Andrew Jordt Robinson was born in New York City and attended the University of New Hampshire, later receiving his B.A. in English from the New School for Social Research in NYC. After graduation, he spent a year in England at the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts on a Fulbright Scholarship. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Robinson ...
[on his role in Dirty Harry (1971)] If I had a buck for every guy, and it's always a guy by the way, who has come up to me and quoted that line in its entirety to me. ("I know what you're thinking... Well do ya, PUNK!") I gotta tell you, I'd be a rich man, now.
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You learn from your failures - at least I do. When things go right, you don't sit down and analyze them. But when something goes wrong, I sit and analyze and consider and get introspective. In personal life or professional, not succeeding teaches you more.
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[on writing his first Star Trek book] People were worried that somehow, by writing this book I was going to give up that mystery of Garak, and Garak now was going to be completely understood, but I think just the opposite happened.
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1990 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Aristocrats" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He was awarded the 1984 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for Distinguished Lead Performance for "In The Belly of the Beast" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
3
He was awarded the 1984 Drama Logue award for Outstanding Performance for "In The Belly of the Beast" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Heading up the new Acting MFA program at the University of Southern California. [2006]
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Divides his time between Paris -- where he lives with his wife -- and teaching at the University of Southern California's School of Theatre, where he is the Senior Lecturer and Director of M.F.A. Acting. [May 2008]
Wrote a novel about the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) character he played, Elim Garak, entitled "A Stitch in Time".
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Has an action figure made in his likeness of his character, Garak, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
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While it's tempting to make the connection, Andrew Robinson is not related to Edward G. Robinson. Andy's father died in WWII, when Andy was only three.
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Robinson's portrayal of the chilling Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry (1971) led to him receiving serious death threats via telephone after the film's release.
Almost got the part of Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) after first reading for the part. He was chosen for the recurring role of Elim Garak instead.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Question of Loyalty
2005
Short
Dr. Albert Krentz
JAG
1999-2004
TV Series
Admiral Thomas Kly
Without a Trace
2004
TV Series
Carl Monroe
The Practice
2004
TV Series
Edmond Solomon
Homeland Security
2004
TV Movie
Senator
The Making of Daniel Boone
2003
Timothy Flint
Presidio Med
2002
TV Series
Jesse
Earth and Beyond
2002
Video Game
Theodoric Cassel (voice, as Andy Robinson)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen
2000
Video Game
Elim Garak (voice)
Judging Amy
2000
TV Series
Daniel McGill
Profiler
2000
TV Series
Daniel Wade
Martial Law
2000
TV Series
Spencer
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993-1999
TV Series
Garak
Elim Garak
The X-Files
1999
TV Series
Dr. Ian Detweiler
The Sentinel
1999
TV Series
Robert Dunlop
The Pretender
1999
TV Series
Lieutenant Jenkins
Archibald the Rainbow Painter
1998
The Super Super
Nothing Sacred
1998
TV Series
Running Woman
1998
Captain Don Gibbs (as Andrew J. Robinson)
The Moravian Massacre
1996
Documentary
Newspaperman
Matt's Million
1996
TV Mini-Series
Kenneth
Wings
1995
TV Series
Michael Foster
Murder, She Wrote
1993-1994
TV Series
James Harris / Ambrose Griffith
M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994
TV Series
Solomon Box
The Puppet Masters
1994
Hawthorne
There Goes My Baby
1994
Frank
Demob
1993
TV Series
Paul
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
1993
Video
Sean Braddock
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
TV Series
Leo Cabe
