Robinson married his wife, Irene, in 1970. He performed in theater throughout the 1960s and began acting in television in the latter part of the decade. After graduation, however, he turned his focus to theater and drama, having spent a year performing at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts in England following award of a Fulbright Scholarship. Robinson then re-enrolled in college and graduated from The New School for Social Research with a BA in English. (Shuttlepod Episode 202: "Especially the Lies" with Andrew Robinson) Robinson would later state that his opposition to the Vietnam War was as a direct result of what he saw as the senseless and unnecessary death of his father during World War II. He eventually graduated and attended college in New Hampshire, before dropping out after becoming involved in anti-Vietnam protests on campus. Robinson was involved in juvenile delinquency in his youth, including an incident where he attempted to steal a car, leading to a sympathetic judge and social worker sending him to a religious preparatory school, rather than juvenile hall. Robinson, an only child, along with his mother then moved in with his grandfather who was a career tool and die maker. Robinson's mother subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown which devolved into alcoholism. Army as a paratrooper and was killed in late 1944/early 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge. ![]() His father, who was an Ivy league educated university graduate, had enlisted in the U.S. Andrew Robinson was born in New York City in 1942, during the Second World War.
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