Rex Robbins
Date of birth: 1935-03-30
Place of birth: Pierre, South Dakota, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Roger McNicol Robbins
Biography
Rex McNicol Robbins (March 30, 1935 – September 23, 2003) was an American character actor of stage and screen. He played the Narrator/Mysterious Man in the first national tour of Into the Woods. Robbins also portrayed Herbie in the first Broadway revival of Gypsy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rex Robbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Shaft
1971-06-23
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daught
The Day the Women Got Even
1980-12-04
Four suburban housewives, with a love for the theater, set out to foil an unscrupulous talent agent
Stella
1990-02-02
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fall
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1980-03-17
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a le
The Happy Lion
1990-01-01
Based on the book by Roger Duvoisin and Louise Fatio. A lion in a Paris zoo tries to return his frie
Max's Christmas
1988-12-25
Irrepressible Max wants to stay up late on Christmas so he can see Santa Claus.
Vampire's Kiss
1989-06-02
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He
The Man Who Wasn't There
1983-08-12
When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedd
The First Time
1983-07-13
A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981-04-06
A Confederate soldier (Pat Hingle) tells boys to kill a man (Edward Herrmann), whose ghost comes bac
The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
1970-01-01
Henrika, a cow who longs to see the city, gets her wish - and- more when she rides an old raft down
Simon
1980-02-01
A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experi
An Empire of Reason
1988-07-03
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constituti
1776
1972-11-09
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental r
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974-05-08
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently bruta
No Big Deal
1983-06-15
A school takes on a troublesome boy from juvenile hall, in order to try to help him settle back in t
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001-10-05
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children
Double Negative
1985-01-01
Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being dest
Muppets Magic from 'The Ed Sullivan Show!'
2003-01-01
Long before America came to appreciate the talents of Jim Henson and his brilliant creations, The Mu
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
1991-01-01
A wicked troll tries in vain to gobble up a family of goats when they go trip-trapping over his brid
The Tenth Month
1979-09-16
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist an
The Secret of My Success
1987-04-10
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, b
Running Out
1983-01-26
A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young da
I.Q.
1994-12-24
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pret
Breathing Room
1996-11-08
She's Kathy, a comix cartoonist; he's David, teaching English to new immigrants. It's New York City,
Stone Soup
1992-01-01
Stone Soup is an animated version of the classic 1947 children's book, "Stone Soup: An Old Tale" by
Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens
1991-09-01
When Winnie, who never reads, lifts off with a foxy stranger, sensible Harriet must use every ounce
The Pilgrims of Plimoth
1989-01-01
The arrival of the Pilgrims in the New World is chronicled in this dramatic reenactment of their dai
The Emperor's New Clothes
1990-01-01
An adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale
The Pigs' Wedding
1990-01-01
A short adaptation of the book by Helme Heine