" with Adam Simon (I)
  Appeared in the play "Slick Slack Griff Graff" with Adam Simon (I)
  
• Personal quotes [On his screenwriting] "I always write from an actor's perspective,which is writing dialogue that fits comfortably into one's mouth, asopposed to dialogue that is strained and defective."
  A movie script is a malleable entity when you're shooting and should beable to become different things and should be able to be rewritten atthe last minute.
  I'm fairly competent as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as awriter. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to takecriticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a mast...
  We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes andmisdemeanors of the president of the United States. Clinton lied abouta blow job, and got impeached by the media and Congress. B...
  I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper.
  Hollywood is full of closet Republicans, and also you're sometimes notsure who your friends are. When the whole Bull Durham (1988)controversy happened there were three people who came very vociferousl...
  
• Portrayed in Team America: World Police (2004)
  
• Interview "MAD" (Belgium), 6 July 2005, pg. 3, by: Philippe Manche, "Tim Robbins : "D'un coup, votre vie bascule""
  "Premiere" (USA), 1 November 2003, Vol. 17, Iss. 3, pg. 124, by: Brantley Bardin, "Idol Chatter"
  "T2 (Times supplement)" (UK), 21 October 2003, pg. 14-15, by: Andrew Billen, "Mounting a Charm Counter-Offensive"
  "Hot Tickets Evening Standard" (UK), 21 April 2000, pg. 2+3, by: Marianne Gray, "Rockin' Robbins"
  "The Times Magazine" (UK), 8 April 2000, Vol. 15, Iss. 5, pg. 12-16, by: Martyn Palmer, "The misfit"
  "The Nation" (USA), 5 April 1999, Vol. 268, Iss. 13, pg. 13-14+16-18+20, by: Peter Biskind, Carl Bromley, and Jon Wiener, "On Movies, Money & Politics: Beatty, Baldwin, Glover, Robbins, Stone and Lear"
  
• Article "AARP: The Magazine" (USA), September 2008, Vol. 51, Iss. 5, pg. 104, by: Monica Hesse, "The Big 5-Oh: Tim Robbins"
  "Moving Pictures Magazine" (USA), June 2006, Vol. June/July, Iss. 11, pg. 33, by: Eric Kohn, "Movie Icon to Politician"
  "The Washington Post" (USA), 28 June 2005, Vol. 128, Iss. 205, pg. C1+C4, by: Jennifer Frey, "Tim Robbins's Antiwar Zone: 'War of the Worlds' Is Science Fiction, But Terror Isn't An Alien Concept"
  "G2 (Guardian supplement)" (UK), 31 March 2004, pg. 11, by: Audrey Gillan, "Sleeping with the enemy"
  "Parade" (USA), 8 February 2004, pg. 20, by: Tom Seligson, "'You Have The Right To Speak Your Mind'"
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 6 February 2004, Vol. 1, Iss. 749, pg. 58-59, by: Jeff Jensen, "Best Supporting Actor 2004: Tim Robbins"
  
• Pictorial "Playboy" (USA), October 1998, Vol. 45, Iss. 10, pg. 180, by: Robert Matheu, "Grapevine"
  "Playboy" (USA), November 1989, Vol. 36, Iss. 11, pg. 133, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1989"
  "Playboy" (USA), February 1989, Vol. 36, Iss. 2, pg. 138, by: staff, "The Year in Sex 1988"
  "Playboy" (USA), November 1988, Vol. 35, Iss. 11, pg. 135, by: Bruce Williamson, "Sex In Cinema 1988"
  
• Cover Photo "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 12 March 2004, Iss. 755
  "Hot Tickets Evening Standard" (UK), 21 April 2000
  "GQ" (USA), October 1992
  "Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 26 June 1992
  "Film Comment" (USA), May 1992, Vol. 28, Iss. 3
  
• Filmography

  Cinema Verite (2012) Drama

  Keeper of the Pinstripes (2012) Sport

  Green Lantern (2011) Sci-Fi

  City of Ember (2008) Sci-Fi

  Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2010) Music

  Noise (2007/II) Crime

  The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010) (TV)

  The Lucky Ones (2008) War

  The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Crime

  BCN aixeca el teló (2009) (TV)