Tony Robinson (innate August 15, 1946) is a British television comedy actor and political campaigner. He is presenter of the popular archaeology television series, Time Team, & similar archaeologic and historical programmes.

Innate around London, his first sales person acting case come at a age of xii, once he appeared as a member of Fagin's gang in the original production of the musical Oliver!, including a stint when a Artful Fox.

In the early 1970s he starred in Kids's fantasy/comedy programme Sam In Boff's Isl&, all about the human world health organization lessens asleep when eating his breakfast cereal and terminates higher transported to an island which looks good prefer his cereal. Fallowing existence a portion of the Who Dares Wins comedy performers, he came to prominence for his role in the British situation comedy Blackadder as Edmund Blackadder's disgusting human-servant/batman Baldrick. In the 1st series he was quite intelligent however later on his character evolved into that of an intellectually challenged buffoon. His catch phrase in this programme was, "I have a cunning plan".

In the 1980s he also wrote & narrated many Jackanory-style children's software download - although sir thomas more energetically than a Jackanory home style, by owning Robinson bounding just about a place acting out all the area. Software therein style involved ''Tales From Fat Tulip's Garden (continued in Fat Tulip Too), Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All (a retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey), and Blood and Honey (tales from the Old Testament, filmed on location in Palestine).

In the late eighties he created the comedy TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men'', a free retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in which he appeared as a Sheriff of Nottingham.

Until 2000, he was vice-president of the actors' union Equity. Since allowing, he has been elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.

Around 2004 Robinson presented the Channel 4 television programme The Worst Jobs around History, re-enacting occasionally of the further atrocious jobs of the retiring millennium. He so took a indicate on a road as much as the united states along using an autobiographical wonder & guide session.

''Tony Robinson's Cunning Nighttime Out, the largely makeshift stage indicate, followed within early 2005 and included the mix of the numerous themes from either his career for which Robinson is far-famed. He besides presented The Real Da Vinci Code'', the docudrama for Channel Four's Weird Globe series which examined (& largely debunked) a claims manufactured by Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code.

Additionally to telling his have stories, Tony narrated a abridged audio book versions of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. (Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs narrated the unabridged versions.)

He was too active in the [http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/ "Make Poverty History"] campaign in a period of early 2005, leading-as much as the G8 summit in Scotland.

Selected Filmography
Brannigan (1975) - Messenger The Neverending Story III (1994) - Engywook (male gnome) Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999) - Sod-Off Baldrick/Baldrickus Faeries (1999) - Broom (voice)