Ken Robertson

Birth : , Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK

History

Kenneth Robertson was born in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. After leaving school he moved to London to join a touring theatre company that performed throughout Britain. He later trained as a teacher of Art and Drama but continued being an actor and did an MA in Theatre Performance at Goldsmith's College, London. As an actor he has worked in Children's theatre, The Young Vic. Community Theatre, Fringe Theatre, London's West End, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheek By Jowl as well as many TV series/plays and film.

Movies

Strip Jack Naked
Jim
Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film "Nighthawks" (1978).
Kremlin Farewell
Pauker
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Flash Gordon
Special Movement
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Nighthawks
Jim
A gay teacher is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night, in Great Britain in the 1970s, not mixing his professional and private life, until the day comes when his students and his headmaster find out.