Robin began his career more than 40 years ago in Liverpool and has subsequently appeared in repertory throughout the UK. He made his West End debut, in 1969, in Eric Porter's production of My Little Boy My Big Girl. He went on to play Rusty in the original series of Crossroads and was a member of both the BBC Radio Drama Company and the BBC Schools Radio Drama Company. During the 1980s he spent three years with Channel 4 as a continuity announcer before resuming his acting career as a member of the Peter Hall company, firstly in The Rose Tattoo with Julie Walters and Ken Stott and then playing Phipps in An Ideal Husband, in the West End and subsequently on tour in the UK and abroad.
Other West End appearances include Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage at the Fortune Theatre and Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife at the Apollo and Lyric theatres. In the subsequent national tour of this classic, he played Mortimer Durham. At the National Theatre in 2001 he played the Reverend Colin Mallow in Alan Ayckbourn's production of House and Garden. In 2005 he appeared as Le Beau and Sir Oliver Martext in Peter Hall's production of As You Like It, which played to packed houses in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 2006 he was seen as Winston Churchill's butler William Evans in the Edinburgh Festival production of Mary Kenny's play Allegiance, which starred Mel Smith and Michael Fassbender. At the Arcola Theatre Robin played Morten Kiil in Mehmet Ergen's critically acclaimed production of Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People, with Greg Hicks as Dr Stockman. He also appeared in a trio of roles in Terry Johnson's production of End Of The Rainbow which premiered at the Royal Theatre Northampton in February 2010.
His television credits include Z Cars, Crossroads, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Macbeth, Outside Edge (the TV film), Hammer House of Horror, Public Eye, Wycliffe, Grange Hill, The Upper Hand, Peter Hall's TV film The Final Passage, The Hunter And The Hunted, Judge John Deed, Panorama: The Hutton Inquiry and Little Britain.
Robin was associate producer of the world premiere of the musical Bon Voyage, written by Nathanial and Alex Waugh and winner of the Vivienne Ellis award.
He lectured in Broadcasting at Middlesex University and for seven years taught radio technique at Mountview.
He is the co-founder of The Harry Partnership LLP, a communications skills company specialising in the training of medical professionals. Married with three sons, he lives in North London.