Telling Secrets
1993
TV Movie
Dr. Phillip Eckhart
Law & Order
1992
TV Series
Phillip Marietta
Trancers III
1992
Video
Col. Daddy Muthuh
Criminal Behavior
1992
TV Movie
Spears
Matlock
1990-1991
TV Series
Frank Hayes / Stanley Hayden
Prime Target
1991
Commissioner
Child's Play 3
1991
Sergeant Botnick
Into the Badlands
1991
TV Movie
Sheriff Aaron Starett
L.A. Law
1991
TV Series
Gregory Edmonson
Fatal Charm
1990
Video
Sheriff Harry Childs
Appearances
1990
TV Movie
Mort
Rock Hudson
1990
TV Movie
Henry Willson
The Lady Forgets
1989
TV Movie
Andrew Simms
Moonlighting
1989
TV Series
Leslie Hunziger
Liberace
1988
TV Movie
Liberace
American Playhouse
1988
TV Series
Waples
Shoot to Kill
1988
Harvey
Desperate
1987
TV Movie
Seamus
The Verne Miller Story
1987
Pretty Boy Floyd
The Twilight Zone
1986-1987
TV Series
Mr. Williams (segment "Private Channel") / President John F. Kennedy (segment "Profile in Silver")
Hellraiser
1987
Larry
Cobra
1986
Detective Monte
Cagney & Lacey
1985-1986
TV Series
Mr. Nelson
Mask
1985
Doctor Vinton
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
TV Mini-Series
Jack Mallard
Matt Houston
1983-1985
TV Series
Jonathon Renfield
Not My Kid
1985
TV Movie
Doctor Royce
This Is the Life
1985
TV Series
The Rousters
1983
TV Series
The A-Team
1983
TV Series
Deputy Rance / Jackson
The Mississippi
1983
TV Series
Hart to Hart
1980-1983
TV Series
Mike Huntington / Mick Steele
The Dukes of Hazzard
1980-1982
TV Series
Pruitt / Billy Joe
The Greatest American Hero
1982
TV Series
Chris Stofford
Falcon Crest
1982
TV Series
Phil Eberhardt
Big Bend Country
1981
TV Movie
Beau (as Andy Robinson)
240-Robert
1981
TV Series
Wilson
Reward
1980
TV Movie
Frank Morella
Vega$
1980
TV Series
Derek Razzio
Barnaby Jones
1976-1980
TV Series
Robert Curtis / Phil Devine / Sonny Holland
Young Maverick
1980
TV Series
Sangree
Insight
1978-1979
TV Series
Barry Doral
Mrs. Columbo
1979
TV Series
Mitchell
CHiPs
1979
TV Series
Bill Clayton
From Here to Eternity
1979
TV Mini-Series
Sgt. Maylon Stark
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
TV Series
McTieg
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
TV Series
Greg Chandler
The Incredible Hulk
1978
TV Series
Dr. Stan Rhodes
Kojak
1975-1978
TV Series
Roger Layton / Leon
Ryan's Hope
1976-1978
TV Series
Frank Ryan
The Streets of San Francisco
1975-1977
TV Series
Ron Maguire / Archie Kimbro
Once an Eagle
1976
TV Mini-Series
Reb Rayburne
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
TV Series
Willie Norman
Bert D'Angelo/Superstar
1976
TV Series
S.W.A.T.
1976
TV Series
Edward Stillman
Doctors' Hospital
1975
TV Series
Mackintosh and T.J.
1975
Coley
Harry O
1975
TV Series
Jim Bracken
A Woman for All Men
1975
Steve McCoy (as Andy Robinson)
The Drowning Pool
1975
Pat Reavis (as Andy Robinson)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1975
TV Series
Shipping Clerk
Someone I Touched
1975
TV Movie
Frank Berlin (as Andy Robinson)
The Rookies
1972-1974
TV Series
Billy Kempson / Lee Borden
The Family Kovack
1974
TV Movie
Butch Kovack
House of Evil
1974
TV Movie
Ironside
1974
TV Series
David Cutter
Kung Fu
1974
TV Series
Johnny Walker
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1974
TV Series
Chris Bakewell
The New Perry Mason
1974
TV Series
Vic Brandt
Chase
1974
TV Series
Paul Kendra
Incident at Vichy
1973
TV Movie
Major (as Andy Robinson)
Charley Varrick
1973
Harman Sullivan (as Andy Robinson)
Bonanza
1972
TV Series
John Harper
The Catcher
1972
TV Movie
Andy Hendricks
Dirty Harry
1971
Killer (as Andy Robinson)
N.Y.P.D.
1969
TV Series
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Judging Amy
2001-2005
TV Series 7 episodes
Star Trek: Voyager
1997-1998
TV Series 2 episodes
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1996
TV Series 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015
Documentary
Himself
Mr. Cotton, I Presume?
2009
Video documentary short
Himself
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
Dirty Harry: The Original
2001
Video documentary short
Himself (as Andy Robinson)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
2009
TV Series documentary
Larry
Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation
2001
Video documentary
Larry / Frank Cotton (Hellraiser)
Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge
1995
Video Game
Sheriff Sean Braddock (as Andy Robinson)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988
Larry Cotton
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2003
Feature Film Award
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival