Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He wrote and directed the cult classic Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town.\n', '

As an actor, he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli (on whom he based the character of Uncle Monty in Withnail and I) playing Benvolio in Zeffirelli\'s Romeo and Juliet, Ken Russell and François Truffaut.\n', '

Bruce Robinson was born in London. He grew up in Broadstairs, Kent, where he attended the Charles Dickens Secondary Modern School. His parents were Mabel Robinson and American lawyer Carl Casriel, who had a short-term relationship during World War II. His father was a Lithuanian Jew. As a child, Robinson was constantly brutally abused by his stepfather Rob (an ex RAF navigator and a wholesale newsagent), who knew the boy wasn\'t his son.\n', 'He had an elder sister Elly, whom he asked to teach him some French.\n', '

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