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Charles Knox
Robinson
Voice of
Hank Murray,
various
Charles Robinson is best known on
Adventures in Odyssey as his role as comedic nemesis
Hank Murray. Charles Robinson graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and magna cum laude from Princeton in 1958. His
theatrical family opened his acting career at age three
on Broadway. After college his first film was "Splendor
in the Grass," to be followed by "The Singing Nun,"
"Shenandoah" and "Take Her, She's Mine." After "Tall
Story," "The Pleasure of His Company" and "The Good
Soup" all on Broadway, plus an army hitch, he and Mrs.
Robinson set up house in Los Angeles--close to film work
and his television appearances on, for instance,
"Laramie," "The Alfred Hitchcock Show" and "Bachelor
Father." He appeared in the 2001 Palm Canyon Theatre
Productions Arsenic and Old Lace and "The Man Who Came
to Dinner." His life-long entertainment career included
his talents as an award-winning playwright, singer,
songwriter, musician, linguist and magician. He and his
wife, Joan, established the Torchlight Project, which
had as its purpose aiding, empowering, and enriching the
lives of impoverished and abandoned children in many
foreign countries. He was a member of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild,
AFTRA, Equity, Playwrights/Dramatists Guild and the
Magic Castle.
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