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Also known as Joseph Robinson

English actor (1927-2017)

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Within Vinony's link graph, Joe Robinson is referenced by 39 other articles, and connects out to professional wrestling, judo and karate.

It sits within the topics 1927 births, 2017 deaths and 20th-century English sportsmen.

Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works
9

Top works

  • Where Will You Plant Your Seeds?
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  • Guiding Light
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Film & TV

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler. He made his film debut in 1955's "A Kid for Two Farthings", in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic "The Loneliness of the Long Distance…

Known for

  • Fear Factor2001
  • Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' — Self2000
  • Double-O Stunts2000
  • Diamonds Are Forever — Peter Franks1971
  • Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat — Self1971
  • Theatre 625 — Arkwright Son1964
  • Thor and the Amazon Women — Thor1963
  • Taur the Mighty — Taurus1963
  • Doctor in Distress — Sonja's Boyfriend1963
  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — Roach1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1946-08-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
16,363
Total plays
149,611

Tags

jazz guitarguitarfingerstyleacousticfingerstyle guitar

Joe Robinson plays guitar like Ali boxed, like Einstein knew theoretical physics and like Hitchcock made movies. If the chipper twenty-year-old from backwoods Temagog, New South Wales, Australia were two or three times his age, his sheer six-string ability and compositional insight, which have already earned Robinson a world-wide following, would be no less astonishing. That fact is underscored by his winning TV’s Australia’s Got Talent in 2008, and the Australian National Songwriting Competiti

via Last.fm · Joe Robinson

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Robinson
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Newcastle upon Tyne
Place of death
Brighton
Occupation
businessperson
Languages spoken
English language
Sport
judo
Image
Joe Robinson.jpg
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cause of death
dementia
date of birth
1927-05-31
Commons category
Joe Robinson (actor)
date of death
2017-07-03
start of work period
1952-00-00
manner of death
natural causes
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