Robert Lindsay (born 13 December 1949) is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles in Citizen Smith, My Family, and Hornblower.
Lindsay was born Robert Lindsay Stevenson in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of Norman and Joyce Stevenson. After leaving school, Lindsay enrolled in the drama department of a technical college in Nottingham, and intended to become a drama teacher. However, friends at Nottingham Play...
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Robert Lindsay (born 13 December 1949) is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles in Citizen Smith, My Family, and Hornblower.
Lindsay was born Robert Lindsay Stevenson in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of Norman and Joyce Stevenson. After leaving school, Lindsay enrolled in the drama department of a technical college in Nottingham, and intended to become a drama teacher. However, friends at Nottingham Playhouse encouraged him to apply to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and in 1968 he was accepted there with the aid of a government grant. After he graduated, he took a job as a dialect coach for a repertory company in Essex, and then joined a regional theatre group.
Lindsay first came to prominence as the cockney layabout Jakey Smith in ITV comedy series Get Some In!, and he appeared in the fourth series of the BBC sitcom The Good Life. He was then given the starring role as incompetent revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the BBC sitcom Citizen...
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