Robinson was chosen to appear as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" during his third year of drama school and acted in several films--notably "The Story of Adele H." (1975), as Lieutenant Pinson--before giving up performing in 1975 to concentrate on writing.
It took ten years and 20 screenplays before Robinson's work reached the screen, in the shape of the Oscar-winning "The… See Full Bruce Robinson Biography