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Robin Hawdon is an English playwright and novelist, with previous additional careers as actor and theatre director. He is best known for his stage comedies and novels.
He made many TV appearances, in particular in the series Compact (BBC), The Flying Swan (BBC), Spasms (co-star with Jonathan Pryce - Thames TV) and Chalk and Cheese, (co-star with Michael Crawford - Thames TV 1977). He appeared in a number of films, including The Day the Earth Caught Fire, We Joined the Navy, Bedazzled (1967), Zeta One (star) ( The Love Factor in the USA) (1969), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (star) (1970), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Episode 26 – The Smile Behind the Veil as Grant (1970), The Howerd Confessions, as P.C.Trimble, Burke & Hare (1971) and I Want What I Want (1972).
He was scheduled by the James Bond producers to film test for the role, but the test was cancelled when Roger Moore finally accepted the part.
Subsequently, a number of comedies played regularly on tour and internationally, many being published by Samuel French and Josef Weinberger. These were followed by his farce Don't Dress for Dinner (loosely based on a French play by Marc Camoletti) which ran for six years in London and subsequently on Broadway, and plays regularly in theatres around the English speaking world.
The rights to most of the published plays are owned by Hawdon's company, Hawdon Productions Ltd (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00949732)
Hawdon's comedy Birthday Suite has played on and off for over thirty-five years across Europe, as it was first played in 1983 at the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham. His comedy Shady Business played in Paris for five months at the Michodière Theatre. His most globally performed comedy, with several hundred productions across thirty countries, is Perfect Wedding
His straight play, God And Stephen Hawking, based on Stephen Hawking’s life and his best-selling book A Brief History of Time, toured the UK in 2000 starring Robert Hardy and Stephen Boxer.
He has written several novels, notably A Rustle In The Grass (Hutchinson), and Survival Of The Fittest (2013). 9781625166173, Strategic Book. ISBN 9781625166173 (Strategic Publishing). 'Number Ten' political thriller short-listed for the International Thriller Prize
His memoir Almost Famous (2021) was published on Amazon.
Among his latest stage comedies are Stage Fright and A Night in Provence. Stage Fright is also known as Coup de Grace and in the United States as Diamonds and Divas. The comedy was premiered in Germany, in 2017 and later played in Australia and Canada.
A Night in Provence premiered in Germany and United Kingdom and later played in Zürich, Switzerland and Massachusetts, United States.
He was married to actress and psychoanalyst Sheila Davies who died in October 2024, and with whom he has two daughters.
Hawdon lives between Bath, the Southern France, and Australia.
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