DEAD MAN WALKING (Gramercy)
Robbins captured 1992 Best Actor Honors at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe Award for his compelling portrait of a Hollywood studio shark in Robert Altman's The Player. The same year, he also won critical acclaim for his role in the irreverent satire Bob Roberts, his feature directorial debut for which he also wrote the screenplay and the film's musical lyrics. The film played at the directors fortnight at Cannes, and won awards at the Belgium, Boston and Tokyo Film Festivals. The son of folk singer Gil Robbins, Robbins grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. At 19, he ventured West, attending UCLA, where his studies led to the formation of the Los Angeles theater company, The Actor's Gang. As founding member and the group's Artistic Director, he staged many productions including Ubu The King, Violence, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan for which he earned a Best Director nomination from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. In feature films, Robbins has created a memorable gallery of characters, including the resourceful convict in The Shawshank Redemption and the philandering L.A. cop in Short Cuts, the tortured Vietnam veteran in Jacob's Ladder and the eccentric minor-league pitching phenomenon in Bull Durham. Robbins' independent company Havoc Inc. has recently begun a production deal with Working Title Films and Polygram Filmed Entertainment. |
Tim Robbins directs from his own screen adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's critically acclaimed book, DEAD MAN WALKING.
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