Robin Stewart

Robin Stewart is an English actor who is best known for playing Mike Abbott in the 1970s sitcom Bless This House.

He acted on television and in feature films in both the UK and Australia. Some of his British film roles include The Haunted House of Horror as Henry, and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires as Leyland Van Helsing.

He played the main role of Mike Abbott in sit-com series Bless This House during its entire 1971–76 run; due to prior commitments he did not feature in the film version of the series. After being asked to go to New Zealand for a telethon and subsequently taken back to host his own show, Stewart ended up being asked to relocate where he became involved with such soaps as The Young Doctors as a villanous character trying to silence a blind patient who had overheard his criminal acts, and Sons and Daughters as the villanous doctor Ross Newman.^[1]

Other roles in Australia included a lead role in sex comedy feature film Pacific Banana (1981), and an appearance in prison based soap opera Punishment He was also one of the main characters in A Timeless Land, playing the role of John MacArthur. He played one of the supporting roles in the rock series Sweat and Sour for ABC; co-hosted Good Morning Sydney with Maureen Duval. Briefly he was the advertizing executive for Rolling Stone magazine and hosted, produced and co-hosted Midweek Live for DDQ TV. For 18 months Stewart was the senior producer for FNQTV in Cairns.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• Un bruit qui rend fou ..... Client Blu Villa, 1995
• Get Crazy ..... Nada Band, 1983
• Pacific Banana ..... Paul, 1981
• Rembrandt ..... Titus, 1980 (TV)
• Adventures of a Private Eye ..... Scott, 1977
• Sextet ..... Bernie, 1976
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ..... Leyland Van Helsing, 1974
• Cromwell ..... The Prince Of Wales, 1970
• The Haunted House of Horror ..... Henry, 1969
• Be My Guest ..... Jim Matthews, 1965
• Tamahine ..... Fiend, 1963
• H.M.S. Defiant A.k.a. Damn the Defiant ..... Midshipman Pardoe, 1962
• Masters of Venus ..... Jim, 1962
• Vice Versa ..... Tipping, 1961 ^[2]

References

External links

• Robin Stewart at the Internet Movie Database
• Robin Stewart Project: official website