I trained as an actor at City Lit, École Philippe Gaulier, and abroad.
I have appeared in the films Portobello Road, Memoirs of an Actor, Jack Says, See it Through, Delivery, Gold Fever, Revolver, Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
I have been on TV in Seconds From Disaster: King's Cross Fire (National Geographic), Mummy Autopsy (Discovery), Dark Justice (Lorimar) and in 118 118 Rocky, Renault Clio Graffiti and Toshiba commercials.
In the theatre, I have done Romeo & Juliet, Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid, Comedy of Errors, Pinter's Victoria Station – “cleverly presented” Three Weeks, “a really different experience even for Edinburgh” British Theatre Guide – The Fire Raisers – “strikingly fresh, biting production” The Independent – and Alma at Leeds City Varieties.
I have modelled for Getty Images, Gateway Computers and Merck.
I have also been paid to hang around in an art gallery installation for 6 hr all in purple and with a purple whole-head mask!
See my Comedy CV at www.comedycv.co.uk/robertallwood
I have lived in Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona, and speak/write/understand Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Italian and Catalan.
Through my language skills I am a translator, also ex-Deputy Editor of a U.S. newspaper.

Film includes
Black Tower Films Portobello Road dir Benedykt Zasadzki - Leon Kowalsky
Emery Fletcher Films Crunch Time Wedding dir Peter Emery - Vicar
Underground Films: Memoirs of an Actor dir James Esposito - Vicar
Candyfloss + RazorBlades: The Invisibles dir Tim Spencer - Interviewer
Zed Resistor Company/Leke Adebayo Hot Stuff Part 2 dir Alexander Fodor - Dodgy Businessman
Exploding Cinema: Because of the War dir Jennet Thomas - The Yellow Man (lead)
Press On Features: Jack Says dir Bob Phillips - Club Customer
Fire in the Hole: See it Through dir Rick Roberts - German Soldier
Bountycolors: Getting Home dir Jasminka Letzas - Mike
Girl and a Gun Productions: Essayette dir Beatriz Martinez-Gatell - Ballet critic
Jalapeno: Delivery dir Nikhil Jani - Burnt Out Boss
Trasbals: Gold Fever dir Gonzalo Herralde - Event guest, bar customer
Columbia: Revolver dir Gary Nelson - Nightclub guest
Villealfa: Helsinki Napoli All Night Long dir Mika Kaurismaki Tourist
TV
Darlow Smithson/National Geographic: Seconds From Disaster: King's Cross Fire dir Jan Klimkowski- Keith Moodie
Atlantic/Discovery Channel: Mummy Autopsy dir Tom Pollock Naval surgeon
Lorimar: Dark Justice dir Ramy Zada - Hotel concierge
Music videos
Gloria Cycles Chancer dir Alex White - Drunk Driver
Commercials
Partizan: 118 118 Rocky dir Jim Hosking Male nurse
Tesauro: Renault Clio Graffiti dir Joseph Palau - Harassed carer
Voiceover
Giggler: The Rainstick dir Nicola Lee - Narrator
Theatre
Leeds City Varieties: Alma dir Martin Riley - Anumah
Acción Rambla: Inaugurations dir Johnny Melville - Señor Váldez
Docklands: (site specific) Provisions dir Nic Sandiland & Andrew Downs - performer (earthworks)
Chats Palace Hackney Scrooge! dir Tom Beauchamp & Becca Chester - Ghost of Christmas Past, Want
Southside, Edinburgh: Comedy of Errors dir Kevin Piper - Egeon, Angelo, Pinch
Lion & Unicorn/Rose & Crown: Me and Billy Joe McAllister dir Amy Jeavons Pa
Battersea Arts Centre: The Fire Raisers dir Orla O’Loughlin - Doctor of Philosophy
camden peoples theatre: Dressing Down dir William Foley - Uncle Victor
C venues, Edinburgh: Victoria Station (Pinter) dir Dimitar Nedkov - Driver
Arcola: Scene 13: get stuffed dir Sidsel Bech (behaviourLab) Authoritarian Man
Henry Moore Sculpture Park: Pieces Of People (rule-based) dir Gary Stevens person
Middlesex University: Night's Wedding dir Hilary Preston Usher
Rada (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts): Picaresque dir Alan Morrison - Johnny Bong, Red Squirrel
Lion & Unicorn/Act Provocateur Int: The Imaginary Invalid dir Victor Sobchak - Thomas Diafoirus
British Touring Shakespeare : Romeo & Juliet dir Una Buckley - Montague
Abbeyfest, Merton Abbey Mills: Desperate Thespians dir Tony O’Brien - Brigit
Laban: The Alien dir/chor Henrietta Hale - Pramanick
Phoenix Theatre: Yabbok dir Elliott Tucker - Shopkeeper, Dr. Birnbaum
Hen & Chickens: Susanna dir Alan Marni - Mr Andrew
Cockpit Theatre: REDURTNINTERIOR dir Alan Marni - Father
Matts Gallery: ALL SUFFERING Soon To End dir Jennet Thomas - Purple Preacher
Other Activities
Music jams (voice & some percussn), eg The Gathering w/Maggie Nicols & Phil Minton. Choirs eg Feral Choir at Tate. Dance. Photography – eg Sound of Water exhbn on Bar & Co. Comedy. Writing. Translator & text editor, ex-Deputy Editor of U.S. newspaper European Press Survey. Ex-Arts Council live art reviewer. Lived in Spain, Germany, Netherlands. Translator. Helped in texts for Sanctus - the Profaned Body at ICA.
My Weird and Wonderful London events mailout.
Interests
Festivals. Contemp classical, contemp jazz & world music. Alternative cabaret, performce poetry. Pubs. History. London’s rivers. Facebook, for events & philosopho-comic repartee!
Skills
Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Catalan & Italian. Physical theatre, bass voice, d/licence, swimming, contact impro, corporeal expression, movement, living sculpture. Meditation, yoga, tai chi.

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