Michael Robbins

While working as a cashier for Lloyds Bank he not only ran his own amateur theatre group but he was a member of a number of others. With spending all his free time associated with theatre which he enjoyed more than the bank he gave up the bank and auditioned for the Old Vic Theatre School but it closed two weeks later. He made his acting debut with the Gateway Theatre Club in Bayswater, London. In 1954 he joined the Manchester Library Theatre as assistant stage manager for a year. He returned the following year as an actor then joined Sir Barry Jackson's company at the Birmingham Reportary Theatre for 4 years